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Could El Niño Long Range Warning System help countries manage the effects of severe weather events?

Could El Niño Long Range Warning System help countries manage the effects of severe weather events?

Currently many countries are experiencing severe drought. Could the impacts of drought have been minimised with an effective long-range warning system (LRWS)?

Three-stage warning systems that conduct short, medium and seasonal forecasting can prepare industries and communities for both severe weather events and the impacts of El Niño. When ocean conditions suggest that an El Niño may be…

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Are we there yet? The transition from response to recovery for the COVID-19 pandemic

Are we there yet? The transition from response to recovery for the COVID-19 pandemic

Webinar | Transition from response to recovery-Tuesday, 12 May 2020, 1 PM NZT (GMT+12)

Join us tomorrow as we bring some of the world’s leading disaster risk reduction experts together to discuss this pandemic –https://event.webinarjam.com/register/1/plpw4hx

They’ll be talking about how we transition from response to recovery in this pandemic. Given that disaster is what they do, they are…

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Europe's plan to ease restrictions for #covid19

Europe’s plan to ease restrictions for #covid19

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Sinking, swimming and surfing- risk communications of uncertainties of the pandemic

Uncertainties in the COVID-19 impact assessment are inevitable. In order to understand various approaches to uncertainty and model implications, they need to holistically analyze. An inherently high level of uncertainty is associated with pandemic assessments derived with parametric approaches. While higher degrees of accuracy may be achieved with data-intensive based models, uncertainties are…

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UN launches COVID-19 plan that could ‘defeat the virus and build a better world’ sg_report_socio-economic_impact_of_covid19

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UN launches COVID-19 plan that could ‘defeat the virus and build a better world’

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Disaster and Data Newsletter- April 2020

Read April 2020 Edition of our #DRR and #Data Newsletter on behalf of #Disaster DATA Working Group of Integrated Research on Disaster #Risk(IRDR) programme of ICS/UNISDR, CODATA task group Linked Open Data for #Global Disaster Risk #Research (LODGD), #SustainableDevelopment #Solution #Network, Public #Health England and Tonkin+Taylor. Feel free to subscribe!

https://tonkintaylor.cmail19.com/t/Vie…

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Preferences for improved early warning services among coastal communities at risk in cyclone

Preferences for improved early warning services among coastal communities at risk in cyclone

Cyclone early warning systems are the primary sources of information that enable people to develop a preparedness strategy to mitigate the hazards of cyclones to lives and livelihoods. In Bangladesh, cyclone early warnings have significantly decreased the number of cyclone related fatalities over the last two decades. Nevertheless, several challenges remain for existing early warning services…

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Multi-hazards early warning system for Dominica

Multi-hazards early warning system for Dominica

With golden sands, azure-hued waters and temperature averages sitting nicely in the mid-20s, the island nation of Dominica in the Caribbean is a picturesque paradise you’d see on a postcard or a screensaver.

It’s Dominica’s tropical location that gives it its paradise-like qualities. That same location however, leaves Dominica prone to hurricanes, high-wind, high-rainfall, earthquakes, volcanic…

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Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter- September 2018

Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter- September 2018

  DRR and data in the news

Google Cloud and other SDG partners launch new programme for students

Mobilizing Youth on Data for Action and Transformation in Africa

New website drives logistics planning and preparation for natural disasters in Pacific

IWMI, CGIAR and CCAFS partner to map climate-related hazards in South Asia

Scientists gather social media data to improve air quality prediction…

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Disaster Risk Reduction & Open Data Newsletter - August 2018 Edition

Disaster Risk Reduction & Open Data Newsletter – August 2018 Edition

DRR and data in the news

Scientific collections and databases review by MBIE, New Zealand

LINZ report on 15 August will improve datasets for resilience in New Zealand

IBM with humanitarian organisations as partners launched Call for Code Global Initiative to support disaster recovery

KDDI, OYO and Toyota using IoT to gather data for disaster prevention

SDG experts discuss plans to save…

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