26 May 2016
The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre has developed a ‘Data Sculpture’ that they exhibited at the Understanding Risk Forum held in Venice in May 2016. The sculpture shows the history of water volume flows along the Mono river in Togo ...
Tags: Awareness material, Early Warning Systems, Public Awareness and Public Education
29 Jul 2015
Since 2008, an average of 26.4 million people have been displaced from their homes each year by disasters brought on by natural hazards- equivalent to one person displaced every second. The time is opportune to ensure the causes and consequences of t...
Tags: Report
24 Dec 2014
The earthquake that struck just south of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010 led to the loss of more than 220,000 lives, over 310,000 injuries and extensive damage to the city’s buildings and infrastructure. In June 2010, the British R...
Tags: Report, Earthquake, Post-Disaster Recovery, Supporting Sustainable Livelihoods, Urban Risk Reduction