13 Sep 2014
Article about a model developed in Japan to predict people’s movement patterns after disaster events. The model is based on a study of travel patterns after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 based on GPS data from mobile phones users. The...
Tags: Research, Earthquake, Mobile Technology
13 Apr 2015
Proyecto Resiliencia en las Américas (RITA) – Nicaragua, ejecuta su acompañamiento en las comunidades Carreta Quebrada, Paso Real, El Madroño, La Campana y el Barrio Julio Buitrago. Consideramos que cualquier comunidades puede estar prepara...
Tags: Video, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
18 Dec 2014
As part of its Urban October celebrations, UN-Habitat has launched “Paper City”, a stop-motion video animation portraying today’s urban challenges using a paper and cardboard mock city. Aimed at an audience not yet familiar with urbanization pr...
Tags: Video, Infrastructure and Services, Urban Infrastructure, Urban Planning, Urban Risk Reduction