Please find below links to some aspects of disaster resilience that were in the news recently…
Recent emergencies/disasters
Hot, windy conditions a worry as Victoria blaze continues https://www.9news.com.au/national/bushfire-updates-major-fire-out-of-control-emergency-warning-flowerdale-victoria/7a49ddd4-2849-4301-b351-962fc3f1935b
Turkey earthquake: Deadly new tremor traps people under rubble https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64711228
Brazil – Death Toll Rises in Sao Paulo Floods and Landslides https://floodlist.com/america/brazil-sao-paulo-floods-update-february-2023
Philippines – 30,000 Displaced After Low-Pressure Area Causes Floods and Landslides https://floodlist.com/asia/philippines-floods-february-2023
Paraguay – Hundreds of Families Affected by Floods in Amambay https://floodlist.com/america/paraguay-floods-amambay-february-2023
South Africa – More Floods Leave 2 Dead, 5 Missing https://floodlist.com/africa/south-africa-floods-update-feberuary-2023
Volcanic activity worldwide 22 Feb 2023: Fuego volcano, Popocatépetl, Semeru, Shiveluch https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-activity/news/204813/Volcanic-activity-worldwide-22-Feb-2023-Fuego-volcano-Popocatepetl-Semeru-Shiveluch-Karangetan.html
Madagascar – Thousands Displaced by Tropical Cyclone Freddy https://floodlist.com/africa/madagascar-thousands-displaced-by-tropical-cyclone-freddy
Ecuador – Fatalities After Flooding in 5 Provinces https://floodlist.com/america/ecuador-floods-february-2023
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Unpriced climate risk and the potential consequences of overvaluation in US housing markets https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01594-8
Wet Bulb Globe Temperature: Indicating Extreme Heat Risk on a Global Grid https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022GH000701
#KeepItCool infographics https://www.cleancoolingcollaborative.org/toolkits_and_data/keep-it-cool-infographics/
France goes 31 days without rainfall, unprecedented in winter https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230221-france-goes-31-days-without-rainfall-unprecedented-in-winter
Florida’s Great Displacement https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-residents-moving-leaving-climate-change-refugees-hurricanes-flood-2023-2
XDI releases world-first comparison of every state’s physical climate risk https://xdi.systems/xdi-releases-world-first-comparison-of-every-states-physical-climate-risk/
Q&A: Cyclone Gabrielle’s biggest climate lessons for NZ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/qa-cyclone-gabrielles-biggest-climate-lessons-for-nz/7JHOAXYNQZF2FI25T6PA7S7VOI/
As Louisiana’s coast disappears, its historic communities are disappearing too https://grist.org/migration/louisiana-pointe-aux-chenes-great-displacement-book-excerpt-hurricane-managed-retreat/
Hurricanes are changing with the climate. Our words about them may need to change, too https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/02/hurricanes-are-changing-with-the-climate-our-words-about-them-may-need-to-change-too/
Record Low Ice at Great Lakes Seen in Before and After Images From Space https://www.newsweek.com/great-lakes-ice-cover-record-low-space-1782339
Disaster risk reduction
Australia faces unprecedented grassfires next summer ‘supercharged’ by global heating https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/22/australia-faces-unprecedented-grassfires-next-summer-supercharged-by-global-heating
Deconstructing plate tectonic reconstructions https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00384-8
Secrets of Earth’s inner core revealed by large quakes https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00496-1
The 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, Earthquake Sequence https://earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/index-turkey2023.html
CoastSat is an open-source software toolkit written in Python that enables users to obtain time-series of shoreline position at any coastline worldwide from 30+ years (and growing) of publicly available satellite imagery https://github.com/kvos/CoastSat
UK – Thousands of Trees to Be Planted at Flood Defence Project in Northern England https://floodlist.com/protection/trees-flood-defence-project-east-hull
Germany – Insurers Demand a Stop to Building New Homes in Flood-Risk Areas https://floodlist.com/europe/germany-stop-building-houses-flood-risk-areas
Flooded Home Buyback scheme helps wash away the pain for Queenslanders https://theconversation.com/flooded-home-buyback-scheme-helps-wash-away-the-pain-for-queenslanders-200242
Earthquake prone: how can we bring our riskiest buildings up to scratch? https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2023/02/22/Earthquake-prone-buildings-upgrades.html
Using dense Sentinel-2 time series to explore combined fire and drought impacts in eucalypt forests https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1018936/full
Prevention is a ‘no-brainer’: top UN disaster risk reduction official on Türkiye-Syria quakes https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/interview/2023/02/23/prevention-no-brainer-top-un-disaster-risk-reduction-official-turkiye-syria
Details of the CSIRO’s report on Lismore’s flood recovery and response https://www.lismorecitynews.com.au/story/8096725/revealed-key-details-in-csiros-flood-report/
Emergency management
Early warning systems and evacuation: rare and extreme versus frequent and small-scale tropical cyclones in the Philippines and Dominica https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/disa.12434
Italy and partners handover Situation Room to African Union Commission https://www.undrr.org/news/italy-and-partners-handover-situation-room-african-union-commission
Tech experts turn firefighters in battle against wildfires https://www.independent.ie/news/environment/tech-experts-turn-firefighters-in-battle-against-wildfires-42354536.html
Disaster education, communications and engagement
The benefits and negative impacts of citizen science applications to water as experienced by participants and communities https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wat2.1488
Justice in climate change education: a systematic review https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504622.2023.2181265
Psychology and disasters
Disaster fatigue as more rain forecast for cyclone-hit areas https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2023/02/22/disaster-fatigue-as-more-rain-forecast-for-cyclone-hit-areas-expert-reaction/
Characterizing the mental health and functioning of Canadian respiratory therapists during the COVID-19 pandemic https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20008066.2023.2171751
This qualitative analysis gave a voice to older adults (aged 59-65 years and 78-87 years) to share their experiences of the 2019/2020 Australian bushfires https://www.preventionweb.net/publication/older-adults-experiences-during-2019/2020-bushfires-path-through-life-project
Community members from Northern Rivers and South East Queensland share their stories of recovery twelve months on from the devastating 2022 floods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBDDpgIzhbg
Sociology and disasters
International humanitarian narratives of disasters, crises and Indigeneity https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/disa.12576
Ethical Guidelines for Post-Disaster Research https://resiliencechallenge.nz/outputs/ethical-guidelines-for-post-disaster-research/
As deadly flooding devastates more communities, often the poorest and most disinvested, residents are banding together to research the problems and press for solutions https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/02/flooding-is-pummeling-the-southeast-u-s-these-organizers-are-fighting-back/
Disaster Resilience News 