Please find below links to some aspects of disaster resilience that were in the news recently…
Recent emergencies/disasters
Alberta announces state of emergency as 25,000 flee out-of-control wildfires in western Canada https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-07/25000-flee-wildfires-in-western-canada/102314630
DR Congo – Dozens Feared Dead After Floods Cause “Immeasurable Damage” in South Kivu https://floodlist.com/africa/dr-congo-floods-south-kivu-may-2023
Heavy rains affect nearly 500 000 people, devastate crop fields in Jiangxi, China https://watchers.news/2023/05/08/heavy-rains-affect-nearly-500-000-people-devastate-crop-fields-in-jiangxi-china/
Tornado strikes Anamur district, Turkey, injuring over a dozen people and destroying banana greenhouses https://watchers.news/2023/05/08/tornado-strikes-anamur-district-turkey-injuring-over-a-dozen-people-and-destroying-banana-greenhouses/
Intense explosive activity, multiple pyroclastic flows trigger evacuations around Fuego volcano, Guatemala https://watchers.news/2023/05/05/intense-explosive-activity-multiple-pyroclastic-flows-trigger-evacuations-around-fuego-volcano-guatemala/
DR Congo – Death Toll From South Kivu Floods Rises to Almost 400 https://floodlist.com/africa/dr-congo-floods-south-kivu-may-2023-update
Swiss village of Brienz told to flee imminent monster rockslide https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65533681
DR Congo – Many Feared Missing After Landslide in North Kivu https://floodlist.com/africa/dr-congo-landslide-north-kivu-may-2023
New Zealand – More Floods in Auckland After 50mm of Rain in 1 Hour https://floodlist.com/australia/new-zealand-floods-auckland-may-2023
Very strong M7.6 earthquake hits Tonga https://watchers.news/2023/05/10/very-strong-m7-6-earthquake-hits-tonga/
Devastating wildfires engulf southern Russia, claiming lives and property https://watchers.news/2023/05/10/devastating-wildfires-engulf-southern-russia-claiming-lives-and-property/
Flood levels in Somerset villages ‘highest on record’ as floating cars abandoned https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/flood-levels-somerset-villages-highest-8427970
Sierra Leone – 7 Fatalities After Floods Hit Freetown https://floodlist.com/africa/sierra-leone-floods-freetown-may-2023
Volcanic activity worldwide 10 May 2023: Popocatépetl volcano, Krakatau, Semeru, Ibu, Dukono https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-activity/news/211120/Volcanic-activity-worldwide-10-May-2023-Popocatepetl-volcano-Krakatau-Semeru-Ibu-Dukono-Nevad.html
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022 https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/72/12/1149/6764747
Political strategies for climate and environmental solutions https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01109-5
How will climate change impact wildfires in Scotland? https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23480493.will-climate-change-impact-wildfires-scotland/
April Mediterranean heatwave ‘almost impossible’ without climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/05/april-mediterranean-heatwave-almost-impossible-without-climate-crisis
Solar Installation Growth Expected To Reach 700 GW By 2025 https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/27/solar-installation-growth-expected-to-reach-700-gw-by-2025/
How will climate change affect Latin America? Scientists respond to IPCC report https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/how-will-climate-change-affect-latin-america-scientists-respond-to-ipcc-report/
Thermal structure of proglacial lakes in Patagonia https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016JF004084
As Torres Strait Islands face a ‘climate crisis’, there are calls for the government to ‘see for themselves’ https://www.sbs.com.au/language/nitv-radio/en/article/the-torres-strait-islands-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-climate-change-battle/3yie0fduv
Why making El Niño forecasts in the spring is especially anxiety-inducing https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/why-making-el-ni%C3%B1o-forecasts-spring-especially-anxiety-inducing
Extreme April heat in Spain, Portugal, Morocco & Algeria almost impossible without climate change https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-april-heat-in-spain-portugal-morocco-algeria-almost-impossible-without-climate-change/
IPCC data on coastal flood risk on BlueEarth https://www.deltares.nl/en/news/ipcc-data-on-coastal-flood-risk-on-blueearth
Exceptional stratospheric contribution to human fingerprints on atmospheric temperature https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300758120
Quantifying the contribution of forcing and three prominent modes of variability to historical climate https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/19/943/2023/
Black summer bushfires may have caused rare ‘triple dip’ La Niña, study suggests https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/11/black-summer-bushfires-may-have-caused-rare-triple-dip-la-nina-study-suggests
Greenland glacier discovery shows sea level projections are too low https://www.axios.com/2023/05/09/northwest-greenland-petermann-glacier-sea-level
Climate Change Tracker https://climatechangetracker.org/
Record number of serious outdoor fires tackled in England in summer 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/11/firefighters-in-england-called-to-record-number-of-serious-outdoor-blazes-last-summer
May 2023 ENSO update: El Niño knocking on the door https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/may-2023-enso-update-el-ni%C3%B1o-knocking-door
The UN Campaign for Individual Action https://www.un.org/actnow
Climate Central analysis shows that human-caused climate change made the record-breaking spring heat forecast in parts of the western U.S. and Canada up to 5 times more likely https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert
Global Mean Sea Level rise rate https://sealevel.colorado.edu/
Disaster risk reduction
