Please find below links to some aspects of disaster resilience that were in the news recently…
Recent emergencies/disasters
Death toll from US tornadoes rises to 26 as clean-up efforts begin https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-02/tonadoes-death-toll-rises-in-united-states/102176792
Very strong M7.0 earthquake hits Papua New Guinea https://watchers.news/2023/04/02/very-strong-m7-0-earthquake-hits-papua-new-guinea/
Indonesia – Floods in Central Kalimantan Damage 4,000 Homes https://floodlist.com/asia/indonesia-floods-central-kalimantan-april-2023
Latvia – Augšdaugava Communities Isolated After Daugava River Floods https://floodlist.com/europe/latvia-augsdaugava-daugava-river-floods-april-2023
Pakistan – 11 Dead as Rain and Flash Floods Cause Houses to Collapse in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa https://floodlist.com/asia/pakistan-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-floods-march-april-2023
Democratic Republic of the Congo – 20 Killed in North Kivu Landslide https://floodlist.com/africa/democratic-republic-of-the-congo-20-killed-in-north-kivu-landslide
Ethiopia – 240,000 Impacted by Heavy Rains and Floods, 29 Dead, Says UN https://floodlist.com/africa/ethiopia-floods-march-april-2023
Kenya – More Fatalities After Floods in South https://floodlist.com/africa/kenya-more-fatalities-after-floods-in-south
Italy – Deadly Flash Floods in Calabria https://floodlist.com/europe/italy-flash-floods-calabria-april-2023
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Australia has a carbon price for industry – and it may infuse greater climate action https://reneweconomy.com.au/australia-has-a-carbon-price-for-industry-and-it-may-infuse-greater-climate-action/
‘Slipping through our fingers’: New Zealand scientists distraught at scale of glacier loss https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/01/slipping-through-our-fingers-new-zealand-scientists-distraught-at-scale-of-glacier-loss
Back-to-Back Hurricanes Could Become Common by 2100 https://eos.org/articles/back-to-back-hurricanes-could-become-common-by-2100
‘Losing your home is a massive thing’: how the climate crisis came to Norfolk https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/03/losing-your-home-is-a-massive-thing-how-the-climate-crisis-came-to-norfolk
‘Tornado alley’ is shifting farther into the US east, climate scientists warn https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/04/us-tornadoes-global-heating-climate-science?CMP=share_btn_tw
Climate risks could prompt a rethink of planned SEQ dam upgrades https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/climate-risks-could-prompt-a-rethink-of-planned-seq-dam-upgrades-20230329-p5cwfk.html
Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01150-1
For Uganda’s Vanishing Glaciers, Time Is Running Out https://e360.yale.edu/features/rwenzoris-mount-stanley-africa-glaciers-climate-change
In Fiji, the climate crisis is no longer off in the future – it’s a daily reality https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-06/fiji-climate-change-moving-villages-vunidogoloa/102186670
Disaster risk reduction
A new book examines the extent of biodiversity loss caused by Australia’s Black Summer wildfires and what lessons our country must learn https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the-burning-of-australia-s-nature
Historical Hurricane Tracks – GIS Map Viewer https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/historical-hurricane-tracks-gis-map-viewer
In 5 charts: continued high losses from natural catastrophes in 2022 https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/sigma-research/sigma-2023-01/5-charts-losses-natural-catastrophes.html
Extreme flooding controlled by stream network organization and flow regime https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01155-w
International Journal of Wildland Fire https://www.publish.csiro.au/wf#CurrentIssue
New UNC study quantifies $562M in financial risk from Hurricane Florence using novel modeling approach that evaluates risk of mortgage default and property abandonment https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/new-unc-study-quantifies-562m-in-financial-risk-from-hurricane-florence-using-novel-modeling-approach-that-evaluates-risk-of-mortgage-default-and-property-abandonment/
Satellites reveal hotspots of global river extent change https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37061-3
Why the U.S. leads the world in weather catastrophes https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/us-leads-world-weather-catastrophes-rcna77898
Flood risk in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: A consideration of flood defences in a broadscale hydraulic model https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfr3.12907
The timing of decreasing coastal flood protection due to sea-level rise https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01616-5
A systematic review of natural flood management modelling: Approaches, limitations, and potential solutions https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jfr3.12899
Importance of catchment hydrological processes and calibration of hydrological-hydrodynamic rainfall-runoff models in small rural catchments https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfr3.12901
Flood vulnerability and risk assessment of historic urban areas: Vulnerability evaluation, derivation of depth-damage curves and cost–benefit analysis of flood adaptation measures applied to the historic city centre of Tomar, Portugal https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfr3.12908
Disaster risk out of control despite global agreement to stop them https://www.undrr.org/news/disaster-risk-out-control-despite-global-agreement-stop-them
UC geography study finds detention basins often work best https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2023/04/uc-geography-study-finds-detention-basins-often-work-best.html
Emergency management
The UN Secretary-General has called for every person on Earth to be protected by early warning systems within five years by 2027 https://www.undrr.org/early-warning
England’s automated flood alerts to be permanent despite inaccuracy warnings https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/04/englands-automated-flood-warning-system-to-stay-despite-inaccuracy-warnings
Disaster education, communications and engagement
Indigenous knowledge offers solutions, but its use must be based on meaningful collaboration with Indigenous communities https://theconversation.com/indigenous-knowledge-offers-solutions-but-its-use-must-be-based-on-meaningful-collaboration-with-indigenous-communities-201670
Psychology and disasters
Personality Traits and Types of Housing Recovery after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/7/5679
The effects of secondary stressors, social identity, and social support on perceived stress and resilience: Findings from the COVID-19 pandemic https://psyarxiv.com/8vk63/
Geopsychiatry and social psychiatry https://academic.oup.com/book/43957/chapter-abstract/369594815
Survey: 37% of evacuees who fled Fukushima may have PTSD https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14861912
Sociology and disasters
Social Safety Theory: Conceptual foundation, underlying mechanisms, and future directions https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17437199.2023.2171900
Tornado destruction highlights low-income disaster preparedness challenges https://abcnews.go.com/US/tornado-destruction-highlights-low-income-disaster-preparedness-challenges/story
Bonding, bridging, linking social capital as mutually reinforcing elements in adaptive capacity development to flood hazard: Insights from rural Bangladesh https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096323000244
This study illuminates how congregations adapted to an unfolding crisis in real-time and reveals areas of organizational learning and vulnerability https://wmpllc.org/ojs/index.php/jem/article/view/3381
Trust but verify: Validating new measures for mapping social infrastructure in cities https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221209552200205X
New Conceptual Model of Social Sustainability: Review from Past Concepts and Ideas https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/7/5350
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