“Making our Coastal Areas Safer” – International 3 Day Conference
Making our Coastal Areas Safer – an International Conference will present a set of tools to help reduce risk and increase resilience in the face of storms at our coasts.…
Flood Protection
Flood risk, warning and protection
USA – After Katrina, Flood-Prone New Orleans Learns to Live With Water
New Orleans is working to introduce green infrastructure, which can manage stormwater better, and create jobs into the bargain, says its resilience chief, reports Megan Rowling for Thomson Reuters Foundation.…
Improved El Niño Flood Hazard Warnings Could Save Lives
Misleading El Niño flood information could be putting lives at risk and resulting in misdirected disaster relief, new research suggests. The new study, published on Wednesday 15 March in Nature…
Faced With Rising Seas, French Polynesia Ponders Floating Islands
Could small islands threatened by sea level rise find a new future afloat? By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK, March 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When former Google software engineer Patri…
Mexico Meeting to Bring World Together on Disaster Prevention
We have got much better at managing disasters but are less focused on reducing risk, write Robert Glasser, head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and Luis…
UK – BRE Group Launches Flood Resilient Home, Hopes to Reduce Insurance Premiums
With Storms Desmond, Eva and Frank that battered parts of Britain between early December 2015 and early January 2016 causing damage that estimated to cost insurers £1.3 billion (US$1.58bn) in…
Staying Safe From Disasters Pays, but Will Funders Listen?
Work is underway to show the economic benefits of investing to make cities and communities more resilient, by Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation NEW ORLEANS, March 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)…
From Floating Homes to Fish Ponds, $10 Million Award Backs Solutions to Floods
BANGKOK, March 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From building floating houses and flood-resilient roads to protecting coasts by restoring fish ponds, 12 projects aimed at tackling water-related problems in some…
Researchers Say Natural Measures to Prevent Floods Valuable but Not ‘A Silver Bullet’
Natural measures to manage flooding from rivers can play a valuable role in flood prevention, but a lack of monitoring means their true potential remains unclear, researchers say. Such measures,…
Disaster Response Goes Digital – But Not for All
Tech firms are helping information move faster in a crisis, but some vulnerable people are shut out, by Megan Rowling. NEW ORLEANS, March 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – What do…
UK – Finding A Place for Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) in Flood Protection
The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) recently published a report containing its findings on the barriers to the implementation of Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) in England, following…
India – Disaster Authority Exercise Tests Flood and Tsunami Response in Puducherry
The Indian National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in Puducherry recently carried out an exercise to assess the preparedness and response mechanism of the Union Territory administration in the event of…
Texas – Houston to Use Old Golf Course for Flood Mitigation
The City of Houston, Texas, is getting creative with flood control, with new plans to use an old golf course to store as much as 350 million gallons of storm…
UK – Scotland’s Biggest Flood Alleviation Scheme Opened in Elgin
The biggest flood alleviation scheme ever undertaken in Scotland was officially opened today. The £86million project – which took almost five years to complete – will protect around 1,130 residential…
How Europe’s Coastal Cities Can Cope With Rising Sea Levels
The average global sea level has risen by more than 20cm since 1980 – that’s a rate of 0.5mm per month – according to new research from the Basque Centre…
Smarter Spending Could Tackle Disasters in Uganda Before They Happen
Sending small amounts of aid before a predicted disaster could help cut what needs to be spent afterward, officials say. By Zoe Tabary ENTEBBE, Uganda, March 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)…
