Please find below links to some aspects of disaster resilience that were in the news recently…
Recent emergencies/disasters
Magnitude 3.1 earthquake strikes Appin region on the outskirts of Sydney’s south-west https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-18/magnitude-3-1-earthquake-hits-appin-region-north-of-douglas-park/102493976
Major magnitude 6.4 earthquake – 120 km east of San José del Cabo, Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico, on Sunday, Jun 18, 2023 https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/7688818/2023-06-18/20h30/magnitude6-Mexico.html
Hundreds of buildings ‘uninhabitable’ after France hit by earthquake https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/hundreds-of-buildings-uninhabitable-after-france-hit-by-earthquake/ar-AA1cGERd
Estonian rescue workers tackle 37 landscape and forest fires at weekend https://news.err.ee/1609011332/estonian-rescue-workers-tackle-37-landscape-and-forest-fires-at-weekend
Nepal – 5 Dead, 29 Feared Missing After Floods and Landslides in Koshi Province https://floodlist.com/asia/nepal-floods-koshi-province-june-2023
Brazil – 11 Dead, Thousands Displaced After Floods and Landslides in Rio Grande Do Sul https://floodlist.com/america/brazil-floods-rio-grande-do-sul-june-2023
What we’re watching: Weekly disaster update, June 20 https://disasterphilanthropy.org/blog/what-were-watching-weekly-disaster-update-june-20-2/
Volcanic activity worldwide 22 Jun 2023: Fuego volcano, Popocatépetl, Semeru, Reventador, Mayon https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-activity/news/214228/Volcanic-activity-worldwide-22-Jun-2023-Fuego-volcano-Popocatepetl-Semeru-Reventador-Mayon-Ne.html
Hailstorm injures almost 100 at Louis Tomlinson concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado https://watchers.news/2023/06/22/hailstorm-injures-almost-100-at-louis-tomlinson-concert-at-red-rocks-amphitheater-in-colorado/
India – Over 100,000 Hit by Floods in 20 Districts of Assam https://floodlist.com/asia/india-floods-assam-june-2023
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Sea Level Rise – Map Viewer https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/sea-level-rise-map-viewer
Summer Heat Waves Could Cause Blackouts Across the Country https://eos.org/articles/summer-heat-waves-could-cause-blackouts-across-the-country
State of the Global Climate in 2022 https://public.wmo.int/en/our-mandate/climate/wmo-statement-state-of-global-climate
Sea Level Through a Porthole https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5114
WMO, C3S release sombre findings in joint State of the Climate in Europe 2022 report https://climate.copernicus.eu/wmo-c3s-release-sombre-findings-joint-state-climate-europe-2022-report
The Fastest-Warming Continent, Europe Has Already Heated by More Than 2 Degrees C https://e360.yale.edu/digest/europe-fastest-warming-continent-climate-change
States Greatly Underestimate Extreme Heat Hazards: Study https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/states-greatly-underestimate-extreme-heat-hazards-study/
Protecting the Ozone Layer Is Delaying Arctic Melting https://eos.org/articles/protecting-the-ozone-layer-is-delaying-arctic-melting
Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01691-8
Antarctica’s sea ice growth is at record lows. But it’s more complicated than just climate change https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/antarctic-ice-melting-record-climate/
Is climate change outpacing our ability to predict extreme heatwaves? https://theconversation.com/is-climate-change-outpacing-our-ability-to-predict-extreme-heatwaves-207925
Texas steam bath continues with record-breaking heat https://www.axios.com/2023/06/21/texas-heat-wave-continues-records
Underestimated climate risks from population ageing https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-023-00398-z
El Niño May Break a Record and Reshape Weather around the Globe https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/el-nino-may-break-a-record-and-reshape-weather-around-the-globe/
Saving lives from extreme heat: Lessons from the deadly 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave https://theconversation.com/saving-lives-from-extreme-heat-lessons-from-the-deadly-2021-pacific-northwest-heat-wave-206737
MONASH Simple Climate Model https://www.climate.gov/teaching/resources/monash-simple-climate-model-35756
A brief introduction to climate change and torrential rainstorms https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/06/a-brief-introduction-to-climate-change-and-torrential-rainstorms/
Himalayan glaciers on track to lose up to 75% of ice by 2100, report says https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/himalayan-glaciers-track-lose-up-75-ice-by-2100-report-2023-06-20/
Aircon wide adoption to fight the heat in India and Europe, a risk for a dramatic rise in emissions https://www.cmcc.it/article/aircon-wide-adoption-to-fight-the-heat-in-india-and-europe-a-risk-for-a-dramatic-rise-in-emissions
Disaster risk reduction
We need a new approach to wildfires https://dailymontanan.com/2023/06/18/we-need-a-new-approach-to-wildfires/
Continental plates more unstable than previously thought https://watchers.news/2023/06/18/continental-plates-more-unstable-than-previously-thought/
When homes flood, who retreats and to where? We mapped thousands of FEMA buyouts and found distance and race play a role https://theconversation.com/when-homes-flood-who-retreats-and-to-where-we-mapped-thousands-of-fema-buyouts-and-found-distance-and-race-play-a-role-206590
