Please find below links to some aspects of disaster resilience that were in the news recently…
Recent emergencies/disasters
Volcanic eruption sees Iceland fishing town evacuated for second time in a month https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-14/volcano-erupts-in-iceland-posing-risk-to-fishing-town/103318838
Landslides in Carmen de Atrato, Colombia claim 18 lives, injure 30 https://watchers.news/2024/01/13/landslides-in-carmen-de-atrato-colombia-claim-18-lives-injure-30/
Major winter storm targets Midwest to Great Lakes with heavy snow and blizzard conditions, U.S. https://watchers.news/2024/01/13/major-winter-storm-targets-midwest-to-great-lakes-with-heavy-snow-and-blizzard-conditions-u-s/
Severe floods and landslides hit Rio de Janeiro, claiming 11 lives, Brazil https://watchers.news/2024/01/15/severe-floods-and-landslides-hit-rio-de-janeiro-claiming-11-lives-brazil/
Destructive winds, severe flooding as Tropical Cyclone “Belal” makes a direct hit on Reunion https://watchers.news/2024/01/15/destructive-winds-severe-flooding-as-tropical-cyclone-belal-makes-a-direct-hit-on-reunion/
Violent thunderstorms cause deadly floods in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa https://watchers.news/2024/01/16/violent-thunderstorms-cause-deadly-floods-in-kwazulu-natal-south-africa/
New mud volcanoes emerge in Trinidad, prompting evacuation plans https://watchers.news/2024/01/17/new-mud-volcanoes-emerge-in-trinidad-prompting-evacuation-plans/
Heavy rains, deadly landslide hit Mindanao, Philippines https://watchers.news/2024/01/18/heavy-rains-deadly-landslide-hit-mindanao-philippines/
Winter storms cause over 40 deaths across nine US states https://watchers.news/2024/01/18/winter-storms-cause-over-40-deaths-across-nine-us-states/
Volcanic activity worldwide 18 Jan 2024: Santiaguito volcano, Fuego, Popocatépetl, Lewotobi https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-activity/news/231816/Volcanic-activity-worldwide-18-Jan-2024-Santiaguito-volcano-Fuego-Popocatepetl-Lewotobi-Nevado.html
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
After a Decade of Planning, New York City Is Raising Its Shoreline https://e360.yale.edu/features/new-york-city-climate-plan-sea-level-rise
People fleeing climate change disasters should be considered refugees https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2024/01/people-fleeing-climate-change-disasters-should-be-considered-refugees-opinion.html
Climate Denial in American Politics https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Denial-in-American-Politics-ClimateBrawl/Kutney/p/book/9781032592794
Global Impact of Sea Level Rise on Coastal Fresh Groundwater Resources https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023EF003581
Climate change fuelled extreme weather in 2023; expect more records in 2024 https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-change-fuelled-extreme-weather-in-2023-expect-more-records-in-2024/
Fossil lobby claims voters want nuclear. Grid simulation shows it’s the last thing Australia needs https://reneweconomy.com.au/fossil-lobby-poll-claims-voters-want-nuclear-data-shows-its-the-last-thing-australias-grid-needs/
Clearing Skies: Opening a New Path on Climate and the Future https://e360.yale.edu/features/systemic-adaptation
‘Both sides of the ball’: Firms road-blocking climate reforms despite net-zero pledges https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2024/01/15/climate-greenwash-australia
WMO confirms that 2023 smashes global temperature record https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-confirms-2023-smashes-global-temperature-record
Think global—act local: the challenge of producing actionable knowledge on transboundary climate risks at the sub-national level of governance https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fclim.2023.1170142/full
Ten Extreme Climate Events of 2023 https://climateadaptationplatform.com/ten-extreme-climate-events-of-2023/
Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/17/greenland-losing-30m-tonnes-of-ice-an-hour-study-reveals
Role of atmospheric resonance and land–atmosphere feedbacks as a precursor to the June 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome event https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2315330121
Four factors that drove 2023’s extreme heat https://source.wustl.edu/2024/01/washu-expert-four-factors-that-drove-2023s-extreme-heat/
When it comes to climate change, we should be paying more attention to our oceans https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/ocean-warming-signals-1.7086410
Disaster risk reduction
How is counterfactual thinking integrated in organizational risk and resilience practices? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13669877.2023.2293040
Words into Action: Using Traditional and Indigenous Knowledges for Disaster Risk Reduction https://www.undrr.org/words-action-using-traditional-and-indigenous-knowledges-disaster-risk-reduction
An integrated risk-based early warning system to increase community resilience against disaster https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590061723000376
Loughborough researchers are part of new £6.5million flood research centre to combat climate change https://www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/news/2024/january/flood-research-centre-to-combat-climate-change/
What we learned about earthquakes in 2023 https://www.preventionweb.net/news/what-we-learned-about-earthquakes-2023
Trends in the occurrence of landslides in Nepal from 2011 to 2020 https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/nepal-landslide-trends
