E-Resilience: Know Your Risk
It is essential that vulnerable communities and policymakers in the Asia-Pacific region are aware of the disaster risks, as this usually leads to the pursuit of preparedness and mitigation efforts, and can significantly affect ways critical ICT infrastructure is built, maintained and protected. 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 Asia and the Pacific to enhance e-resilience and disaster risk management in the context of risk awareness.
Displaying 22 - 28 of 49 tools and best practices relevant to knowing your risk.
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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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Alerts and information on tsunamis, tropical cyclones and extreme weather events is offered by VMGD in Vanuatu.
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GeoNet Quake is a smartphone application that provides information and alerts with regard to earthquake hazard in New Zealand.
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New Zealand uses seismic sensors able to characterise potential tsunami-generating earthquakes occurring off the country's coast.
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EWX software is an interactive web-based mapping tool to visualize rainfall estimates and land surface temperatures at various time series.
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This network monitors seismic activity and, depending on the location of the earthquake, provides early warnings.