The Workshop on Governance Capacity and Natural Disasters: Enhancing Preparedness, Response and Rebuilding will be organized by East-West Center in partnership with the University of Hawaii at Mānoa and United Nations University to be held from 26 – 28

Session topics include: Effective public outreach and community involvement strategies Creating tribal climate change adaptation plans Natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) overview Forest health in a changing climate Climate change: Challenges and

Uttarakhand, one of the hill states of Northern India, was severely hit by heavy rain induced flash floods and landslides in the 3rd week of June, 2013. This abnormally high amount of rainfall has been attributed to the fusion of Westerlies with the

Objective The main objective of this 5 day training is to allow disaster management communities with easy, quick and accurate access to flood-related information and dissemination through the support of space agencies, disaster charter and research

The 2011 flood events severely affected Thailand, especially in the Chao Phraya River Basin. With growing population and infrastructures the exposure to natural hazards is inevitably increasing. A major flood event, like that in 2011, has a tendency to

El lanzamiento oficial del Proyecto: Apoyo a las familias damnificadas en 11 municipios del Valle del Cauca y el Municipio de Puerto Leguízamo en Putumayo afectadas por el fenómeno de la niña 2010 - 2011. Esta iniciativa es financiada por el Gobierno

Course Overview The fundamental principle of community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) involves the development and support of bottom up processes arising from the communities in recognition of their own needs and aspirations for community safety