Early warning

Remembering the lives lost in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, a tsunami drill and test of the Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning Systems were held on 26 December 2007...

Red Cross Red Crescent and IRI partnership set to address urgent "need to incorporate climate information into disaster-risk reduction and decision making"...

This Study is part of DFID’s strategic effort to assess the significance of disaster risk in its development work. It aims to explore evidence on linkages between poverty alleviation, development and disaster risk reduction, and to establish why disaster

This paper is a product of the Third International Conference on Early Warning (EWC III), held in Bonn, Germany from 27-29 March 2006, from the People, Politics and Economics session. The session addressed how to link scientific and technical knowledge

A simple early warning system that used local volunteers shouting through megaphones to warn people about the impending cyclone saved thousands of lives when Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh last week...

Sustainable development of natural vegetation systems, land-use systems and rural populations in many countries are at risk due to wildland fires that devastate valuable vegetation resources (forests and other wildlands, farmlands, pastures, plantations

The Sixteenth International Tsunami Symposium, TSUNAMI ’93, drew more than 150 scientists, engineers and specialists in tsunami research and disaster mitigation from 13 countries. The leading contributions to the symposium, selected after a rigorous

A fully illustrated book Real Risk offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in the light of major natural disasters that have occurred since the publication of Know Risk in early 2005. It brings together the