This presentation is an introduction to the Disaster Risk Reduction Ambassador Curriculum. This presentation was given at the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association's annual Symposium held every July in Broomfield, Colorado.
This presentation is given by Katie Skakel, Senior Hazard Mitigation Planner. Watch the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCPHwnwVupA
Learning Objective: After completing this lesson students will be able to -
a) describe the concept of intergenerational justice
b) address the complexities relating to the objectives of implementing intergenerational justice
From 24 to 26 October, MCRB collaborated with WWF Myanmar and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) on a training workshop in Naypyidaw on Mining Sector Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Management.
Read more: http://www.myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org/news/mining-social-licence-to-operate.html
This presentation is an introduction to the Disaster Risk Reduction Ambassador Curriculum. This presentation was given at the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association's annual Symposium held every July in Broomfield, Colorado.
This presentation is given by Katie Skakel, Senior Hazard Mitigation Planner. Watch the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCPHwnwVupA
Learning Objective: After completing this lesson students will be able to -
a) describe the concept of intergenerational justice
b) address the complexities relating to the objectives of implementing intergenerational justice
From 24 to 26 October, MCRB collaborated with WWF Myanmar and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) on a training workshop in Naypyidaw on Mining Sector Environmental and Social Impact Assessment and Management.
Read more: http://www.myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org/news/mining-social-licence-to-operate.html
This presentation was presented by Elena Paltseva during the annual SITE Development Day 2021 conference at Stockholm School of Economics via Zoom.
Disclaimer: SITE has the permission from Elena Paltseva and Chloé Le Coq to upload this presentation slide.
Crafting & designing programs for a safer and more prosperous future. This presentation was given at the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association's annual Symposium held every July in Broomfield, Colorado.
This presentation was given by Matt Campbell of FEMA. Watch the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTN9HoE7yys
Sustainable Development: An IntroductionPreeti Sikder
Learning Objectives: After completing this lesson, students will
a) learn about the dimensions of sustainable development
b) learn through an example as to how the interdependent issues of development contribute toward achieving sustainable development
Written by
Susan L. Cutter, University of South
Carolina ; Bryan J. Boruff , University of South Carolina ;
W . Lynn Shirley, University of South Carolina
This presentation is part of the subject "Advanced theory of regional planning"
Insititute of Urban Innovation, Yokohama National University
The purpose is to understand and summarize articles of theory related to natural disasters.
The private sector is a logical player to help coordinate
and calibrate resilience-building actions. In the course of their commercial activities, companies may interact with a wide range of city departments—from law-enforcement agencies to public utilities—and therefore have the potential to act as broker, involving a broad range of government players in urban resilience discussions.
Group presentation by Anele Ndebele, Paul Kinuthia, Braam Hanekom, Patrick Duigan, Deirdre Barnard during the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine DHA
The City Resilience Framework is a unique framework developed by Arup with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, based on extensive research in cities. It provides a lens to understand the complexity of cities and the drivers that contribute to their resilience. Looking at these drivers can help cities to assess the extent of their resilience, to identify critical areas of weakness, and to identify actions and programs to improve the city’s resilience.
This presentation was presented by Elena Paltseva during the annual SITE Development Day 2021 conference at Stockholm School of Economics via Zoom.
Disclaimer: SITE has the permission from Elena Paltseva and Chloé Le Coq to upload this presentation slide.
Crafting & designing programs for a safer and more prosperous future. This presentation was given at the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association's annual Symposium held every July in Broomfield, Colorado.
This presentation was given by Matt Campbell of FEMA. Watch the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTN9HoE7yys
Sustainable Development: An IntroductionPreeti Sikder
Learning Objectives: After completing this lesson, students will
a) learn about the dimensions of sustainable development
b) learn through an example as to how the interdependent issues of development contribute toward achieving sustainable development
Written by
Susan L. Cutter, University of South
Carolina ; Bryan J. Boruff , University of South Carolina ;
W . Lynn Shirley, University of South Carolina
This presentation is part of the subject "Advanced theory of regional planning"
Insititute of Urban Innovation, Yokohama National University
The purpose is to understand and summarize articles of theory related to natural disasters.
The private sector is a logical player to help coordinate
and calibrate resilience-building actions. In the course of their commercial activities, companies may interact with a wide range of city departments—from law-enforcement agencies to public utilities—and therefore have the potential to act as broker, involving a broad range of government players in urban resilience discussions.
Group presentation by Anele Ndebele, Paul Kinuthia, Braam Hanekom, Patrick Duigan, Deirdre Barnard during the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine DHA
The City Resilience Framework is a unique framework developed by Arup with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, based on extensive research in cities. It provides a lens to understand the complexity of cities and the drivers that contribute to their resilience. Looking at these drivers can help cities to assess the extent of their resilience, to identify critical areas of weakness, and to identify actions and programs to improve the city’s resilience.
This work builds on sociological research in Chile about the elites and their attitudes towards climate change. In the first part we analyze the social and political context of the debate on CC. In the second part we analyze new elites and their attitudes toward the environment in Latin America and Chile. Then we present the main results of our research and discussion.
