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Families at risk of forced eviction in Haiti

amnesty.org –

Hundreds of families living in a camp for internally displaced people in Carrefour, in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, are being harassed and intimidated and are at imminent risk of forced eviction.Residents at Grace Village camp, in the Carrefour area of Metropolitan Port-au-Prince are at imminent risk of forced eviction. At least 30 families have already been forcibly evicted, after their shelters and belongings were destroyed during the night of 28 April. They were forced to leave their more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 17, 2012

Integrating knowledge and actions in disaster risk reduction: the contribution of participatory mapping

onlinelibrary.wiley.com –

This study provides insight into the way in which large-scale Participatory 3-Dimensional Mapping (P3DM) provides new opportunities for integrating local and scientific knowledge, as well as bottom-up and top-down actions in disaster risk reduction . The article argues that integrating scientific and local knowledge within disaster risk reduction (DRR) using methods that encourage knowledge exchange and two-way dialogue is a difficult yet important task. It focuses primarily on coastal more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 17, 2012

Towards a Safer World: recent developments

preventionweb.net –

This paper summarizes further approaches, case studies and developments that Towards a Safer World (TASW) partners have been working on since the release of 'Beyond Pandemics: a whole-of-society approach to disaster preparedness' at the September 2011 TASW conference in Rome.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 16, 2012

African Progress Report 2012

allafrica.com –

The 2012 African Progress Report says that African leaders must deliver on jobs, justice and equity to turn Africa’s population boom into a demographic dividend and avoid “disaster”.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 13, 2012

Year 2030 – The perfect storm: Scenario planning guide

populationinstitute.org –

Scenario planning exercises are commonly used by governments and businesses to anticipate and prepare for various contingencies. Military analysts use “war games” and scenario planning exercises to enhance military preparedness and prevent the outbreak of hostilities.World leaders are scheduled to meet in July of 2030 to discuss next steps, but optimism is waning. As world leaders attempt to cope with the global dimensions of the “perfect storm,” developing countries in 2030 will have to more...

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D C on May 10, 2012

Disaster risk reduction: a global advocacy guide

ifrc.org –

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiatives encapsulate the growing recognition that relief is not enough in mitigating disasters and that resilient communities in fact are the key to reducing the impact and severity of natural hazards when they strike. During 2010 alone more than 208 million people were affected by natural hazards. Equally alarming is the projection, that should current trends continue, annually 100,000 lives will be lost each year, while the costs of natural disasters will be more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 13, 2012

Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) Risk Reduction through Community-based Approaches

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One of the manifestations of the impact of climate change has emerged in the form of GLOF hazard – glacial lake outburst floods. With a view to strengthen GLOF risk mitigation efforts, the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR), UNDP has been focusing on emerging hazards in the Himalayan region. The aim has been to develop activities and initiatives which can be implemented in a feasible manner and can be sustained by communities and local administrations easily to mitigate the impact more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 15, 2012

Global disaster risk: patterns, trends and drivers

preventionweb.net –

Given the growing influence of climate change, the centerpiece of this document is an analysis of the mortality and economic loss risk for three weather-related hazards: tropical cyclones, floods and landslides. In addition new insights have been gained into other hazards such as earthquakes, tsunami and drought.

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Sonia Hossain on July 01, 2009

Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?

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Since the 2010 earthquake, almost $6 billion has been disbursed in official aid to Haiti, a country with a population of just under 10 million. An estimated $3 billion has been donated to NGOs in private contributions in addition to official aid. The United States Government alone has disbursed almost $2 billion of this total amount and has pledged over $3 billion for relief and reconstruction.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 15, 2012

Closing the Loop :Responding to People’s Information Needs from Crisis Response to Recovery to Development

internews.org –

Information provision typically has been a peripheral concern in humanitarian assistance, if it has been included at all. And yet information is as important as food, shelter, water and medical care in the response to crisis, whether a natural disaster or an armed conflict. The availability of timely and accurate information empowers people who are often otherwise powerless to re-assert control over their own lives to regain their security, their safety and even their dignity.This paper, a more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 15, 2012

12 of the Most Destructive Earthquakes

science.howstuffworks.com –

Every year, earthquakes cause thousands of deaths, either directly or due to the resulting tsunamis, landslides, fires, and famines. Quakes occur when a fault (where Earth's tectonic plates meet) slips, releasing energy in waves that move through the ground. Scientists measure the strength of tremors on the Richter scale, which assigns magnitude in numbers, like 6.0 or 7.2. A 5.0 tremor is equivalent to a 32-kiloton blast, nearly the explosive power of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in more...

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Kasem Ali on July 28, 2009

We have seen the enemy : Bangladesh's war against climate change

guardian.co.uk –

Storms of this intensity historically happen in Bangladesh once every 20 to 30 years. But two "super-cyclones" in two years, followed by a narrow escape when super-cyclone Nargis killed 100,000 people in nearby Burma a year later, convinced Sultan and her village, as well as many sceptics in government, that climate change was happening and Bangladesh's very survival was at stake.Gazipara, like thousands of other villages in coastal Bangladesh, is now racing to adapt to the increased flooding, more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 10, 2012

Tackling exposure: placing disaster risk management at the heart of national economic and fiscal policy

cdkn.org –

The report carries the clearest messages yet that government and business leaders must respond swiftly and decisively to the latest climate change science, and anticipate extreme weather-related disasters as they undertake strategic policy and business planning.The report’s authors have now drawn together examples of best practice planning and recommendations to help decision makers integrate disaster risk management in national and regional economic, fiscal and development planning.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 09, 2012

Resilience to natural hazards in developing nations

parliament.uk –

In the last 10 years, over 500,000 people have lost their lives and around 1.5 billion people have been adversely affected due to rapid-onset natural hazards such as earthquakes, tsunami, floods and tropical storms. This briefing discusses the potential for science and technology to enhance resilience to such hazards in developing nations. “Resilience” to natural hazards refers to the ability to protect lives, livelihoods and infrastructure from destruction, and to the capability to restore more...

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D C on March 15, 2012

Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century

gfdrr.org –

This report provides forward-looking operational assistance to policy makers and technical specialists in the rapidly expanding cities and towns of the developing world on how best to manage the risk of floods. It takes a strategic approach, in which appropriate risk management measures are assessed, selected and integrated in a process that both informs and involves the full range of stakeholders.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 03, 2012

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