Please find below links to some aspects of disaster resilience that were in the news recently…
Recent emergencies/disasters
Tropical Cyclone “Lincoln” hits Gulf of Carpentaria, heavy rainfall and damaging winds continue, Australia https://watchers.news/2024/02/17/tropical-cyclone-lincoln-hits-gulf-of-carpentaria-heavy-rainfall-and-damaging-winds-continue-australia/
Tropical Storm “Akará” forms off Rio de Janeiro as first TS in South Atlantic since 2019 https://watchers.news/2024/02/19/tropical-storm-akara-forms-off-rio-de-janeiro-as-first-ts-in-south-atlantic-since-2019/
Destructive avalanche hits Afghanistan, leaving at least 25 people dead https://watchers.news/2024/02/19/destructive-avalanche-hits-afghanistan-leaving-at-least-25-people-dead/
Severe thunderstorm hits Sydney, lightning strikes injure 4, set 3 homes on fire, Australia https://watchers.news/2024/02/19/severe-thunderstorm-hits-sydney-lightning-strikes-injure-4-set-3-homes-on-fire-australia/
Large tornado hits West Java Province, damaging more than 60 homes and injuring 22, Indonesia https://watchers.news/2024/02/21/large-tornado-hits-west-java-province-damaging-more-than-60-homes-and-injuring-22-indonesia/
Thousands urged to evacuate as wildfire rages near Ballarat, Victoria https://watchers.news/2024/02/22/thousands-urged-to-evacuate-as-wildfire-rages-near-ballarat-victoria/
Volcanic activity worldwide 21 Feb 2024: Santiaguito volcano, Fuego, Popocatépetl, Semeru, Ibu https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-activity/news/234713/Volcanic-activity-worldwide-21-Feb-2024-Santiaguito-volcano-Fuego-Popocatepetl-Semeru-Ibu-Duk.html
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
February on course to break unprecedented number of heat records https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/17/february-on-course-to-break-unprecedented-number-of-heat-records
Adjusted Global Temperature Data https://tamino.wordpress.com/2024/02/16/adjusted-global-temperature-data/
From Newsworthiness to News Usefulness in Climate Change Research https://eos.org/opinions/from-newsworthiness-to-news-usefulness-in-climate-change-research
Climate Denial in American Politics https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Denial-in-American-Politics-ClimateBrawl/Kutney/p/book/9781032592794
Climate change is forcing Australians to weigh up relocating. How do they make that difficult decision? https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-forcing-australians-to-weigh-up-relocating-how-do-they-make-that-difficult-decision-221971
Geraldton smashes 70-year-old high with peak of 49.3C making it officially hottest day on record https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/weather/geraldton-smashes-70-year-old-high-with-peak-of-493c-making-it-officially-hottest-day-on-record–c-13638445
US EIA Predicts Solar Will Account for 58% of New Electricity Generation Capacity in US in 2024 https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/17/us-eia-predicts-solar-will-account-for-58-of-new-electricity-generation-capacity-in-us-in-2024/
Very cool: trees stalling effects of global heating in eastern US, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/17/us-east-trees-warming-hole-study-climate-crisis
Climate Council is calling for heatwaves to be named, similar to how we name tropical cyclones, as a way of helping avoid more deaths https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/time-to-name-the-silent-killer-heatwaves/
Climate change raises risk of forest fires in Taiwan https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/5097861
Fearsome threesome: how a trio of climate drivers is baking Australia’s west and leaving the east soaked https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/18/australia-wild-unpredictable-weather-rain-cyclone-heatwaves
Rain Comes to the Arctic, With a Cascade of Troubling Changes https://e360.yale.edu/features/arctic-rainfall-climate-change
Xinjiang records lowest temperature in history at -52.3 °C (-62.1 °F), China https://watchers.news/2024/02/20/xinjiang-records-lowest-temperature-in-history-at-52-3-c-62-1-f-china/
Tuvalu residents are fighting for their home in the face of worsening tides and climate change https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/programs/nesia-daily/kato-ewekia/103483948
Naracoorte Caves study shows Australian ice age was wetter, more animal-friendly, than first thought https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-19/australia-climate-history-study-naracoorte-caves-ice-ages/103455378
Sinking skyscrapers, new beaches: Chicago faces the climate crisis https://www.ft.com/content/5eaba8d7-949f-4d71-9512-102f1bcfef82
Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas https://atlas.climate.copernicus.eu/atlas
Causally-Informed Deep Learning to Improve Climate Models and Projections https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JD039202
Unveiling Climate Colonialism https://tiredearth.com/articles/unveiling-climate-colonialism
Translating climate risk assessments into more effective adaptation decision-making: The importance of social and political aspects of place-based climate risk https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S146290112400039X
Adapting to Climate Risk? Local Population Dynamics in the United States https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41885-024-00141-9
‘Staggering’ rise of rooftop solar to put all other power generation in the shade, report finds https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-21/rooftop-solar-cells-in-australia-to-outperform-demand/103489806
Climate Protection for Migration Prevention: Comparison of Policy Discourses on Climate Change and Migration in Austria, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13876988.2024.2304835
Elevated Southern Hemisphere moisture availability during glacial periods https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06989-3
Kenya has become a world leader in renewable energy https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/kenya-geothermal-energy-renewable-power/
“Power to the people:” Traditional owners’ clean energy plea gains climate urgency https://onestepoffthegrid.com.au/power-to-the-people-traditional-owners-clean-energy-plea-in-wake-of-cyclone-jasper/
On the frontline of the climate crisis: Atoll nations and coastal communities with catastrophic threats to their homes and livelihoods also face serious legal implications https://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/frontline-climate-crisis-atoll-nations-and-coastal-communities-catastrophic-threats
Australia’s first mobile cooling hub is ready for searing heat this summer – and people who are homeless helped design it https://theconversation.com/australias-first-mobile-cooling-hub-is-ready-for-searing-heat-this-summer-and-people-who-are-homeless-helped-design-it-218829
