The second edition of the book entitled Flood Forecasting: A Global Perspective was recently launched and it covers ...

Handbook on the use of risk knowledge for multi-hazard early warning systems 2024 ...

The launch event of the Atlas of the Human Planet 2024 will be an occasion to explore how information on population and human ...

From 22nd to 24th October, more than 700 stakeholders involved in disaster risk reduction in Africa are gathering in Windhoek, Namibia, under the umbrella of the 9th Africa Regional Platform for ...

From 20th to 24th October, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), the African Union Commission (AUC), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and the Republic of ...

Disaster response efforts benefit substantially from the use of information on the geographical extent of the hazard that triggered the disaster. For example, maps of the geographical extent of floods ...

On 15th October, the European Space Agency (ESA) officially kicked off their new project, Ciseres, at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Milan. Ciseres is a small satellite mission ...

In March 2015, 187 Members States of the United Nations launched the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. The framework called for the implementation of efforts at the local, ...

The Step by Step procedure for Burn Severity was developed using R-Studio and QGIS. These two methods were developed to give the user flexibility to choose which of the open source tools is more ...

Hydrometeorological hazards result from the state and behaviour of the Earth’s atmosphere, its interaction with the land and oceans, the weather and climate produced and the resulting distribution of ...