Please find below links to some aspects of disaster resilience that were in the news recently…
Recent emergencies/disasters
Cameroon – Severe Floods Hit Buea, South West Region https://floodlist.com/africa/cameroon-floods-south-west-region-march-2023
Malawi – 180,000 Displaced, 200 Still Missing in Cyclone Freddy Floods https://floodlist.com/africa/malawi-cyclone-freddy-floods-update-march-2023
Indonesia – 4 Dead, 7 Missing After Floods and Landslides in Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi https://floodlist.com/asia/indonesia-floods-landslides-java-sumartra-sulawesi-march-2023
Turkey – 14 Dead, 5 Missing in Şanlıurfa and Adıyaman Floods https://floodlist.com/asia/turkey-sanliurfa-adiyaman-floods-march-2023-update
Brazil – Three People Killed in Landslide in Ceará State https://floodlist.com/africa/brazil-landslide-floods-ceara-march-2023
Syria – Floods Cause Severe Damage to Displacement Camps https://floodlist.com/asia/syria-floods-march-2023
Strong M6.5 earthquake hits Hindu Kush at intermediate depth, Afghanistan https://watchers.news/2023/03/21/strong-m6-5-earthquake-hits-hindu-kush-at-intermediate-depth-afghanistan/
Vigorous eruption at Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia https://watchers.news/2023/03/21/vigorous-eruption-at-nevado-del-ruiz-colombia/
Fires west of Alice Springs spread, burning an estimated 100,000 hectares https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-03-22/fires-west-of-alice-springs-burn-through-100000-hectares/102130878
Tornado damages 5 buildings and 17 vehicles in Greymouth, New Zealand https://watchers.news/2023/03/23/tornado-damages-5-buildings-and-17-vehicles-in-greymouth-new-zealand/
Los Angeles hit by strongest tornado in three decades: ‘It got very loud’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/23/los-angeles-hit-by-tornado
Volcanic activity worldwide 22 Mar 2023: Santiaguito volcano, Fuego, Popocatépetl, Semeru, Kilauea https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-activity/news/207225/Volcanic-activity-worldwide-22-Mar-2023-Santiaguito-volcano-Fuego-Popocatepetl-Semeru-Kilauea.html
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
What is the IPCC AR6 synthesis report and why does it matter? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/19/what-is-the-ipcc-ar6-synthesis-report-and-why-does-it-matter
Solar and wind dominate India’s capacity additions in 2022 https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/india-data-story-2023/
NSW swelters in record heat as firefighters battle blazes https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/19/nsw-swelters-in-record-heat-as-firefighters-battle-blazes
We’re sailing towards catastrophe, but we can still turn this ship around https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8125640/climate-change-report-says-we-can-still-turn-this-ship-around/
Tonga Eruption May Temporarily Push Earth Closer to 1.5°C of Warming https://eos.org/articles/tonga-eruption-may-temporarily-push-earth-closer-to-1-5c-of-warming
Chinese coal boom a ‘direct threat’ to 1.5C goal, analysts warn https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/03/14/chinese-coal-boom-a-direct-threat-to-1-5c-goal-analysts-warn/
Cyclone Freddy was the most energetic storm on record. Is it a harbinger of things to come? https://theconversation.com/cyclone-freddy-was-the-most-energetic-storm-on-record-is-it-a-harbinger-of-things-to-come-201771
What Australia could do with $368 billion on the very real climate threat https://reneweconomy.com.au/what-australia-could-do-with-368-billion-on-the-very-real-climate-threat/
Samoa PM urges world to save Pacific people from climate crisis obliteration https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/19/samoa-pm-fiame-naomi-mataafa-urges-world-to-save-pacific-people-from-climate-crisis-obliteration
AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023 https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/
Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/20/ipcc-climate-crisis-report-delivers-final-warning-on-15c
NASA Uses 30-Year Satellite Record to Track and Project Rising Seas https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-uses-30-year-satellite-record-to-track-and-project-rising-seas
What ocean for tomorrow? Marine ecosystems in a changing climate – Insights from the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report https://ocean-climate.org/en/what-ocean-for-tomorrow-marine-ecosystems-in-a-changing-climate-insights-from-the-ipccs-sixth-assessment-report/
Leaders urged to act on Western Sydney ‘urban heat island’ crisis https://wsroc.com.au/media-a-resources/releases/leaders-urged-to-act-on-western-sydney-urban-heat-island-crisis
Australia’s 116 new coal, oil and gas projects equate to 215 new coal power stations https://theconversation.com/australias-116-new-coal-oil-and-gas-projects-equate-to-215-new-coal-power-stations-202135
UN says Australia must quit coal by 2030, reach net zero by 2040, no new coal or gas https://reneweconomy.com.au/un-says-australia-must-quit-coal-by-2030-reach-net-zero-by-2040/
Ice-sheet collapse and sea-level rise at the Bølling warming 14,600 years ago https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10902
Changing intensity of hydroclimatic extreme events revealed by GRACE and GRACE-FO https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-023-00040-5
IPCC: ‘Severe consequences’ of further warming in disaster-hit Himalayas https://www.thethirdpole.net/en/climate/ipcc-severe-consequences-of-further-warming-in-disaster-hit-himalayas/
Disaster risk reduction
‘We need to stop the water’: A California town’s frantic fight to save itself https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-18/california-towns-frantic-fight-floods
How a map helps reduce risk in Madagascar https://www.medair.org/stories/how-a-map-helps-reduce-risk-in-madagascar/
