Please find below links to recent disaster resilience news…
Recent emergencies/disasters
Heavy rain hits flooded parts of central and western NSW https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-05/heavy-rain-hits-central-and-western-nsw-flood/101501432
Central African Republic – Floods in 12 Prefectures Leave Thousands Displaced, 11 Dead https://floodlist.com/africa/central-african-republic-floods-june-october-2022
USA – Hundreds Rescued From Floods in Florida After Hurricane Ian https://floodlist.com/america/usa/hurricane-ian-florida-september-2022-update
Sydney on track for record annual rainfall of 2.2 metres as eastern states brace for flooding https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/05/sydneys-wettest-year-expected-as-inland-nsw-central-qld-and-parts-of-victoria-brace-for-flooding
Death toll from Hurricane Ian in U.S. exceeds 110, nearly 300,000 still without power https://english.news.cn/20221006/1cf09646cdcc457c8f9838d77c94599a/c.html
Thailand – Thousands Displaced by Floods as Rivers Rise https://floodlist.com/asia/thailand-floods-october-2022
Ghana – Hundreds of Homes Flooded in Greater Accra Region After Weija Dam Releases https://floodlist.com/africa/ghana-accra-weija-dam-floods-october-2022
Nigeria – Floods in Kogi “Humanitarian Tragedy” Says Governor https://floodlist.com/africa/nigeria-floods-kogi-october-2022
Trinidad and Tobago – One Missing After Flash Floods https://floodlist.com/america/trinidad-floods-october-2022
Volcanic activity worldwide 4 Oct 2022: Stromboli volcano, Fuego, Popocatépetl, Ibu, Reventador https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-activity/news/193455/Volcanic-activity-worldwide-4-Oct-2022-Stromboli-volcano-Fuego-Popocatepetl-Ibu-Reventador-Sa.html
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Shifting ocean currents are pushing more and more heat into the Southern Hemisphere’s cooler waters https://theconversation.com/shifting-ocean-currents-are-pushing-more-and-more-heat-into-the-southern-hemispheres-cooler-waters-189122
Satellites Can Accurately Take Earth’s Temperature https://eos.org/research-spotlights/satellites-can-accurately-take-earths-temperature
Heat Action Platform https://onebillionresilient.org/heat-action-platform/
Chief Heat Officers Face Rising Temperatures — and Expectations https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-03/urban-heat-officers-fight-rising-temps-and-slow-bureaucracy
Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00329-1
Stunning week of early coal closures opens path to 100 pct renewables https://reneweconomy.com.au/stunning-week-of-early-coal-closures-opens-path-to-100-pct-renewables/
Observations confirm model of sea-level change from Greenland melt https://discover.lanl.gov/news/0929-sea-level-change
Hurricane Ian: how climate change is making North Atlantic tropical storms worse https://theconversation.com/hurricane-ian-how-climate-change-is-making-north-atlantic-tropical-storms-worse-191547
Flooding ‘Calamity’ in Pakistan Prompts Call for Reparations https://www.theenergymix.com/2022/10/02/flooding-calamity-in-pakistan-prompts-call-for-reparations/
Ancient ice age valleys offer clues to future ice sheet change https://phys.org/news/2022-10-ancient-ice-age-valleys-clues.html
New oil and gas at odds with green goals https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63149957.amp
Solar and wind farms can hurt the environment. A new study offers solutions https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2022-10-06/solar-and-wind-farms-can-hurt-the-environment-a-new-study-offers-solutions-boiling-point
Megadroughts helped topple ancient empires. We’ve found their traces in Australia’s past, and expect more to come https://theconversation.com/megadroughts-helped-topple-ancient-empires-weve-found-their-traces-in-australias-past-and-expect-more-to-come-191770
US wind, solar tripled over the past decade: analysis https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3675708-us-wind-solar-tripled-over-the-past-decade-analysis/
Northern Hemisphere’s extreme summer drought ‘virtually impossible’ without human-made climate change https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/05/world/northern-hemisphere-drought-climate-intl/index.html
Seasonal land-ice-flow variability in the Antarctic Peninsula https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/16/3907/2022/
Climate simulation more realistic with Artificial Intelligence https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/realistischere-klimasimulation-dank-kuenstlicher-intelligenz
Disaster risk reduction
Time-dependent decrease in fault strength in the 2011–2016 Ibaraki–Fukushima earthquake sequence https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/232/2/788/6710376
Raising Warragamba Dam wall could save thousands: NSW government modelling https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/raising-warragamba-dam-wall-could-save-thousands-nsw-government-modelling-20221004-p5bn6g.html
4 innovations that can be part of India and Bangladesh’s flood defences https://www.thethirdpole.net/en/climate/4-innovations-that-can-be-part-of-india-bangladeshs-flood-defences/
UTSA researchers bolstering historic properties along Gulf Coast to withstand hurricanes https://www.utsa.edu/today/2022/10/story/researchers-work-to-preserve-historic-buildings-on-coast.html
A New Study Finds U.S. Future Floods Becoming More Frequent, Wider Spread, Yet Less Seasonal https://ou.edu/research-norman/news-events/2022/a-new-study-finds-us-future-floods-becoming-more-frequent-wider-spread-yet-less-seasonal
