The latest resilience news from around the world
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How can societies better predict or prevent catastrophes such as wildfires and earthquakes? How can communities be helped to recover more quickly from disasters? To help find answers to these and other questions about natural hazards, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 11 new grants
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Droughts in various countries and multiple landfalling storms in Asia-Pacific were the theme of the month.
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The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking members for a new Community Resilience Panel.
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The Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council was formed earlier this year to bring together supply chain risk management and resiliency practitioners with luminaries and thought leaders
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Researchers at Princeton and MIT have used computer models to show that severe tropical cyclones could hit a number of coastal cities worldwide that are widely seen as unthreatened by such powerful storms.
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A team of European researchers has developed a model to simulate the impact of tsunamis generated by earthquakes and applied it to the Eastern Mediterranean. The results show how tsunami waves could hit and inundate coastal areas in southern Italy and Greece.
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A new resilience strategy for the City of New Orleans was launched at a ceremony on 25th August. 'Resilient New Orleans' provides a concrete, strategic roadmap for the City of New Orleans to build urban resilience.
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To mark the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a new risk bulletin from Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) – ‘Hurricane Katrina 10: Catastrophe Management And Global Windstorm Peril Review’ – analyzes windstorm risks and losses and examines the lessons learned
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A new initiative has been launched by a group of like-minded businesses to help lessen the impact of natural disasters in New Zealand and enable better recovery when they strike.
- New study finds that equatorial regions may be more prone to disruptive space weather than previously thought
- Future Africa power supply risks assessed
- Australian government invests in disaster resilience
- Natural catastrophe caused economic losses were the lowest for over a decade during the first half of 2015
