* A dual disaster
handbook: 6 recommendations for local leaders responding to floods during
COVID-19 American Flood Coalition (AFC), 2020
In 2020, local leaders across the United States will likely
face an unprecedented threat that requires significant collective action: a
flood that hits during the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout. This
“dual disaster” will likely be widespread: 128 million Americans are at risk of
flooding this spring, and the country is likely to see more hurricanes than
normal this season. This handbook for local leaders provides six
recommendations...
Themes: Disaster Risk Management
Hazards: Epidemic & Pandemic; Flood
* A method for
monetising the mental health costs of flooding Environment Agency, United
Kingdom - gov; Welsh Government, United Kingdom - gov, 2020
Recent research from Public Health England (PHE) shows
that people that experience flooding in their homes can suffer from mental
health illnesses, including depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress
disorder. This has an economic impact, including costs to the health service
and lost days at work. This project developed a method for evaluating the
impact of flooding on mental health and assessing these economic impacts. Prior
to this study, the...
Themes: Social Impacts & Social Resilience
Hazards: Flood
* A model to
predict flood loss in mountain areas Environmental Modelling & Software
(Elsevier), 2020
Vulnerability is defined as the degree of loss resulting
from the hazard impact on buildings. Recent studies have focused on evaluating
vulnerability to dynamic flooding using proxies from case studies and based on
empirical ex-post approaches. However, the transferability to other case
studies and, therefore, the ability of such models to actually predict future
losses is limited. To overcome this gap, the authors present a beta model based
on loss...
Themes: Economics of DRR; Structural Safety
Hazards: Flood
* Adapting to
climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa International Monetary Fund (IMF), 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa is the region in the world most
vulnerable to climate change. Rising temperatures, rising sea levels, and
rainfall anomalies are increasing the frequency and intensity of natural
disasters and are markedly transforming the region’s geography. Adapting
to climate change is critical to safeguarding and further advancing hard-earned
improvements in incomes and education and health outcomes across sub-Saharan
Africa over...
Themes: Climate Change; Economics of DRR
* Adaptive social
protection: Building resilience to shocks Global Facility for Disaster
Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR); World Bank, the (WB), 2020
The report outlines an organizing framework for the
design and implementation of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP), providing
insights into the ways in which social protection systems can be made more
capable of building household resilience. By way of its four building
blocks—programs, information, finance, and institutional arrangements and
partnerships—the framework highlights both the elements of existing social
protection systems that...
Themes: Economics of DRR; Information Management; Social
Impacts & Social Resilience
* Anticipatory
action for livelihood protection: A collective endeavour Overseas Development
Institute (ODI), 2020
The term ‘anticipatory action’ refers to actions triggered
before a crisis in order to mitigate the worst effects, or even avoid a crisis
altogether. Decisions on how to protect livelihoods continue to be taken when a
crisis is already happening and delays in mobilising funds to respond are
commonplace. This working paper argues that the potential benefits of
anticipatory action can only be achieved if the central focus moves from
identifying...
Themes: Early Warning; Information Management; Risk
Identification & Assessment
* Assessment of
Climate Change over the Indian Region Springer, 2020
The aim of this assessment report is to describe the
physical science basis of regional climate change over the Indian subcontinent
and adjoining areas. The first chapter briefly introduces global climate
change, sets the regional context, and synthesizes the key points from the
subsequent chapters. Apart from GHGs, emissions of anthropogenic aerosols over
the northern Hemisphere have substantially increased during the last few
decades, and their...
Themes: Climate Change; Environment & Ecosystems
* Atlas of global
surface water dynamics European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), 2020
It is impossible to overstate the importance of
freshwater in our daily lives – for proof, try going without it for any length
of time. Surface waterbodies (lakes, ponds, rivers, creeks, estuaries… it
doesn't matter what name they go under) are particularly important because they
come into direct contact with us and our biophysical environment. But our
knowledge concerning where and when waterbodies might be found was, until
recently,...