Hurricane Ian: forecasting of the coastal storm surge https://www.cmcc.it/article/hurricane-ian-forecasting-of-the-coastal-storm-surge
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet declares raising Warragamba Dam wall a ‘critical’ project to fund https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-05/raising-warragamba-dam-wall-critical-perrottet-says/101502516
Warragamba Dam: what’s driving the NSW government’s bid to raise the wall? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/06/warragamba-dam-whats-driving-the-nsw-governments-bid-to-raise-the-wall
An Integrated Framework for the Quantification of Road Network Seismic Vulnerability and Accessibility to Critical Services https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364104642_An_Integrated_Framework_for_the_Quantification_of_Road_Network_Seismic_Vulnerability_and_Accessibility_to_Critical_Services
Flood warnings have improved, but struggle to keep pace with a climate-wrecked environment https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/10/05/flood-warnings-take-action-extreme-weather/
Automatically detecting avalanches in satellite images https://www.slf.ch/en/news/2022/10/automatically-detecting-avalanches-in-satellite-images.html
Wildfire imagery reduces risk information-seeking among homeowners as property wildfire risk increases https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00505-7
Fighting wildfire with GPS data https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/news/2022/fighting-wildfire-with-gps-data.html
Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-4715-5
NSW government document changed to make impacts of raising Warragamba Dam wall ‘less definite’ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/07/nsw-government-document-changed-to-make-impacts-of-raising-warragamba-dam-wall-less-definite
Emergency management
More flooding on the way as BOM forecasts heavy rain from Northern Territory to Tasmania https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-04/more-flooding-bom-forecast-heavy-falls/101496026
Map of land flooded in Florida by Hurricane Ian https://gers.users.earthengine.app/view/nrt-conus
Ian is 6th-deadliest U.S. hurricane since 1980, and may be Florida’s deadliest since 1935 https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/10/deaths-from-ian-pass-100-91l-looms/
Is COVID-19 hurting your heart? A new study finds cardiac muscle damage in COVID patients https://www.salon.com/2022/10/03/is-19-hurting-our-hearts-a-new-study-finds-cardiac-muscle-damage-in-patients/
Global population skews male, but UN projects parity between sexes by 2050 https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/08/31/global-population-skews-male-but-un-projects-parity-between-sexes-by-2050/
Will there be a COVID winter wave? What scientists say https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03157-x
Hurricane Ian flooded a hospital and forced evacuations from dozens of nursing homes – many health facilities face rising risks from severe storms https://theconversation.com/hurricane-ian-flooded-a-hospital-and-forced-evacuations-from-dozens-of-nursing-homes-many-health-facilities-face-rising-risks-from-severe-storms-191648
Hurricane Ian’s Aftermath: A Rising Death Toll and Questions About Preparedness https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/10/05/hurricane-ian-preparedness/
Was The Forecast For Hurricane Ian Bad? Depends On Your Perspective https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2022/10/03/was-the-forecast-for-hurricane-ian-baddepends-on-your-perspective/
Devastation in Pakistan: Deadly floods displace millions https://europe.mercycorps.org/en-gb/blog/pakistan-deadly-floods-displace-millions
Pakistani PM says he should not have to beg for help after catastrophic floods https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/06/pakistani-pm-says-he-should-not-have-to-beg-for-help-after-catastrophic-floods
Disaster education, communications and engagement
Life-Saving Landslide Risk Communication in Puerto Rico https://hazards.colorado.edu/news/center-news/life-saving-landslide-risk-communication-in-puerto-rico
Climate teachers: rural women in Uganda trained their village to resist floods https://www.oneearth.org/rural-women-in-uganda-trained-their-village-to-resist-floods/
Psychology and disasters
Hurricane Ian survivor in Naples: ‘We will never come back to Florida’ https://news.yahoo.com/hurricane-ian-survivor-naples-never-164612755.html
Agent-based models of human response to natural hazards: systematic review of tsunami evacuation https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-022-05643-x
COVID has taken a greater toll on mental health among people from ethnic minorities – sadly this is no surprise https://theconversation.com/covid-has-taken-a-greater-toll-on-mental-health-among-people-from-ethnic-minorities-sadly-this-is-no-surprise-188679
Sociology and disasters
Mountain Resilience: A Systematic Literature Review and Paths to the Future https://bioone.org/journals/mountain-research-and-development/volume-42/issue-2/MRD-JOURNAL-D-21-00044.1/Mountain-Resilience–A-Systematic-Literature-Review-and-Paths-to/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-21-00044.1.full
How Hurricane Ian and other disasters are becoming a growing source of inequality – even among the middle class https://theconversation.com/how-hurricane-ian-and-other-disasters-are-becoming-a-growing-source-of-inequality-even-among-the-middle-class-191637
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