Leadership and Urban Sustainability, Irina Safitri Zen, UTMESD UNU-IAS
The 2016 ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme was held in Labuan Island and Beaufort, Sabah, Malaysia. The Programme included workshops, plenary sessions, and fieldwork around the topics of local sustainable development challenges in the region. The main goals of the Programme were to identify local leadership opportunities for sustainable development and to link local and national sustainable development projects to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Climate Treaty, and the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction.
Gender and Urban Climate Policy. Gender-Sensitive Policies Make a DifferenceGotelind Alber
Author. Gotelind Alber
Co-Editors: Miriam Eimermacher (GIZ), Daniel Schütt (GIZ)
Published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in collaboration with United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and GenderCC-Women for Climate Justice
2015
"Climate Crunch" : Scenarios for the global economic environmentFERMA
"Climate Crunch" : Scenarios for the global economic environment.
The recently published Global Risks 2014 report of the World Economic Forum identifies environmental risks as highest in terms of impact and likelihood. Those risks include both natural disasters, such as earthquakes and geomagnetic storms, and man-made risks such as
collapsing ecosystems, freshwater shortages, nuclear accidents and failure to mitigate or adapt to climate change. Failure of climate change mitigation and
adaptation is the fifth top risk concern according to
multi-stakeholders communities (see figure beside).
Climate change is evidence proven and this paper doesn’t intend to explore the causes. However, one can state that climate change is a systemic problem – it is one that touches all the others. As such by its systemic nature, it can cause breakdowns of entire systems and not only a component part. (
Planet Under Pressure 2012: State of the Planet Declarationuncsd2012
Scientists issue first “State of the Planet” declaration at the world’s largest gathering of experts on global environmental and social issues in advance of the major UN Summit Rio+20 in June.
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Disaster Management, Developing Country
Communities & Climate Change:
The Role of ICTs
NONITA T. YAP
University of Guelph, Canada
Edited by:
Richard Heeks and Angelica Ospina
2011
Centre for Development Informatics
Institute for Development Policy and Management, SED
University of Manchester, Arthur Lewis Building, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
Tel: +44-161-275-2800/2804, Web: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi
The research presented in this publication is the result of the "Climate Change, Innovation and ICTs"
project funded by Canada's International Development Research Centre (http://www.idrc.ca). This
publication and other project outputs can be found at: http://www.niccd.org
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………………3
1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………..4
2. The Community in Disaster Management……………………………………..7
2.1 Other Actors………………….…………………………………………………………………8
3. Use of ICTs in Climate-Related Disaster Management…………………..9
3.1. Timely and Effective Delivery of Early Warnings to the ‘Last Mile’…………13
3.1.1 Radio and Television…………………………………………………………………………………....13
3.1.2 Satellite Radio………………………………………………………………............................14
3.1.3 Telephones (Fixed and Mobile)…………………………………………………………………….14
3.1.4 Cell Broadcasting..………………………………………………………………………………………..15
3.1.5 Satellite Remote Sensing and Other Technologies………………………………….....16
3.2. Rapid, Realiable Two-way Communication in Challenged Environments...17
3.2.1 Mobile Phones.……………………………………………………………………………………………….17
3.2.2 Wireless Ad-hoc Mesh Networks with GPS….……………………………………………….17
3.2.3 Internet and e-Mail.……………………………………………………………………………………….18
3.2.4. Radio……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….18
3.3. Creating a Common Operational Picture.…………………………………………….19
3.3.1 Geographic Information Systems (GIS)…….…………………….……………….………...…19
3.3.2 GIS, Satellite Remote Sensing, GPS……..……………………….…………………………...19
3.4. Establishing Transparency and Accountability…………………………………….20
3.5. Strengths, Weaknesses and Emerging Trends…………………………………….21
3.5.1 Advantages and Disadvantages…………………………….………………………………………22
3.5.2 Emerging Trends……………….………………………………………..………………………………..24
4. ICT Use, Disasters and Developing Countries: Some Reflections..…27
4.1. Institutional and Cultural Barriers.……………………………………………………27
4.2. Data Standardisation and Quality Issues..………………………………………….27
4.3. ICT Capacity Deficits.……………………………………………………………………….28
4.4. Grounds for Optimism.……………………………………………………………………..28
5. Strategic Recommendations……………………………………………………..30
5.1. Ensuring Continuity in Challenged Environments.……………………………….30
5.2. Bringing about Inter-agency Coordination and Cooperation.………………..30
5.3. Maintaining Transparency and Accountability.……………………………………31
5. ...
Ways Forward in Efforts to Ameliorate Climate Change EffectsSIANI
This study was presented during the conference “Production and Carbon Dynamics in Sustainable Agricultural and Forest Systems in Africa” held in September, 2010.
