01 Apr 2014
Case studies of VCAs undertaken in Saint Lucia, 2006-2010. The locations include: Desbarras; Forestière; Babonneau; Ti’ Rocher.
Tags: Report
17 Mar 2015
This 2014 annual report is a mid-term report on the UNISDR 2014-2015 Biennium Work Programme. 2014 was a year in which much time was spent defining the future of disaster risk management. There were major gatherings around the world to weigh up the e...
Tags: Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
26 Nov 2014
An 8.6 magnitude earthquake struck 437km off the coast of Indonesia’s Banda Aceh on Wednesday, sparking a tsunami alert across the Indian Ocean region. The quake provided a test for the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART) earl...
Tags: Video, Early Warning Systems, Earthquake, Tsunami