admin November 11th, 2009
We’ve written here before about the role that planning, data analysis and prediction can play in reducing the impact of natural disasters.
The EM-DAT database (a WHO initiative) is a huge repository of information about disasters that has been built up over more than 40 years, and Advance Aid has already been mining this data to help develop its business plan – if you can use historical data to predict where disasters are most likely to happen, you can certainly fine-tune your pre-positioning and warehousing strategy.
Now SciDevNet has produced a whole section of its website devoted to covering “Remote Sensing for Natural Disasters” .
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Tags: Algeria, Brazil, China, EM-DAT, India, Nigeria, Thailand, Vietnam, WHO
admin November 6th, 2009
The United Nations is warning that up to 750,000 people in Kenya, nearly half of them Somali refugees, could be caught up in flooding and landslides from heavy rains expected to peak in November.
The people most at risk are the 300,000 mainly Somali refugees in the Kakuma and Dadaab camps. Kakuma is in northwestern Kenya and Dadaab in the east on the border with Somalia. The overcrowded Dadaab complex of three camps was built to hold some 90,000 people but its population has swollen to three times that, in the process becoming home to more refugees than any other site in the world, according to the UNHCR.
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Tags: cholera, Floods, Kenya, Somalia, UNHCR, WHO