How controlled burns could limit megafires in California, Oregon, and Washington https://phys.org/news/2023-06-limit-megafires-california-oregon-washington.html
Can Canada Contain Conflagration? https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/185853
Excess Parking Produces Land Loss, Flood Woes, Heat Islands for Cities https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/06/18/excess-parking-produces-land-loss-flood-woes-heat-islands-for-cities/
Common threads: what we can learn from analyzing multiple disasters https://floodresilience.net/blogs/what-we-can-learn-from-analyzing-disasters/
Irrigation in the Earth system https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-023-00438-5
Dust in the Wind: Forecasting Storms with AI https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/dust-wind-forecasting-storms-ai
Data and digital maturity for disaster risk reduction: Informing the next generation of disaster loss and damage databases https://www.undrr.org/publication/data-and-digital-maturity-disaster-risk-reduction-informing-next-generation-disaster
Paving the way for private-sector engagement on MHEWS https://www.undrr.org/news/paving-way-private-sector-engagement-mhews
Next-Generation Fire And Vegetation Modeling For A Hot And Dry Future https://fas.org/publication/next-generation-fire-and-vegetation-modeling-for-a-hot-and-dry-future/
FluViSat https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/fluvisat-details
Thousands of Americans are leaving homes in flood-risk areas. But where are they moving to?https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/21/us/fema-home-buyouts-flood-risk-climate
Insurers Flee California As Catastrophic Wildfires Become The Norm https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183476500/insurers-flee-california-as-catastrophic-wildfires-become-the-norm
Flood risk rising despite below-average monsoonhttps://www.icimod.org/flood-risk-rising-despite-below-average-monsoon/
Before the colonists came, we burned small and burned often to avoid big fires. It’s time to relearn cultural burning https://theconversation.com/before-the-colonists-came-we-burned-small-and-burned-often-to-avoid-big-fires-its-time-to-relearn-cultural-burning-201475
Emergency management
Autonomy Is Key for Fast Aerial Firefighting Response https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2023-06-17/autonomy-key-fast-aerial-firefighting-response
Wildfire smoke puts heat on hospital admissions https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-023-00099-4
Fire-prone Australia relies on mostly unpaid, local brigades to defend against disaster. Canada could look to them for lessons as climate change heats up https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-australia-wildfire-response/
Reducing the vulnerability of tourists to tsunami: challenges for decision-makers https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-023-06045-3
Equipment and reconnaissance: How Europe is arming itself against forest fires https://www.indonewyork.com/breaking/equipment-and-reconnaissance-how-europe-is-arming-itself-against-forest-h89678.html
Colombian City Pioneers Path to “Early Warnings for All” https://eos.org/articles/colombian-city-pioneers-path-to-early-warnings-for-all
Disaster education, communications and engagement
Early years education teachers’ perceptions of nature of science https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500693.2023.2168139
Americans’ confidence in science dropped in 2022: survey https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4055026-americans-confidence-in-science-dropped-in-2022-poll/
#NoNaturalDisasters in the workplace: Improving how we talk about disasters at work https://www.preventionweb.net/publication/nonaturaldisasters-workplace-improving-how-we-talk-about-disasters-work
Here’s how you can help protect your property from wildfire, say safety experts https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/how-to-protect-your-property-from-wildfire-1.6874413
Apple earthquake survival kit https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102689005
Open for Business™ program for small business owners. This program not only reduces potential disaster loses but also assists businesses to reopen quickly should disaster strike https://www.iclr.org/small-business/
Disaster psychology
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 90 cohort studies of social isolation, loneliness and mortality https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01617-6
Sociology and disasters
Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2022.2120810
Can group-based strategies increase community resilience? Longitudinal predictors of sustained participation in Covid-19 mutual aid and community support groups https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jasp.12995
Displacement: integrating social and experience- and perception-related aspects in risk assessment https://www.cimafoundation.org/en/news/displacement-integrating-social-and-experience-and-perception-related-aspects-in-risk-assessment/
How inequality shapes your experience of a heatwave https://theconversation.com/how-inequality-shapes-your-experience-of-a-heatwave-207774
Influence of personal and collective social capital on flood preparedness and community resilience: Evidence from Old Fadama, Ghana https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212420923002704
Disaster Resilience News 