Latest additions to the knowledge base

Recently released high-quality, up-to-date vector-based maps of Central and South America give insurance and reinsurance companies a precise, reliable cartographic basis that can associate actual and modelled risks with the objects to be insured...

Incorporating practices that can assist the National Emergency Management Agency's efforts to mitigate disasters, forms a major part of the observance of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, reports the Saint Kitts and Nevis-based national broadcasting company ZIZ...

NSF has awarded a grant for the development of a tectonic plate-scale integrated geodetic and atmospheric/regional climate observational system to increase understanding and assess seismic and other natural hazards in the Caribbean and Central America...

This report reviews the progress made in addressing the vulnerabilities of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) through the implementation of the Mauritius Strategy, which includes natural and environmental disasters as one of its themes and means of

'Since we do not have any control over when and where natural disasters will strike, our only recourse is preparedness' said Permanent Secretary L Lawrence, from Nevis Island Ministry of Finance, at a UNECLAC Damage and Loss Assessment Workshop for Economic Evaluation of Natural Disasters...

'You have been pioneers in calling attention to the specific vulnerability of Small Island States to climate change. Adaptation strategies to this very real threat will require sizeable and sustained investment' said the United Nations Secretary-General...

Lester Blackett, Director of the Nevis Disaster Management Office, has called for governments to broaden the scope of their disaster management efforts to include strategies that will reduce the vulnerability of the population and economic activities to natural hazards...

The Jamaica Observer reports that Dr Barbara Carby will focus on risk management, with an emphasis on risk reduction, which she regards as a critical component of any effort to achieve sustainable development for the region...