A new research project aims to tackle problems and improve natural disaster emergency preparedness and response in countries badly affected by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis.
A major study into the resilience of UK airports has found that the agility of airports to adapt to both long-term strategic changes and short-term operational shocks is critical in sustaining their competitive advantage and business prosperity.
While the economic cost of natural disasters has not increased much on average, averages can be deceptive. The costs of major disasters have increased to a disproportionately larger extent than those of lesser events, and these major disasters have become far more expensive, according to an international team of researchers.
On October 23-24, the inaugural meeting of the US-Caribbean Resilience Partnership working group will take place in Barbados. The meeting will bring together 18 Caribbean countries, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, the Regional Security System, international donors, and non-governmental partners, including universities and the private sector.
On 10th October, emergency services and disaster management experts from Safety Region IJsselland gathered in Kampen, Netherlands, to take part in a major table-top exercise to train and plan together for future disasters.
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, welcomed the launch of the global Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York.
The UK Government has announced plans to develop a new mobile counter-drone unit to be deployed to drone-related incidents and major events across the UK, as part of the government’s ‘Counter-Drone’ strategy.
London Prepared is consulting on a preliminary resilience assessment which will provide information for a resilience strategy for London. The deadline for taking part is 15th October 2019.
The United States’ electric grid is becoming more vulnerable to cyber attacks — particularly those involving industrial control systems that support grid operations; this is one of the key findings of a new GAO report
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