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Integrated Urban Flood Management Manual
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Global Water Partnership (GWP); United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - WMO, 2011This training manual addresses a broad spectrum of relevant issues in this emerging field of integrated urban flood management. It is expected to provide course participants and practitioners with best practice concepts and application with the intention to further inform and engage stakeholders in promoting integrated and cooperative approaches in water management in general. The manual integrates expertise from disciplines such as hydrology, sociology, economics, architecture, urban design, construction and water resources engineering and management. The subject is approached from an interna ...
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Third Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction : summary of Meeting
IISD, 2011On Friday, 13 May, Margareta Wahlström, UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, introduced in plenary the Chair's Summary, which highlighted the consensus points from the discussions that had taken place over the course of the week. She said the next challenge is to assist countries and communities in implementing disaster risk reduction.
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Warning Operations Course (WOC) : Severe Track
The Warning Operations Course (WOC) Severe Track is a course that consists of approximately xx hours of training material on topics that are relevant to severe weather warning decision-making. The Severe Track consists of:
- 5 curricula (convective fundamentals, tornado, hail, quasi-convective linear system, & impact-based warning),
- Forecast Challenge,
- A mesoscale analysis webinars, and
- WOC Severe WES-2 simulation.
The WOC Severe Track modules include a combination of learning technologies including teletraining, web-based training, Weat ...
Typhoon Committee Expert Mission Report
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) - WMO, 2008 (WMO/TD-No. 1448)
Making integrated flood management : part of the development agenda
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Global Water Partnership (GWP); Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM) - WMO, 2006Our planet’s water resources are vital for sustainable development. Floods play a major role in replenishing freshwater resources, recharging wetlands and groundwater and supporting agriculture and fishery systems, thereby making flood plains preferred areas for human settlement and various economic activities. Flood plains are subjected to periodic inundation by the smaller and more frequent floods that also provide nutrition to fertile agricultural lands, supporting livelihoods of riparian communities. Occasionally, however, floods have negative impacts on lives, livelihoods and economic act ...
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Institutional capacity in natural disaster risk reduction - final report : a comparative analysis of institutions, national policies, and cooperative responses to floods in Asia
APN, 2005IFA project explores the challenging problem of how to effectively shape human institutional responses to the risk of natural disasters with a special focus on floods. In Asia, human vulnerability to natural disasters and, particularly, to those amplified by global climate change, is increasing. Today, Asia accounts for about 90% of the world population affected by natural disasters, and among it with more than half - as a result of floods.
Programme on Flood Management (APFM). integrated flood management : concept paper
This paper conceptualizes Integrated Flood Management (IFM) as a subset of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and describes the interplay between floods and the development process. It takes a look at traditional flood management options from the IFM angle and identifies the major challenges encountered by flood plain managers and decision makers before describing the basic tenets and requirements of IFM.
This concept paper is to be followed by a series of supplementary papers going into further detail about different aspects of IFM to help flood managers and decision ...
Factoring of Weather and Climate Information and Products into Disaster Management Policy : A contribution to Strategies for Disaster Reduction in Kenya
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); GoK - IGAD, 2002
No. 8 - July 1991 - Eleventh Congress World Meteorological Organization: Interview with Mr. C. E. Berridge Permanent Representative of the Commonwealth of Dominica with World Meteorological Organization
is an issue of WMO Feature. WMO, 1991
N°8 - Juillet 1991 - Onzième congrès météorologique mondiale: Interview de M. C.E. Berridge Représentant Permanent du Commonwealth de la Dominique auprès de l'Organisation météorologique mondiale
is an issue of Chronique OMM. OMM, 1991
The Australian Journal of Emergency Management: AJEM
The Australian Journal of Emergency Management (AJEM) has been published since 1986. The journal began as the Macedon Digest in March 1986, and then in 1995 the name was changed to the Australian Journal of Emergency Management.
APFM Newsletter
What’s new in the APFM? Not only further activities and publications, but the newsletter itself! Discover our latest achievements in the restyled Flood Management News!
Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS)
GDACS is a cooperation framework between the United Nations, the European Commission and disaster managers worldwide to improve alerts, information exchange and coordination in the first phase after major sudden-onset disasters.
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Disaster Management as an Opportunity for Sustainable Rural Development: In Jahangirnagar Planning Review, Vol. 2, June 2004
Necessity is the mother of invention. This is very much true in disaster management and development activities in Bangladesh. As a part of policy matters of government of Bangladesh disaster management efforts have been integrated into the process of national development. Flood protection embankments are
used as roads and in some cases as a portion of national road network system. Cyclone centres are used for multipurpose activities of community and rural development. Schools in coastal areas have been designed to be used as cyclone shelters in case of necessity. Houses and other ...
EM-DAT: the International Disaster Database
The main objective of the database is to serve the purposes of humanitarian action at national and international levels. It is an initiative aimed to rationalise decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as providing an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting.
EM-DAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 18,000 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agenci ...
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