Themes: Climate Change; Science and Technology; Water
* Capacity
assessment of tsunami preparedness in the Indian Ocean – status report 2018:
executive summary United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization - Headquarters (UNESCO), 2020
Recognising the importance of conducting an up-to-date
capacity assessment of tsunami preparedness in the Indian Ocean 13 years after
the first survey, the ICG/IOTWMS at its 11th session (Putrajaya, Malaysia,
April 2017) established a Task Team on Capacity Assessment of Tsunami
Preparedness (TT-CATP). The Task Team designed and conducted an online survey
covering all aspects of the end-to-end tsunami warning and mitigation system.
Twenty ICG/IOTWMS...
Themes: Capacity Development; Disaster Risk Management
Hazards: Tsunami
* Climate change,
conflict and fragility: an evidence review and recommendations for research and
action Overseas Development Institute (ODI), 2020
This report looks at the evidence on the links between
violent conflict and climate-related hazards, disasters and natural resources.
It explores the relationship between conflict and short-term, extreme weather
events (such as tropical storms), and other natural disasters (such as earthquakes)
that can trigger humanitarian disasters. It also considers slow-onset and
long-term changes in natural resources related to the climate (such as drought
and...
Themes: Climate Change; Fragility and conflict
* Community
engagement for COVID-19 infection prevention and control: A rapid review of the
evidence Community Health Community of Practice (CH CoP), 2020
This rapid evidence review looks at the community
engagement for infectious disease prevention and control, to learn lessons for
the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide and future pandemic response.
Some of the key learnings on Community Engagement (CE), is: Preparation Early
discussions and negotiation with communities is critical for understanding
socio-cultural contexts and developing culturally appropriate prevention and
control strategies;...
Themes: Community-based DRR; Social Impacts & Social
Resilience
Hazards: Epidemic & Pandemic
* Coordinating
climate finance in Kenya: technical measures or political change?
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), 2020
This policy brief analyses how climate finance is being
coordinated in Kenya, focusing on current efforts as well as the barriers and
challenges hindering further effectiveness of climate finance coordination
mechanisms. The authors assessed Kenya’s climate finance coordination through a
combination of policy analysis and interviews with key stakeholders within the
country’s climate finance landscape. This brief makes the following policy...
Themes: Climate Change; Economics of DRR; Governance
* COVID-19 risk
assessment tool: Dual application of risk communication and risk governance
Progress in Disaster Science, 2020
Risk awareness is the best way to prevent and slow down
the transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic and is achieved through the
communication of risk assessment. Effective risk communication is an important
measure to control infodemics as well. Most risk assessment tools focus on
either tracking affected patients or diagnosing a probable health
condition through their symptoms. The Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy
(RIKA) in India has introduced an...
Themes: Risk Identification & Assessment; Science and
Technology
Hazards: Epidemic & Pandemic
* Disaster
property insurance in Uzbekistan: Overview and recommendations Global Facility
for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR); World Bank, the (WB), 2020
This report aims to provide a detailed overview of the
current status of disaster insurance for residential property in Uzbekistan,
identify gaps, and provide recommendations for a way forward. It is structured
in three main parts. The first part provides an overview of Uzbekistan disaster
profile and buildings’ seismic vulnerability based on a risk assessment
performed for the Kyrgyz Republic. The second part provides an overview of the
local...
Themes: Governance; Risk Identification & Assessment;
Structural Safety
* Disaster risk
reduction in the Republic of Kiribati Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
(ADPC); United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for
Asia and Pacific (UNDRR AP), 2019
This Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) report provides the
latest snapshot of the DRR progress the Republic of Kiribati has achieved under
the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. It
also highlights some of the key challenges surrounding the issue of creating
coherence among the key global frameworks at the country level; and makes
recommendations for strengthening the overall Disaster Risk Management (DRM)
governance by...
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Small Island Developing
States (SIDS)
* Drivers and
barriers of adaptation initiatives – how societal transformation affects
natural hazard management and risk mitigation in Europe Science of The Total
Environment (Elsevier), 2020
In this study, the authors interrogate drivers and
barriers of societal transformation in natural hazard management through case
studies in Austria, France and Ireland focusing on attempts to integrate
multi-functional protection schemes in the context of flood and avalanche
hazards. The authors find that transformative approaches have been mainly
supported by local initiatives instigated by local governments, residents, or
NGOs with the aim of complementing...