1. Think Globally, Assess Regionally, Act Locally
D. Goldin and C. Kennel, cochairs; J. Boright, M.Clark, J. Falk, I. Serageldin, A. Zehnder, rapporteurs
Declaration of the Special Adjunct Session of the 2009 Science and Technology in Society Forum
“Developing a Framework for Regional Climate Change Impact Assessments and Local Action”,
Kyoto, October 3, 2009
Climate change, already here, will increase in coming decades. Greenhouse gas emissions are
running ahead of the worst-case scenario of IPCC, so that temperature will increase more rapidly
than expected. Aerosols, because they reflect sunlight back to space, have offset the temperature
increase expected from the greenhouse gas accumulation to date; as we reduce air pollution for
health and environment reasons, we will see an unavoidable increase of perhaps 2 degrees C,
regardless of what we do to reduce future emissions.
Mitigation aims to cut off global warming at its source by reducing emissions of greenhouse
gases, primarily carbon dioxide. Mitigation now seems harder than we once thought. Not only are
there serious political and economic difficulties, but it will take decades to deploy new energy
technologies on a global scale.
In these circumstances, NAS President R. Cicerone proposes that our strategy must be to “avoid
the unmanageable, and manage the unavoidable”. As we continue our vital efforts on mitigation,
we will have to adapt to the changes we cannot prevent.
Assessment of the impacts of present and future climate change is the first step to adaptation.
Assessment for adaptation differs from assessment for mitigation in one important aspect: key
adaptation decisions will be needed from very many local leaders, rather than from the relatively
smaller number of international leaders dealing with mitigation policy.
This fact defines the basic question before this special session of world leaders in science and
technology. How should the tools and institutions deployed to assess global climate change be
adapted to the needs of local decision-makers in hundreds of regions around the world? What
new social, institutional, technical, and financial innovations are needed?
Regional climate change impact assessments bridge the global and local, and can enlist local and
decision-makers in direct and culturally appropriate ways. Regional assessments help local
leaders see what the future holds for the things their populations care about, understand the
decisions they will need to make, and support their public communication. In addition, local
knowledge and monitoring are required to identify the uncertainties and critical triggers of the
climate system and anticipate the impacts.
Each region has a unique combination of interacting environmental, economic, and social factors,
and its own ways of reaching decisions. Local participation is essential, as is communicating in
terms local people understand. To earn the trust of local populations, each region should design
and carry out its own assessments, with international support but not direction.
Climate change is only one of the problems local leaders face. It often appears less pressing than
ongoing environmental degradation and resource depletion, or the need for social and economic
development. Even so, the universality of the climate problem has called forth a global
community of researchers and practitioners whose social techniques and technical tools can help
local leaders deal with the great problems of environment and development with which climate
2. change is intertwined.
Adaptation requires a systems approach that links the physical and biological aspects of climate
change to social response. It cannot be managed top-down. Integrated solutions should be sought
through linked innovation in science, technology, policy, politics, institutions, and finance. It will
have to be a distributed effort that is guided but not directed.
Knowledge Action Networks that focus on specific regions and impacts can link the global
science, technology, and policy communities to local initiatives. These are sponsored social
networks connecting the generators of pertinent knowledge with local decision makers. Modern
information techniques can ensure good communication within and between the global, regional,
and local levels.
Every region has knowledge leaders who can forge relationships with local decision-makers, but
often there aren’t enough of them. The critical mass sufficient to characterize the multiple
impacts of climate change and communicate them to decision makers is often lacking. Capacity
building is therefore a critical issue. Moreover, even where there is adequate human capacity,
regional science and policy communities often lack access to information and tools because of
bureaucratic obstacles and government security concerns. In these cases, independent
organizations that provide trustworthy information are needed. Here as elsewhere, there is room
for non-governmental initiatives.
Regional assessments and adjustments in action plans will be needed throughout this century.
Each region will have to monitor, model, assess, and decide, again and again. This need will
spark continuous improvement of observations, models, and information systems in order to
dissect and forecast the ongoing interacting changes.
We believe that global climate change assessments should be supplemented by a mosaic of
regional assessments of the impacts of climate change on natural and human systems.
We should not expect that the globe can be sub-divided neatly into non-overlapping regions with
sharp boundaries nor the regions to define the same geographical area for the different
assessments they need. Each physical, biological, and human system has a natural spatial
configuration that must be respected: the boundaries of assessment regions will be adapted to the
problem. We should think, therefore, of forming a complex, hierarchical network of loosely
connected, self-assembled regional assessments.
We need a new institutional framework for regional assessments and the knowledge action
networks that will carry them out. An international fund is needed to encourage the assembly and
support of these networks. The international science, technology, and policy community should
help with capacity building and technology transfer; standards and certification; and provision of
data, models and observations.
We suggest starting with water, because of its dominant role in human consumption, food
security, health, and natural disasters. The capacity to model and monitor exists, and can be
translated relatively easily. Moreover, every region and locality manages water, so there are
working decision makers with whom scientists can interact.
Understanding how different regions deal with science-based decision making for water may
provide insight into how the even more complex problems of ecology, health, and human
development can be addressed.