Update

The Climate Resilient Cities Primer is a tool to conduct assessments of climate change-related disaster risk in order to develop strategies to reduce the urban centres' vulnerability to extreme weather events....

Risk transfer can be an important mechanism to help mitigate the impact of disasters, especially in hazard prone countries such as the Philippines....

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is developing an extensive programme which will reinforce the coastal dyke system to help protect coastal areas from rising tides....

An official from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Suman Ghimire said the plan was to respond to disasters with three approaches: disaster-preparedness, mitigating losses and rehabilitation and reconstruction after disasters....

'If we can reduce our own fear even a little bit by knowing what to do, we might be able to do better in terms of survival,' said Dr Steven Chow, President of the Federation of Private Medical Practitioners’ Association of Malaysia....

Perspective: Chinese lecturer calls for 'a softer intellectual and systemic approach - such as introducing compulsory flood insurance' in the face of increased risks from modernization and hi-tech...

'Although there is no such thing as an earthquake-proof building...proper seismic retrofitting can give buildings a fighting chance against a sizeable earthquake,' said San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom on 7 July, just weeks prior to the 5.4-magnitude Los Angeles area earthquake...

Earthquake awareness and preparedness, training for masons and respect for building codes will be fundamental to minimize the risk for Bangladesh of undergoing a disaster any time a quake strikes....

UNDP provided prefabricated offices to local institutions to allow a full recovery of governance functions. BEGIN-ER programme's aims also include developing planning capacities and implementation of disaster risk reduction activities....

The Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2 will allow scientist to improve hurricane intensity prediction models, as well as tsunami early-warning systems....