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Social Impacts &
Social Resilience
Hazards: Avalanche; Flood
* Enhancing access
to services for migrants in the context of COVID-19 preparedness, prevention,
and response and beyond United Nations Network on Migration, 2020
Effective COVID-19 preparedness, prevention and response
require a migrant-inclusive approach regarding access to services at
the national and local levels. By including migrants in national plans,
including socio-economic response plans, impact analysis, policies and
strategies, gaps in health and other inequities such as access to education and
information, training and decent work will be diminished, strengthening efforts
towards...
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Human Mobility;
Inclusion
Hazards: Epidemic & Pandemic
* Estimating
resiliency benefits of road upgradation: Case of the East Road in Malaita,
Solomon Islands World Bank, the (WB), 2020
Governments and their multilateral partners are increasingly
recognizing the importance of incorporating climate and disaster resilience
considerations into infrastructure development plans as well as the related
construction and financing decisions. The objective of this paper to estimate
the resiliency benefits, in terms of key socioeconomic outcomes, under several
road up-gradation options and rainfall scenarios. The estimated benefits are
compared...
Themes: Climate Change; Small Island Developing States
(SIDS); Structural Safety
* Financing for
climate adaptation – an overview of current regimes Institute of Development
Studies (IDS), 2020
This report reviews the main funding mechanisms for
climate adaptation/resilience programmes in developing countries. This rapid
review finds that the majority of climate adaptation and resilience activities
in developing countries are financed through domestic resources. However, the
academic and policy literature reviewed does not reveal much about how these
revenues are generated. The international public sector finance is heavily
skewed towards...
Themes: Climate Change; Economics of DRR
* Flood early
warning system development: a case study Plan International Indonesia, 2020
This case study makes the case for the effectiveness of
early warning and the role of young people in flood preparedness in Jakarta,
Indonesia. The document concludes that young people play a very important role
in mobilizing peers so that their involvement could usefully increase the
resilience towards floods. The authors propose the following recommendations to
the authorities: Provide program support and sufficient budget allocation; Support
young...
Themes: Children and Youth; Early Warning; Governance
Hazards: Flood
* Global financial
stability report: Markets in the time of COVID-19: Chapter 5: Climate change:
Physical risk and equity prices International Monetary Fund (IMF), 2020
Disasters as a result of climate change are projected to
be more frequent and more severe, which could threaten financial stability.
Chapter 5 looks at the impact of climate change physical risk on global equity
valuations to assess this threat. The chapter shows that the impact of large
disasters on equity markets, bank stocks, and non–life insurance stocks has
generally been modest over the past 50 years. High levels of insurance
penetration...
Themes: Climate Change; Private Sector
Hazards: Epidemic & Pandemic
* Implementation
of property level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) measures: choices and decisions
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water (Wiley) (WIREs)
Effective response requires effective risk management
concepts and strategies at individual and watershed level to increase community
resilience. Focusing on flood risk and the information associated with it,
individual risk behaviour in the shape of implementing property‐level
flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) measures is often overlooked. For this research,
a comprehensive overview of possible PLFRA measures for homeowners in flood
risk areas was...
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Social Impacts &
Social Resilience
Hazards: Flood
* Infiltration
efficiency and subsurface water processes of a sustainable drainage system and
consequences to flood management Journal of Flood Risk Management (Wiley), 2020
With increased intensity rainfall events globally and
urban expansion decreasing permeable surfaces, there is an increasing problem
of urban flooding. This study aims to better understand rainfall infiltration
into a Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) permeable pavement, compared with an
adjacent Green Area of made ground, in relationship to groundwater levels below
both areas. Results showed that average infiltration rates of the SuDS
(1,925...
