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Civil Protection and Civil Defence are the central pillar against natural disasters, catastrophes and emergencies. Volunteers and professionals involved in the resiliency systems need the information to perform better in big emergencies.
RETTmobil exhibition 2016:"The show is a Hit"
Detailed information on the 16th RETTmobil 2016, May 11 - 13 in Fulda.
Disaster management reference handbook 2016 for Papua New Guinea
This handbook is intended to provide decision makers, planners, responders and disaster management practitioners with an overview of the disaster management structure, policies, laws, and plans for Papua New Guinea. It also provides basic…
ECHO, ERCC and the Union Civil Protection Mechanism
Emergency managers, responders, volunteers, in a few words “emergency management actors” are accustomed to follow different guidelines, to interact with other countries’ representatives, but less used to work with European civil protection…
The largest disaster training exercise ever realized in UK. The London Fire Brigade photogallery
The largest ever disaster training exercise in our 150 year history began on Monday, 29 February with firefighters, police officers and ambulance personnel from across London taking part in a four day scenario based upon a building…
Red Cross launches emergency appeal as extreme winter ‘Dzud’ threatens Mongolian herders
Beijing/Geneva. Today, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) launched an emergency appeal for 834,000 Swiss Francs (USD 835,000 / 768,000 Euros) to assist 25,500 vulnerable Mongolian herders who are at…
Disaster resilience in Philippines, looking forward for new solutions
“All of the houses in my village were destroyed in a snap,” says Analita Garcela, the captain of the upland village of Cambucao in Tabon Tabon, Leyte – one of the communities hardest hit by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013
Automotive welcome a new segment: Ambulances and Emergency Vehicles
Auto Expo 2016, the most important Automotive exhibition for the Indian market, celebrate a formal opening of a new model line: Emergency Vehichles. It will be a revolution in the EMS asiatic standards?
Disaster reduction in the Kyrgyz Republic: how to build a national platform
Strategic directions: strengthening national platforms for disaster reduction - with experience in Kyrgyz Republic
The strategic directions on strengthening National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction are intended for use by all…
Natural disasters and global temperatures: A bad prediction for the period from 2016-2020
The latest Met Office decadal forecast predicts global temperatures for the five-year period from 2016 to 2020. The forecast will be between 0.28 °C and 0.77 °C above the long-term (1981-2010) average. For comparison, 2015 - currently the …
Resilience: facing new, abnormal, climate risks
Climate risks around the world: extreme tornadoes that struck the United States over Christmas, freak snowfalls in Mexico and heavy flooding in South America and the United Kingdom, Ms Margareta Wahlström, head of the UN Office for Disaster…