What Is the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience, and How Can Countries Move It Forward? https://www.iisd.org/articles/deep-dive/uae-framework-global-climate-resilience
‘More extreme flooding’ warning from region’s ex Environment Agency expert https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/more-extreme-flooding-warning-regions-28676606
Despite known coastal cooling trend, risk of deadly wildfires in central Chile increasing with changing land management in a warming climate https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/despite-known-coastal-cooling-trend-risk-of-deadly-wildfires-in-central-chile-increasing-with-changing-land-management-in-a-warming-climate/
Groundbreaking new data can make us better understand glaciers https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1035127
A single Antarctic heatwave or storm can noticeably raise the sea level https://theconversation.com/a-single-antarctic-heatwave-or-storm-can-noticeably-raise-the-sea-level-223768
Climate change has increased premature birth risk by 60% https://www.earth.com/news/climate-change-has-increased-premature-birth-risk-by-60/
Disaster risk reduction
Time to Update the Split-Sample Approach in Hydrological Model Calibration https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021WR031523
New EQFL metric evaluates the impact of earthquakes on countries over the past five centuries https://watchers.news/2024/02/18/new-eqfl-metric-evaluates-the-impact-of-earthquakes-on-countries-over-the-past-five-centuries/
Advanced modeling uncovers seamounts as the source of Japan’s tsunami earthquakes https://watchers.news/2024/02/18/advanced-modeling-uncovers-seamounts-as-the-source-of-japans-tsunami-earthquakes/
‘This is not a Lahaina problem’: Once unthinkable, frequent fires are Hawaii’s new normal https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/hawaii-fire-scientists-warn-escalating-wildfire-threat/index.html
Reclassifying historical disasters: From single to multi-hazards https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723077501
Employing the generalized Pareto distribution to analyze extreme rainfall events on consecutive rainy days in Thailand’s Chi watershed: implications for flood management https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/28/801/2024/
How to mitigate flood events similar to the 1979 catastrophic floods in the lower Tagus https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/24/609/2024/
What controls the tail behaviour of flood series: rainfall or runoff generation? https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/28/833/2024/
Tracking urban flood exposure: Global trends since 1985 https://blogs.worldbank.org/sustainablecities/tracking-urban-flood-exposure-global-trends-1985
Review article: Drought as a continuum: memory effects in interlinked hydrological, ecological, and social systems https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2024/egusphere-2024-421/
After two phases of testing and more than 100 simulated earthquakes, the 10-story TallWood building perched atop the largest shake table in the world remained intact https://temblor.net/temblor/test-results-are-in-tallwood-building-a-resounding-success-15987/
Disaster infrastructure resilience https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/immersive-story/2024/01/31/building-beyond-tomorrow
New detection method aims to warn of landslide tsunamis https://www.gi.alaska.edu/news/new-detection-method-aims-warn-landslide-tsunamis
Emergency Management
Key findings from our 2023 workshop on strategic and collaborative approaches to mitigating wildfire in British Columbia https://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/what-we-do/initiatives/mitigating-wildfire/2023-what-we-heard.html
‘Zombie Fires’ burning at an alarming rate in Canada https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68228943
Early warnings for all (EW4All) https://www.undrr.org/early-warnings-for-all
Firefighter Fatalities in the United States https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/firefighter-fatalities/
Southern California Residents Stay Vigilant for Mudslides https://www.govtech.com/em/preparedness/southern-california-residents-stay-vigilant-for-mudslides
Pomonal bushfire residents who lost everything look for rentals in tight market https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-17/grampians-bushfire-victims-seeking-rentals-housing-crisis/103477758
Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement
Promoting public health equity through strategic information campaigns on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of pandemic health information campaigns on Twitter in Houston, Texas https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rhc3.12294
Can a Video Game Prepare Us for the Big One? https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2024/02/cascadia-video-game-earthquake-big-one
Cascadia9 game https://www.cascadia9game.org/
Immersive VR: empowering kids to survive in fire, flood, and war https://www.preventionweb.net/news/immersive-vr-empowering-kids-survive-fire-flood-and-war
Disaster psychology
Largest post-pandemic survey finds trust in scientists is high https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00420-1
Wildfires linked to surge in mental health-related emergency department visits, study shows https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-wildfires-linked-surge-mental-health.html
Why Trauma Affects Some People Differently Than Others https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/transcending-the-past/202402/why-trauma-affects-some-people-differently-than-others
Sociology and disasters
Understanding the spatial disparity in socio-economic recovery of coastal communities following typhoon disasters https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969724009707
The Mediating Effect of Psychological Resilience between Individual Social Capital and Mental Health in the Post-Pandemic Era: A Cross-Sectional Survey over 300 Family Caregivers of Kindergarten Children in Mainland China https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/13/2/122#
Why storms like this one will make solving homelessness even harder for L.A. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-18/homeless-tiny-homes-extreme-weather-climate-change
Risk inclusion of vulnerable people during a climate-related disaster: A case study of people with hearing loss facing wildfires https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212420924000979
Failure to prioritise elderly, disabled in Gisborne evacuations, research project reveals https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/509646/failure-to-prioritise-elderly-disabled-in-gisborne-evacuations-research-project-reveals
Income Inequality Linked to Social Vulnerability to Disasters https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2024/02/cre-for-equity.html
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