Dear colleague,
Please find links below to some aspects of disaster resilience that were in the news this week…
Recent emergencies/disaster
Tornadoes touch down in southern Alberta, as floods and tennis ball-sized hail hit Calgary
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-thunderstorm-1.5611497
Turkey – Deadly Flash Floods in Ankara
http://floodlist.com/asia/turkey-floods-ankara-june-2020?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Pakistan – at Least 7 Killed in Flash Floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
http://floodlist.com/asia/pakistan-flash-floods-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-june-2020
France – Dozens Rescued After Flash Floods in Corsica
http://floodlist.com/europe/france-flash-floods-ajaccio-corsica-june-2020
Indonesia – Over 1,000 Homes Damaged by Floods in Gorontalo Province
http://floodlist.com/asia/indonesia-over-1000-homes-damaged-by-floods-in-gorontalo-province
Mexico – Floods in Veracruz After Storm Dumps 221mm of Rain
http://floodlist.com/america/mexico-floods-veracruz-june-2020
Flash floods leave 1 500 houses damaged or destroyed, 5 400 affected in Gorontalo, Indonesia
https://watchers.news/2020/06/15/flash-floods-leave-1-500-houses-damaged-or-destroyed-5-400-affected-in-gorontalo-indonesia/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Severe storm leaves trail of damage, flooding across city, southern Alberta
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/severe-storm-leaves-trail-of-damage-flooding-across-city-southern-alberta
Nepal – Landslide in Parbat Leaves 8 Dead
http://floodlist.com/asia/nepal-landslide-parbat-june-2020?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Nigeria – Dozens of Homes Destroyed After Floods in Akwa Ibom
http://floodlist.com/africa/nigeria-floods-akwa-ibom-june-2020
Indonesia – Deadly Floods and Landslides Hit South Sulawesi
http://floodlist.com/asia/indonesia-floods-south-sulawesi-june-2020?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Nigeria – 3 Dead or Missing After Flash Floods Destroy a Bridge in Kwara State
http://floodlist.com/africa/nigeria-floods-kwara-june-2020
Hungary and Czech Republic – 1 Dead, Dozens Evacuated After Storms Trigger Flash Floods
http://floodlist.com/europe/hungary-czech-storms-floods-june-2020
Côte d’Ivoire – Deadly Floods Hit Abidjan and South
http://floodlist.com/africa/cote-divoire-floods-abidjan-june-2020?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Volcanic activity worldwide 18 Jun 2020: Popocatépetl volcano, Semeru, Dukono, Reventador
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-activity/news/105524/Volcanic-activity-worldwide-18-Jun-2020-Popocatepetl-volcano-Semeru-Dukono-Reventador-Clevelan.html
Guatemala and Honduras – Floods and Landslides Leave 2 Dead, Thousands Affected
http://floodlist.com/america/guatemala-honduras-floods-landslides-june-2020?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
China – Deadly Floods and Mudslides in Sichuan
http://floodlist.com/asia/china-floods-sichuan-june-2020?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Thailand – Wind Storms and Flash Floods in North
http://floodlist.com/asia/thailand-floods-june-2020?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Economics of climate adaptation: Identifying cost-effective adaptation measures to climate change
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72235
Cost of extreme weather due to climate change is severely underestimated
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72267
Adapting to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72251
Financing for climate adaptation – an overview of current regimes
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72221
Scaling local and community-based adaptation
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72263
Recurring floods in Eastern Africa amidst projections of frequent and extreme climatic events for the region
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72274
Innovation in climate change adaptation: does it reach those who need it most?
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72272
Island ‘drowning’ is not inevitable as sea levels rise
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72279
A journey into Antarctica: the unavoidable signs of global heating
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2020/jun/11/a-journey-into-antarctica-the-unavoidable-signs-of-global-heating?CMP=share_btn_tw
Climate worst-case scenarios may not go far enough, cloud data shows
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/13/climate-worst-case-scenarios-clouds-scientists-global-heating
Ocean Wave Interactions with Sea Ice: A Reappraisal
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-fluid-010719-060301
Why Southern Ocean’s monster waves will get even bigger
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12339103
2020 likely to be the warmest year on record globally
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/warmest-year-on-record-2020-likely/
Tuvalu wields new data in the fight against climate change
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72281
Tropical cyclone motion in a changing climate
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/17/eaaz7610.full
Free course: Climate Change: The Science and Global Impact
https://sdgacademy.org/course/climate-change-the-science-and-global-impact/
Research Roundup: Depicting Change Across Earth’s Frozen Places
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2020/06/15/research-roundup-depicting-change-across-earths-frozen-places/
Equity investors must pay more attention to climate change physical risk
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72321
Coordinating climate finance in Kenya: technical measures or political change?
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72313
Adapting to the uncertain: a different climate strategy
https://www-mottmac-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.mottmac.com/amp/views/adapting-to-the-uncertain-a-different-climate-strategy
Climate crisis: alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/17/climate-crisis-alarm-at-record-breaking-heatwave-in-siberia
Cost of extreme weather due to climate change is severely underestimated
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-cost-of-extreme-weather-due-to-climate-change-is-severely-underestimated
Climate change: Oil and gas sector ‘to halve emissions by 2030’
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-53051850
Risk of massive wildfires continues to grow in California
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/risk-of-massive-wildfires-continues-to-grow
Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72343
Disaster risk reduction
How has Taiwan kept its coronavirus infection rate so low?
