Please find below links to some aspects of disaster resilience that were in the news recently…
Recent emergencies/disasters
Severe thunderstorms hit Kansas and Oklahoma with strong winds, baseball-sized hail and tornadoes https://watchers.news/2024/05/20/severe-thunderstorms-kansas-oklahoma-strong-winds-baseball-sized-hail-and-tornadoes/
Fresh floods in Afghanistan kill at least 60 after heavy rain brings devastation https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/fresh-flooding-in-afghanistan-people-dead-after-heavy-rain-brings-devastation
Deadly Houston windstorm estimated to have caused $5B to $7B in damage, AccuWeather tells ABC13 https://abc13.com/post/houston-tornado-power-outage-chief-meterologist-jon-porter-damage-costs/14833883/
Multiple homes destroyed in Fort Nelson wildfire, officials say https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/homes-destroyed-fort-nelson-wildfire-1.7209035
Volcanic activity worldwide 22 May 2024: Santiaguito volcano, Fuego, Popocatépetl, Semeru, Dukono https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano-activity/news/242526/Volcanic-activity-worldwide-22-May-2024-Santiaguito-volcano-Fuego-Popocatepetl-Semeru-Dukono-.html
Italy hit by severe flooding after heavy rain https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9xz8w2p8l8o
Violent hailstorm paralyzes the city of Gniezno, Poland https://watchers.news/2024/05/21/gniezno-hailstorm-poland-may-2024/
Massive tornadoes strike Iowa, including Greenfield and Carbon, causing major damage and casualties https://watchers.news/2024/05/22/iowa-tornado-damage-greenfield-may-2024/
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
Biden-Harris Administration invests $4.55 million for community heat resilience through Investing in America agenda https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/biden-harris-administration-invests-4-point-55-million-for-community-heat-resilience
Closure of Australia’s biggest coal-fired power station may be delayed while renewables catch up https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/21/eraring-coal-fired-power-station-closure-delay-renewable-energy
The world’s benchmark climate monitoring station passes a major milestone https://research.noaa.gov/2024/05/20/the-worlds-benchmark-climate-monitoring-station-passes-a-major-milestone/
AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023 https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/
Delhi under Red alert as extreme temperatures strike northwest India https://watchers.news/2024/05/18/delhi-under-red-alert-heatwave-northwest-india/
CMIP6 Models Rarely Simulate Antarctic Winter Sea-Ice Anomalies as Large as Observed in 2023 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109265
Sea levels are starting to rise faster. Here’s how much South Florida is expecting https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-change/article288522659.html
Powering Australia with nuclear energy would cost roughly twice as much as renewables, CSIRO report shows https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-22/nuclear-power-double-the-cost-of-renewables/103868728
Anthropogenic and atmospheric variability intensifies flash drought episodes in South Asia https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01390-y
Delhi orders schools to close early for holidays as temperatures hit 47.4C https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/delhi-orders-schools-to-close-early-heatwave-india
What is the state of the European climate? https://www.climateforesight.eu/articles/what-is-the-state-of-the-european-climate/
Climate change made the deadly heatwaves that hit millions of highly vulnerable people across Asia more frequent and extreme https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-change-made-the-deadly-heatwaves-that-hit-millions-of-highly-vulnerable-people-across-asia-more-frequent-and-extreme/
The macroeconomic impact of climate change: Global vs. local temperature https://www.preventionweb.net/publication/macroeconomic-impact-climate-change-global-vs-local-temperature
How Miami-Dade County is protecting public housing residents from dangerous heat waves https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/05/how-miami-dade-county-is-protecting-public-housing-residents-from-dangerous-heat-waves/
Extreme Heat Takes a Toll on Californians’ Health https://www.ppic.org/blog/extreme-heat-takes-a-toll-on-californians-health/
Climate change is a human rights issue https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-a-human-rights-issue-228156
Report highlights turning point as clean energy accounts for 30% of global power supply: ‘Faster than anyone thought possible’ https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/renewable-energy-electricity-world-report-trends/
What you need to know about record-breaking heat in the Atlantic https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/05/what-you-need-to-know-about-record-breaking-heat-in-the-atlantic/
In Two New Studies, Scientists See Signs of Fundamental Climate Shifts in Antarctica https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20052024/antarctica-fundamental-climate-shifts-studies/
Autumn and winter storm rainfall in the UK and Ireland was made about 20% heavier by human-caused climate change https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/autumn-and-winter-storms-over-uk-and-ireland-are-becoming-wetter-due-to-climate-change/
Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report
Disaster risk reduction
Temporary Seismic Network in the Metropolitan Area of Rome (Italy): New Insight on an Urban Seismology Experiment https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/article-abstract/doi/10.1785/0220230290/637016/Temporary-Seismic-Network-in-the-Metropolitan-Area
A recipe for why and how to set up and sustain an experimental catchment https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.15163
Reply to Comment on ‘Self-thinning forest understoreys reduce wildfire risk, even in a warming climate’ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad40c1
Reconstruction of long-term hydrologic change and typhoon-induced flood events over the entire island of Taiwan https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221458182400154X
Understanding disaster risk: foundational concepts and principles https://www.preventionweb.net/understanding-disaster-risk
Feds officially turn on funding tap for $34 billion ‘Ike Dike’ project https://www.chron.com/gulf-coast/article/texas-coast-ike-dike-funding-19467984.php
Should London become a ‘sponge city’? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51ngn55gz4o
Evolving multi-hazard paradigms in a nutshell https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/nh/2024/05/20/evolving-multi-hazard-paradigms-in-a-nutshell/
Urban flood drifters (UFD): Identification, classification and characterisation https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfr3.13002
Weaker Codes Means New Homes Will Be Less Safe in North Carolina https://www.nrdc.org/bio/rob-moore/weaker-codes-means-new-homes-will-be-less-safe-north-carolina
Naples sits on volcanic monsters – and one of them threatens to consume the city https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240321-the-risk-of-volcano-eruption-in-naples-vesuvius-campi-flegrei
Emergency Management
CMCC facilitates a Wildfire Peer Review in Italy within the Union Civil Protection Mechanism https://www.cmcc.it/article/cmcc-facilitates-a-wildfire-peer-review-in-italy-within-the-union-civil-protection-mechanism
Satellite imagery to help aerial firefighters find usable watersources https://www.ga.gov.au/news/satellite-imagery-to-help-aerial-firefighters-find-usable-watersources
The Post-Yolanda Relocation and Climate Emergency: The Case of Tacloban North https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-7804-5_10
Here’s Yet Another Reason to Stay on Top of Your COVID Vaccine Boosters https://www.sciencealert.com/heres-yet-another-reason-to-stay-on-top-of-your-covid-vaccine-boosters
More aircraft to respond to fires, floods and other severe weather events https://nema.gov.au/about-us/media-centre/more-aircraft-to-keep-australians-safer-from-disasters
Disaster Education, Communication and Engagement
INSPIRE: Behavioural Insights for Better Communication https://www.behaviourworksaustralia.org/courses/inspire-your-communication
How would you prepare for an emergency? https://prepare.campaign.gov.uk/
Disaster psychology
A comparative assessment of household power failure coping strategies in three American cities https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629624001646
‘The fear has properly set in’: how it feels to watch my home town disappear into the sea https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/21/the-fear-has-properly-set-in-how-it-feels-to-watch-my-home-town-disappear-into-the-sea
Sociology and disasters
Researching Gender and Disasters of Natural Origin: Ethical Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/3/70
The impact of social capital to improve rural households’ resilience against flooding: evidence from Iran https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/water/articles/10.3389/frwa.2024.1393226/full
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