Themes: Science and Technology; Urban Risk &
Planning; Water
Hazards: Flood
* Integrated responses
to building climate and pandemic resilience in Africa Africa Adaptation
Initiative (AAI); Global Center on Adaptation (GCA), 2020
This policy brief recommends focusing stimulus investment
on resilient infrastructure and food security to overcome the COVID-climate
crisis. The authors propose a set of policy recommendations (p. 13) that bring
multiple benefits, a “triple dividend”, to African countries. The first
dividend is reduced pandemic risk. The second is climate resilience and the
third is strengthened economic recover.
Themes: Climate Change
Hazards: Epidemic & Pandemic
* National
earthquake research programme (UDAP) success stories Ministry of Interior,
Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), Turkey - gov, 2020
The aim of the National Earthquake Research Programme
(UDAP) in Turkey is to ensure the efficient use of the resources of the country
by the projects of which outcomes meet the needs and transfer into the
implementation. The programme supports studies conducted in accordance with
scientific principles and ethical rules in order to produce information, make
scientific comments or solve technological problems. This booklet presents the
projects that...
Themes: Disaster Risk Management
Hazards: Earthquake
* National
platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction: UNDRR regional office for Europe and
Central Asia overview United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction -
Regional Office for Europe (UNDRR ROE); United Nations Office for Disaster Risk
Reduction - Sub-Regional Office for Central Asia (UNDRR SRO CASC), 2020
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction stresses
the need for better governance of risk, in which the state has the primary role
in reducing disaster risk. Building resilience to disasters also brings
together the responsibilities of many sectors, stakeholders, and levels of
governance. By ensuring effective coordination of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
at national level, national platforms play an instrumental role in ensuring an
all-of-government...
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Governance
* Policy alignment
to advance climate-resilient development in Nepal: Opportunities and way
forward National Adaptation Plan Global Network; Nepal - government, 2020
This policy discussion paper looks into the existing key
policy processes that include Sustainable Development Goals, National
Development Goals and Periodic Plans, Climate Change Policy, Nationally
Determined Contributions and Disaster Risk Reduction and line ministry policies
and explores the entry points along with critical steps to forward the policy
alignment notion for climate-resilient development in Nepal. It assesses
the existing and...
Themes: Climate Change; Governance
* Preparedness and
preventive behaviors for a pandemic disaster caused by COVID-19 in Serbia
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI)
(IJERPH), 2020
This paper presents the results of quantitative research
regarding the level of citizen preparedness for disasters caused by coronavirus
disease (COVID-19) in Serbia. The questionnaire examined citizens’ basic
socio-economic and demographic characteristics, their knowledge, preparedness,
risk perception and preventive measures taken individually and as a community
to prevent the death and widespread transmission of novel coronavirus
disease...
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Social Impacts &
Social Resilience
Hazards: Epidemic & Pandemic
* Rapid review of
physical distancing and alternative disease control measures in South Asia
IDinsight; United Kingdom - government, 2020
The rapid review (and the policy brief) provides an overview
of the physical distancing measures that have been implemented in South Asian
countries to date and recommendations on approaches that can be employed to
prevent the spread of COVID-19, with a specific set of recommendations for
India. This briefing paper was commissioned by the South Asia Research Hub in
collaboration with DFID’s Research and Evidence Department’s Science Cell...
Themes: Disaster Risk Management
Hazards: Epidemic & Pandemic
* Scaling local
and community-based adaptation Global Center on Adaptation (GCA), 2020
This paper makes a case for local actions and
community-based adaptation (CBA) by showing what adaptation success looks like
at the local and community level. It recognizes that successful adaptation is
process-driven and requires longer-term engagement along a full spectrum of
actions, including visioning, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation,
and learning. This paper identifies key enablers and barriers for successful
adaptation actions...
Themes: Climate Change; Community-based DRR; Governance
* The impact of
COVID-19 and strategies for mitigation and suppression in low- and middle-income
countries American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2020
The results presented here illustrate the potential
impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in low-income
countries (LICs) and low-middle-income countries (LMICs) compared to the
epidemics that have occurred to date in upper-middle-income countries (UMICs)
and high-income countries (HICs). This study's results highlight the difficult
decisions countries are faced within the coming weeks and months irrespective
of region or income...
