UN-SPIDER

Regional Symposium and Training in Nairobi Strengthen Use of Space Technologies for Disaster Management in East Africa

Regional Symposium and Training In Nairobi Strengthen Use of Space Technologies For Disaster Management In East Africa ...
EurekAlert!

Typhoon disaster knowledge service driven by large language models: Key technologies and applications

This study is led by researcher Yi Huang and Yongqi Xia (School of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications), researcher Xueying Zhang and Yehua Sheng (Key Laboratory of ...
World Bank

A Novel Approach to Disaster Risk Management: The Story of Mexico

In November 2007, the state of Tabasco suffered its worst flood in the past 50 years. A week of heavy rains and storms inundated the oil-rich state and more than one million people - approximately 50% ...
World Bank

23rd Disaster Risk Management Seminar "Learning from Japan’s Experience in Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management: Launch of A Series of Knowledge Notes"

Globally, floods are the most frequent and damaging among natural hazards. Between 1998-2017, floods led to economic damages exceeding US$600 billion, affected more than 2 billion people, and resulted ...
HelpAge International

Knowledge is life: older people a key resource in disaster risk reduction

Through HelpAge’s disaster risk reduction (DRR) work with communities and older people’s associations, we have found that older people often hold very valuable knowledge. On International Day of ...