Mitigating tsunami risk with early warning systems

This paper outlines the opportunities and challenges to improve end-to-end flood early warning systems, considering the scientific, technical and institutional/governance dimensions. Kenya and the wider East African region suffer from significant flo...

Disasters such as this earthquake in Haiti have severe psychosocial consequences. The emotional wounds may be less visible than the destruction of homes and physical infrastructure, but it often takes far longer to recover from the emotional and psyc...

This is the presentation by Andreas Schaffhauser on 30 September, 2020, at the CAP Implementation Workshop hosted by ITU as a video conference.