Floods and E-Resilience
A flood is the rising and overflowing of a body of water especially onto normally dry land. Floods can have severe consequences for people and critical ICT infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific. The E-Resilience Toolkit offers insights into a spectrum of available ICT tools and best practices that may benefit policymakers, DRM professionals and vulnerable communities in the Asia-Pacific region to enhance e-resilience and disaster risk management in the context of flood hazard.
Displaying 22 - 28 of 55 tools and best practices relevant to flood hazard.
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Open Data for Resilience Initiative is designed to reduce vulnerability to natural hazard through data collection and data analysis.
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GEOSS is a set of coordinated, independent Earth observation, information and processing systems that interact and offer information to various sectors.
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Help Kids Cope is a smartphone application designed to assist parents in talking to their children about disasters.
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GFDRR provides an overview of PDNAs, labeled by country, year and disaster type on its website to assist in recovery and reconstruction planning.
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ThinkHazard! is a new web-based tool enabling non-specialists to consider the impacts of disasters on new development projects.
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GAR is a biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction and comprehensive review and analysis of the natural hazards that are affecting humanity.
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The ETC is a global network of organizations that work together to provide shared communications services in humanitarian emergencies.