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Climate change is already taking place, and further changes are inevitable. Developing countries, and particularly the poorest people in these countries, are most at risk. Increased climate variability and extreme changes are already having major impacts
This Working Paper presents a cross-directorate report on the economic, budgetary, regulatory and urban policy implications of the earthquakes which struck the Marmara and Bolu areas of Turkey on 17 August and 12 November 1999. The earthquakes caused high casualties and significant material damage to property, with severe effects on economic activity. The Report traces the factors underlying Turkey’s vulnerability to earthquake damage, along a known active fault line, to deficiencies in risk identification procedures and risk-reduction methods, as well as to the absence of risk transfer and financing techniques. It suggests that these deficiencies may stem from the nature of recent Turkish economic development, which has been driven by the need to assimilate a mass migration from the countryside to the cities and has been associated with extremely high and variable inflation.
Two volcanoes, Kanlaon and Mayon showed signs of unrest in 2003 prompting PHIVOLCS to raise their Alert Level status. Both volcanoes produced ash explosions although no damage was inflicted on the surrounding settlements. A major earthquake with magnitude
Teaming up with representatives from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the reconnaissance teams created this report to document a series of implications for earthquake risk reduction in the United States.
As the result of the earthquake the lifelines in Bam, including public health services, totally broke down in the first 24-48 hrs. The Iranian authorities responded swiftly and the very acute phase of the response has ended. The urgent needs for health sector is being incorporated in the overall flash appeal launched on 8th January 2004 by OCHA. The present framework has been developed with the aim of in depth assessment of needs for medium-term rehabilitation of health as an integral component of the overall reconstruction.
The purpose of the international conference organized by the WMO in Madrid, Spain, from 19 to 22 March 2007, was to contribute to secure and sustainable living for all the peoples of the world by evaluating and demonstrating, and hence ultimately
This paper was written by UNEP to introduce a specific session of the Kobe Conference on Disaster Reduction, of January 2005, taking into consideration the increasing frequency and intensity of the disasters the world has faced in the very last years
This document is a post-disaster evaluation of various aspects of response to the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan including the following: evacuation of casualties, management of camps, provision of health care, collation, transport and distribution of relief