Seismicity and seismic monitoring of Canada’s volcanic zones https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10.1139/cjes-2023-0078
Dam failure flood risk in California https://californiawaterblog.com/2024/01/14/dam-failure-flood-risk-in-california-how-to-manage-low-probability-hazards-2/
Dutch researchers found that nowadays, when dropped on a random beach around the world, you only need to walk 390 meters on average to find the nearest road or building https://www.nioz.nl/en/news/beaches-and-dunes-globally-squeezed-by-roads-and-buildings
USGS scientists and our partners recently revealed the latest National Seismic Hazard Model, showing that nearly 75% of the United States could experience a damaging earthquake https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/new-usgs-map-shows-where-damaging-earthquakes-are-most-likely-occur-us
Geospatial big data offer a novel channel to observe time-sensitive, disaster-related information that can support effective disaster response https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781003308423-14/geoai-disaster-response-lei-zou-ali-mostafavi-bing-zhou-binbin-lin-debayan-mandal-mingzheng-yang-joynal-abedin-heng-cai
Giant offshore pumice deposit records a shallow submarine explosive eruption of ancestral Santorini https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01171-z
Four Ways to Adapt Roads in Central Asia to Climate Change https://www.adb.org/news/features/four-ways-adapt-roads-central-asia-climate-change
Rocking Our World: Understanding Human-Induced Earthquakes https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/fup/2024/fup_24_008-nature-studie-erdbeben-industrieaktivitaeten/index.html
UK resilience to flooding report https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/42888/documents/213370/default/
Deteriorating flood defences blamed on Environment Agency budget shortfalls https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/17/deteriorating-flood-defences-blamed-on-environment-agency-budget-shortfalls
FLOODTWIN https://www.ukri.org/news/digital-twin-projects-to-transform-environmental-science/
Big Earth Data for quantitative measurement of community resilience: current challenges, progresses and future directions https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/10.1080/20964471.2023.2273594
El Niño Ready Nations and Disaster Risk Reduction: 19 Countries in Perspective https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2325548X.2023.2277942
Coral bleaching, erosion and mass fish deaths in Far North Queensland after Tropical Cyclone Jasper https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-19/cyclone-jasper-coral-bleaching-daintree-great-barrier-reef/103361150
Evaluation of hydrological models on small mountainous catchments: impact of the meteorological forcings https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/28/261/2024/
Emergency Management
As new the Covid variant surges, what to know about testing and accuracy https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-variant-surge-testing-accuracy-rcna133699
DR Congo declares hydrological and ecological catastrophe https://watchers.news/2024/01/16/dr-congo-declares-hydrological-and-ecological-catastrophe/
Major coastal changes after M7.6 earthquake in Japan left 15 ports unusable, 58 damaged https://watchers.news/2024/01/17/major-coastal-changes-after-m7-6-earthquake-in-japan-left-15-ports-unusable-58-damaged/
‘Like a horror movie’: the deadly earthquake that changed California https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/16/northridge-earthquake-los-angeles-california-lessons-safety
Hot temperatures, few safeguards: wildfires could rekindle in Greece https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/greece-wildfires-climate-change-europe
A record 63 billion-dollar weather disasters hit Earth in 2023 https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/01/a-record-63-billion-dollar-weather-disasters-hit-earth-in-2023/
Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement
#NoNaturalDisasters – Hazards may be natural. Disasters are not https://www.undrr.org/our-impact/campaigns/no-natural-disasters
Communication of COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media by Physicians in the US https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2808358
Two years on, the Tonga tsunami shows effective risk communication saves lives https://www.preventionweb.net/news/two-years-tonga-tsunami-shows-effective-risk-communication-saves-lives
Advancing disaster risk communications https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825224000047
Fire moves fast. Plan ahead to save lives https://closeyourdoor.org/
Disaster psychology
Patients’ perceptions of climate-sensitive health counselling in primary care: Qualitative results from Germany https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13814788.2023.2284261
“The world has already ended”: Britt Wray on living with the horror and trauma of climate crisis https://thebulletin.org/premium/2024-01/the-world-has-already-ended-britt-wray-on-living-with-the-horror-and-trauma-of-climate-crisis/
Sociology and disasters
Spatiotemporal heterogeneity reveals urban-rural differences in post-disaster recovery https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-023-00139-4
Experiences of Veterans, Caregivers, and VA Home-Based Care Providers before, during, and Post-Hurricane Ian https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3417/9/1/10
Locked into a permanent position of vulnerability? Farmers’ trust and social capital with the government from Critical Disaster Studies perspectives https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-023-06383-2
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