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72233
A new mindset for resilience in the face of concurrent climate and health risks
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72269
Mumbai launches flood early warning system
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72273
New study shows wildfires increasing in size and frequency across Victoria
https://climate.anu.edu.au/research/research-stories/new-study-shows-wildfires-increasing-size-and-frequency-across-victoria
Thousands fled for their lives when two Michigan dams collapsed. More disasters are coming, experts say
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/thousands-fled-their-lives-when-two-michigan-dams-collapsed-more-n1230841
Financing increased for early warning systems in Small Island Developing States
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72305
The next once-a-century pandemic is coming sooner than you think – but COVID-19 can help us get ready
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72302
A model to predict flood loss in mountain areas
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72300
Atlas of global surface water dynamics
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72293
Implementation of property level flood risk adaptation (PLFRA) measures: choices and decisions
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72282
Infiltration efficiency and subsurface water processes of a sustainable drainage system and consequences to flood management
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72290
National earthquake research programme (UDAP) success stories
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72285
National platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction: UNDRR regional office for Europe and Central Asia overview
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72289
Australia had more supersized bushfires creating their own storms last summer than in previous 30 years
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jun/16/in-2019-20-australia-had-more-supersized-bushfires-creating-their-own-storms-pyrocumulonimbus-pyrocb-than-in-previous-30-years
Scientists find much earlier birth date for Earth’s tectonic plates
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=300705&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1#.Xt0tXQj4Zj4.twitter
Taking a landslide’s temperature to avert catastrophe
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72322
Spatial dependence of floods shaped by spatiotemporal variations in meteorological and land‐surface processes
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020GL088000
How We Know a Volcano Is Restless in Remote Alaska
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/how-we-know-a-volcano-is-restless-in-remote-alaska
Disaster risk reduction in the Republic of Kiribati
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72340
Emergency management
How we evacuated millions from a cyclone during a pandemic
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72241
Capacity assessment of tsunami preparedness in the Indian Ocean
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72260
When wildfires break out, this elite team of ‘smokejumpers’ parachute in
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/05/smokejumpers-parachute-to-fight-wildfires-in-alaska-backcountry/
Emergency management ministers agree to review the national disaster recovery funding arrangements
https://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/davidlittleproud/Pages/Emergency-management-ministers-agree-to-review-the-National-disaster-recovery-funding-arrangements.aspx
Whakaari/White Island: Volcanic Alert Level lowered to Level 1, minor volcanic unrest continues
https://www.geonet.org.nz/vabs/3k7E1gF9B9gyRbQK5SMBWT
COVID-19 could push 100 million people into extreme poverty, says World Bank
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/world-bank-coronavirus-covid19-extreme-poverty
Uganda wants people to leave flooded wetlands – and not come back
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72304
Partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation to create early insight into crises
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72216
California utility PG&E pleads guilty to 84 wildfire deaths
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53072946
This Is How Firefighters Are Preparing to Battle Wildfires During a Pandemic
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/06/this-is-how-firefighters-are-preparing-to-battle-wildfires-during-a-pandemic/
Smoke risk: Scientists warn forest fires could worsen coronavirus harm
https://news.trust.org/item/20200617185133-am577/
When does response end and recovery begin? Exploring preparation and planning to support community’s resilient recovery
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72324
Disaster education, communications and engagement
Prints (pre-photograph) that show Japan disasters
https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/tokugawa/items/1.0222873#p0z-5r0F:
Revised hazard posters for Mt Ruapehu 2020 – 12 June 2020
https://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/News-and-Events/Media-Releases/Revised-hazard-posters-for-Mt-Ruapehu-2020-12-June-2020
Business preparedness: Calxa Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNV98x8mzbk&feature=youtu.be
What’s in a name: lessons from a Firewise USA site
https://community.nfpa.org/community/fire-break/blog/2020/06/12/whats-in-a-name-lessons-from-a-firewise-usa-site
Training module: Understanding disaster risk management
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72287
Community engagement for COVID-19 infection prevention and control: A rapid review of the evidence
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72316
Be climate, environmental and natural hazard smart
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72311
Training module on cyclone risk management
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72330
Psychology and disasters
Differentiation and Integration of Evacuees with Regard to Lifting the Evacuation Order Following the Nuclear Power Plant Accident: A Case Study of Naraha and Tomioka Towns, Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328673544_Differentiation_and_Integration_of_Evacuees_with_Regard_to_Lifting_the_Evacuation_Order_Following_the_Nuclear_Power_Plant_Accident_A_Case_Study_of_Naraha_and_Tomioka_Towns_Futaba_District_Fukushima_Pr
A method for monetising the mental health costs of flooding
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72296
Sociology and disasters
Adaptive social protection: Building resilience to shocks
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72268
The Philippines – Impact of early warning early action: Exploring the interplay between El Niño-induced drought, conflict and gender
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72266
Exploring network properties of social media interactions and activities during Hurricane Sandy
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342158107_Exploring_network_properties_of_social_media_interactions_and_activities_during_Hurricane_Sandy
Drivers and barriers of societal transformation in natural hazard management focusing on attempts to integrate multi-functional protection schemes in the context of flood and avalanche hazards
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72301
This case study makes the case for the effectiveness of early warning and the role of young people in flood preparedness in Jakarta, Indonesia
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/email/url.php?eid=72308
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