Deterministic & probablistic risk https://www.preventionweb.net/understanding-disaster-risk/key-concepts/deterministic-probablistic-risk
Qualitative assessment of resilience in construction projects https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/CI-10-2022-0265/full/html
When it rains, it really does pour https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/news/2023/when-it-rains-it-really-does-pour.html
Europe’s advanced new weather satellite will support Early Warnings for All https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/europe%E2%80%99s-advanced-new-weather-satellite-will-support-early-warnings-all
Beyond avoided losses: capitalizing on the secondary benefits of investments in urban flood protection https://www.preventionweb.net/news/beyond-avoided-losses-capitalizing-secondary-benefits-investments-urban-flood-protection
Lismore floods aftermath debate asks if land management could slow flow of water https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-05-08/lismore-flood-aftermath-could-land-management-slow-water-flow-/101881144
The US National Risk Index has undergone a large data update, which changes the way FEMA assesses risk https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/
The Destructive Earthquake Doublet of 6 February 2023 in South‐Central Türkiye and Northwestern Syria: Initial Observations and Analyses https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/article/3/2/105/623200/The-Destructive-Earthquake-Doublet-of-6-February
Risk, Reward, and Resilience Framework: Integrative Policy Making in a Complex World https://academic.oup.com/jiel/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jiel/jgad009/7071723
GEB v0.1: a large-scale agent-based socio-hydrological model – simulating 10 million individual farming households in a fully distributed hydrological model https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/16/2437/2023/
NT water allocation draft risks ‘irreversible damage’ to country and culture, critics say https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-09/traditional-owners-condemn-latest-draft-nt-water-allocation-plan/102316084
Providing weekly forecast estimates of the magnitude and timing of annual production and fuel across coterminous U.S. rangelands https://toolkit.climate.gov/tool/fuelcast
When impervious cover doesn’t predict urban runoff: Lessons from distributed overland flow modeling https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002216942300481X
Tjuwanpa Women Rangers’ Burning Story https://www.indigenousdesertalliance.com/stories/tjuwanpa-women-rangers-burning-story
High-Level Meeting on the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework https://sendaiframework-mtr.undrr.org/high-level-meeting-midterm-review-sendai-framework-disaster-risk-reduction-2015-2030
Emergency management
‘It’s still killing and it’s still changing.’ Ending COVID-19 states of emergency sparks debate https://www.science.org/content/article/who-ends-pandemic-emergency-covid-19-deaths-fall
Alberta wildfire evacuees frustrated by a lack of information and timelines for return https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-wildfire-evacuees-frustrated-by-a-lack-of-information-and-timelines-for-return-1.6835570
Disaster education, communications and engagement
How to create local climate change projects with your students https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/climate-change-education-resources-/
WildfireSAFE Mobile Application https://globalcmrpt.wordpress.com/2023/05/05/wildfiresafe-mobile-application/
Video: Hidden Volcano Abyss https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/hidden-volcano-abyss/
‘Like Nagasaki’: devastating wildfires will only get worse, new book warns https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/10/fire-weather-john-valliant-new-book-alberta-wildfire
Psychology and disasters
Solidarity under heterogenous adaptation costs: Experimental evidence on coping after climate hazards https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0095069623000426
Better prepared but less resilient: the paradoxical impact of frequent flood experience on adaptive behavior and household resilience https://nhess.copernicus.org/preprints/nhess-2023-64/nhess-2023-64.pdf
Mental health of vulnerable groups experiencing a drought or bushfire: A systematic review https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-mental-health/article/mental-health-of-vulnerable-groups-experiencing-a-drought-or-bushfire-a-systematic-review/1210CEB039D453C489F78F720BD11A00
Sociology and disasters
Post-Disaster Recovery Challenges of Public Housing Residents: Lumberton, North Carolina After Hurricane Matthew https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10780874231167570
CAPE Vulnerability Index https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540261.2020.1738093
Understanding how people’s lives are impacted by gender norms, roles and relations within a given culture and society is critical to understanding and reducing disaster risk https://www.undrr.org/gender
Community coherence during COVID-19 -a pilot study https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370591235_Community_coherence_during_COVID-19_-a_pilot_study
Fostering Socio-Ecological Resilience to Wildfire by Interconnecting Knowledge Systems at Cal Poly Humboldt https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/hjsr/vol1/iss45/6/
From labelling weakness to liberatory praxis: a new theory of vulnerability for disaster studies https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-10-2022-0208/full/html
In the Arena: Contesting Disaster Creation in Cities https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/disa.12588
Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures https://www.dukeupress.edu/residual-governance
Capacitating urban governance and planning systems to drive transformative resilience https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210670723002482
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