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Today (22nd February 2012) London’s emergency services and partners are taking part in an exercise to test responses to an incident on the underground system. The exercise is using the disused Aldwych tube station and is a key part of the testing of the readiness for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games. More details.
Last year's devastating floods across South-East Asia were a ‘wake-up call’ on the need for much greater investment in disaster risk reduction across the region, a United Nations forum heard recently. Delegates from nine countries attending the one-day forum, held in Bangkok and co-organized by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), called for much greater investment in disaster risk reduction in the future to protect economic growth. The forum was held to discuss lessons learned from last year's floods and to devise ways to make the region's countries more resilient to future disasters.
UNISDR is warning of the potential for severe flooding in parts of Europe in the next few days as a sudden influx of mild weather results in a rapid thaw of deep snow. Concerns are particularly high for Romania where there are few dikes or dams to hold back the Danube and where snowfall has been particularly severe.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have produced computer visualizations of rising sea levels in a low-lying coastal municipality, illustrating ways to adapt to climate change impacts such as flooding and storms surges. The researchers are working with a municipality south of Vancouver, Canada, that is surrounded by water on three sides and is expecting the sea-level to rise by 1.2 metres by 2100. Considerable infrastructure has been built below current and projected high water levels, and could be inundated in the event of a dike breach. The images produced show how different adaptation strategies that could be implemented in the municipality and are being used to help make decisions about how to best prepare for the future. More details.
FEMA daily SITREP
•Date: 22nd February 2012 • Region: Various
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