Pumps in key New Orleans flood protection system corroded in 5 years. They were meant to last 35 https://www.nola.com/news/environment/hunt-for-corrosion-causes-in-new-orleans-flood-protection/article_b4e36ec2-c513-11ed-95d6-6b6388983e64.html
Historic UN water conference comes amid surge in floods, droughts https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/historic-un-water-conference-comes-amid-surge-floods-droughts
How well does a convection-permitting regional climate model represent the reverse orographic effect of extreme hourly precipitation? https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/27/1133/2023/
Measuring global streamflow with Planet’s satellite imagery https://www.planet.com/pulse/measuring-global-streamflow-with-planets-satellite-imagery/
2022 Disasters in Numbers https://www.preventionweb.net/publication/2022-disasters-numbers
Hydroclimatic time series features at multiple time scales https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022169423001026
Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire in a south-western Australian forested ecosystem https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.14305
A global initiative to ensure that everyone on Earth is protected by early warnings by 2027 https://www.undrr.org/news/early-warnings-all-initiative-scaled-action-ground
Deadly disasters in southeastern South America: flash floods and landslides of February 2022 in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/23/1157/2023/
A quake of unthinkable proportions is due in Istanbul. Residents ask if the city is prepared https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/17/middleeast/turkey-earthquake-istanbul-mime-intl
Glacial Lakes Can Unleash Deadly Deluges. How Risky Are They? https://eos.org/articles/glacial-lakes-can-unleash-deadly-deluges-how-risky-are-they
This paper builds on a classical urban economics model to investigate the effects of flood management policies in a theoretical monocentric city https://www.preventionweb.net/publication/efficiency-and-equity-urban-flood-management-policies-systematic-urban-economics
The relationship between multiple hazards and deprivation using open geospatial data and machine learning https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-023-05897-z
Researchers design bushfire safe room that can withstand almost 1,000 degrees Celsius https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-23/bushfire-safe-room-qut-keeping-people-valuables-safe/102125512
After Cyclone Freddy, how to strengthen Malawi’s disaster preparedness? https://chinadialogue.net/en/climate/after-cyclone-freddy-how-to-strengthen-malawis-disaster-preparedness/
Assessing directional vulnerability to wildfire https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-023-05885-3
Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and landslides: How Aotearoa New Zealand manages a medley of hazards https://temblor.net/temblor/new-zealand-hazards-gill-jolly-gns-15132/
Emergency management
Rebuilding historic urban neighborhoods after disasters: Balancing disaster risk reduction and heritage conservation after the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420923000444
Cyclone Freddy death toll in southeast Africa surpasses 500 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/19/cyclone-freddy-death-toll-in-southeast-africa-surpasses-500
Residents in flood-ravaged Gulf of Carpentaria enter second month without work https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-20/gulf-of-carpentaria-employment-shortages-flood-impact/102118276
COVID-19: A look back on where the US succeeded and where we didn’t https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-19-back-us-succeeded-didnt/story
Fearmongering about people fleeing disasters is a dangerous and faulty narrative https://theconversation.com/fearmongering-about-people-fleeing-disasters-is-a-dangerous-and-faulty-narrative-200894
Earthquake funding gap exposes larger fault lines for emergency aid sector https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2023/03/21/turkiye-syria-earthquake-funding-gap-emergency-aid-sector
‘Uncharted territory’: South Sudan’s four years of flooding https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/bentiu-south-sudan-city-besieged-by-water-4168544
Disaster education, communications and engagement
What is a heatwave? https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/heatwave/
Enhancing earthquake preparedness knowledge and practice among Nepalese immigrants residing in Japan https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31729-y
World Meteorological Day – 23 March 2023 https://public.wmo.int/en/resources/world-meteorological-day/future-of-weather-climate-water-across-generations-2023
What is the Emergency Alert System and when will we get messages? https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/65026368
Psychology and disasters
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916221148147
Emotions matter: EMPOWER-ing youth by integrating emotions of (chronic) disaster risk into strategies for disaster preparedness https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420923001164
COVID did not affect happiness around the world, study reveals https://news.sky.com/story/covid-did-not-affect-happiness-around-the-world-study-reveals-12838836
Sociology and disasters
What happened in Pajaro isn’t just a ‘natural’ disaster https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-14/flood-california-levee-atmospheric-river-monterey-county
Trust but verify: Validating new measures for mapping social infrastructure in cities https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221209552200205X#f0025
How Has the COVID-19 Crisis Transformed Entrepreneurs into Sustainable Leaders? https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/6/5358
The corona pandemic and participatory governance: Responding to the vulnerabilities of secondary school students in Europe https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420923000882
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