26 Nov 2014
Ten-minute clip of Japan’s earthquake early warning system. Both Japan and Mexico have earthquake early warning systems that lets people know of an earthquake 5-50 seconds in advance.
Tags: Video, Early Warning Systems, Earthquake
01 Oct 2013
This toolkit was developed by the World Bank to provide its staff and client Governments with the concepts empirical evidence, noteworthy case studies of different approaches and the operational elements necessary to develop more comprehensive pover...
Tags: Report
16 Jul 2014
This publication addresses the need to focus more on mitigating risks and preparing for floods, rather than simply dealing with the consequences after a flood occurs, in order to reduce flood losses and help communities in both developed and developi...
Tags: Report, Community Risk Assessment, Flood, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management