Themes: Disaster Risk Management
Hazards: Epidemic & Pandemic
* The Philippines
- Impact of early warning early action: Exploring the interplay between El
Niño-induced drought, conflict and gender Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations - Headquarters (FAO), 2020
This study analyses the outcome of acting early on the
island of Mindanao in the Philippines between 2018 and 2019, ahead of
an El Niño‑induced drought. It evaluates the effectiveness of
anticipatory actions and highlights families’ perspectives on the benefits of acting early. The lessons learned
presented in this study, are (pp. 22-23): Early Warning Early Action (EWEA)
systems must build on existing Disaster Risk Reduction...
Themes: Early Warning; Food Security & Agriculture;
Fragility and conflict; Gender
Hazards: Drought
* The predictive
capacity of air travel patterns during the global spread of the COVID-19
pandemic: risk, uncertainty and randomness International Journal of
Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI) (IJERPH), 2020
Air travel has a decisive role in the spread of
infectious diseases at the global level. The authors present a methodology
applied during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic that uses detailed
aviation data at the final destination level in order to measure the risk of
the disease spreading outside China. The approach proved to be successful in
terms of identifying countries with a high risk of infected travellers and as a
tool to monitor the...
Themes: Health & Health Facilities; Risk
Identification & Assessment
Hazards: Epidemic & Pandemic
* The projected
impacts of climate change on food security in the Middle East and North Africa
(MENA) Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2020
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is already
highly dependent on food imports, making it also vulnerable to price shocks on
the global markets and harvest failures in other world regions. This rapid
review focuses on literature discussing the impact of climate change on food
security, in terms of future water use and food import changes, for the region
as a whole. Peer-reviewed literature shows that the region will continue to be
affected...
Themes: Climate Change; Food Security & Agriculture;
Water
* Training module
on cyclone risk management Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management (GIDM),
2020
The Regional Climate Models (RCMs) predict an
augmentation in the intensity of cyclonic activity, which has been evident
recently. The Year 2019 recorded one of the most active cyclone seasons for
Gujarat as six cyclonic activities were observed in the Arabian Sea out of
which four cyclones were of intensity “Very Severe Cyclonic Storm” and above.
It is imperative to mainstream cyclone risk reduction in developmental planning
and to adopt...
Themes: Capacity Development; Climate Change;
Community-based DRR; Disaster Risk Management; Early Warning; Risk
Identification & Assessment; Science and Technology
Hazards: Cyclone
* Training module
on urban risk reduction and resilience Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management
(GIDM), 2019
The training module on Urban Risk Reduction and
Resilience focuses on various aspects of disaster risks in urban areas. Factors
like the concentration of population, economic activities, building activities
and networks in urban areas result in aggravated risk from disasters and at
times, these factors end up causing disasters as well. The module is designed
to provide a common platform of knowledge for urban development professionals
and disaster...
Themes: Capacity Development; Risk Identification &
Assessment; Social Impacts & Social Resilience; Urban Risk & Planning
Hazards: Cyclone; Earthquake; Flood; Heat Wave
* Training module:
Understanding disaster risk management Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management
(GIDM)
This particular training manual explains the various
controllers of disaster risk and elaborates on how they are related to each
other. Care has been taken to explain these crucial parameters as lucidly as
possible. Starting from the fundamentals, the module builds upon and gradually
talks about the different aspects of disaster risk management. In addition to
this, national and international arrangements are been discussed like the
relevant statutes...
Themes: Capacity Development; Disaster Risk Management
Hazards: Earthquake; Flood; Heat Wave
* When does
response end and recovery begin? Exploring preparation and planning to support
community’s resilient recovery National Centre for Resilience (University of
Glasgow), 2020
This research project explores areas in which resilience
practitioners’ (RPs) and emergency responders’ (ERs) can influence on a
community during a Natural Hazzard Emergency (NHE), and how this affects a
community’s capacity to recover. This is important because a community’s
ability to effectively recover from impacts of an NHE has implications for that
community’s future resilience, and its ability to adapt to the effects...
Themes: Disaster Risk Management; Recovery; Social
Impacts & Social Resilience
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