Japan:
80% of SDF big choppers couldn’t fly for Kumamoto mainly because they were undergoing emergency checks
Gov't to call for beefing up support for foreign visitors in disaster (Japan) Tourism organizations should get the picture of the locations of evacuation centers as well as hospitals that can accept foreigners, according to the planned request. The guidelines state examples of foreign language terms regarding evacuation and advice, and urge making use of volunteer interpreters and preparation of emergency meals that can be provided to Muslims.
USA:
River shaping from floods happens 'in moderation' (USA) River channel sculpting does increase as flood size increases, but this effect is most pronounced for moderate floods; river channels actually adjust to the conditions of major floods so that larger floods have very limited additional impact on channel geometry.
Beginning in less than a month on June 7th and lasting until June 10th, FEMA and Cascadia Rising 2016 are preparing for a devastating earthquake followed by a tsunami on the Northwest Coast of America that has scientists and other experts asking not IF it will come, but WHEN it will come.
FEMA is also now preparing for 10,000 deaths along the Northwest Coast of America in the region of the Cascadia Subduction Zone due to the quake and the resulting tsunami. Just days ago we learned from scientists that Mount St Helens volcano is 'recharging' 36 years after the most deadly volcanic blast in 'modern' US history. We're told that the volcano's replenished magma stores have been responsible for setting of a series of earthquakes, more than 130 small magnitude quakes since March with steadily increasing frequency.
Netherlands:
Living with water is living with risk (Dutch) Risk is a number for professionals, a calculation for investors, but for civilians it’s an emotion.
Much water damage due to heavy rain in the Netherlands (Dutch)
Much water damage due to heavy rain in the Netherlands (Dutch)
Other:
“No Sustainable Development Goals unless action is taken to reduce the deficit in natural infrastructure” NGO Wetlands International states that better management and restoration of wetlands is an essential strategy to meet at least seven out of the seventeen Development Goals that were adopted in September 2015. The SDGs, Paris agreement, and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, which all concluded last year, are potentially triggers for increased investment in improving the status and condition of wetlands, which are the fastest declining ecosystems in the world. Since 1900 the world has lost 64% of its wetlands through drainage and conversion and much of those that remain are under growing pressure by economic and infrastructure development that has failed to value their role.
Floods, coastal erosion may expose contents of UK landfills, study finds (UK) There are 1264 historic coastal landfill sites in England and Wales, all of which are sealed and no longer receive waste, but fall wholly or partially within the Environment Agency’s Tidal Flood Zone 3. One historic landfill site might contain a huge amount of plastics, and another might be full of coal ash. Many of them were in use when there were no rules about what went in. This is important because it means that we can't draw national conclusions from individual sites -- every landfill is essentially unique and some will prove more risky than others.
Building Resilience to Climate Change Requires Investment in Nature Within the resilience and adaptation community, investment in the protection and restoration of nature is perhaps the most important sector that remains underemphasized and inadequately studied. Globally, ecosystems have been estimated to provide economic benefits on the order of $124.8 trillion in 2007 dollars per year to human society. This estimate includes both extractable natural resources—such as fish and timber—and ongoing services that sustain human life—such as water filtration, photosynthesis for oxygen production, and pollination and soil productivity for food production. Coastal forests, wetlands, coral reefs, and other ecosystems also provide flood and storm protection for human communities.
As climate adaptation and resilience policies are drawn up and implemented in the Paris era, it is essential that donors, climate fund managers, and funding recipients prioritize investments in the resilience of global ecosystems—not just infrastructure.
In its comprehensive assessment on the state of global adaptation finance relative to projected needs, the U.N. Environment Programme, or UNEP, highlighted that ecosystem services represent the least well-characterized sector for understanding the appropriate scale of adaptation investment. Despite ecosystems’ immense economic value, the report observed that “estimates of the potential impact of climate change and the cost of adaptation are almost completely missing for biodiversity and ecosystem services; they are therefore not included in the [current] global estimates [for adaptation funding needs].” “The limited studies that do exist indicate sector costs could be much larger than estimates for quantified sectors.”
REDD+, the international framework for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation plus sustainable forest management, represents one of the most advanced systems for monetization and trade of an important ecosystem service.
In cities, flooding and rainfall extremes to rise as climate changes Cities face harsher, more concentrated rainfall as climate change not only intensifies storms, but draws them into narrower bands of more intense downpours, UNSW engineers have found. This has major implications for existing stormwater infrastructure, particularly in large cities, which face higher risks of flash flooding.
Drowning WHO Drowning is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide, accounting for 7% of all injury-related deaths.
There are an estimated 372 000 annual drowning deaths worldwide.
Males are especially at risk of drowning, with twice the overall mortality rate of females.
Drowning accounts for 75% of deaths in flood disasters.
- Children, males and individuals with increased access to water are most at risk of drowning.
- Drowning is one of the top 5 causes of death for people aged 1-14 years for 48 of 85 countries with data meeting inclusion criteria.
- Australia: drowning is the leading cause of unintentional injury death in children aged 1-3 years.
- Bangladesh: drowning accounts for 43% of all deaths in children aged 1-4 years.
- China: drowning is the leading cause of injury death in children aged 1-14 years.
- United States: drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury death in children aged 1-14 years.
Sudden shifts in the course of a river on a delta may be predicted, thanks to new study The researchers also think their results could be used to understand how river delta systems are built on other planets that once had water such as Mars. This could help scientists learn more about past oceans and seas on other planets.
Vulnerable people:
Fewer Japanese seek equal child care role sharing than Europeans Only 33.2 pct of people in Japan believe that men and women should share an equal burden in child rearing, lower than the proportions in three European countries, a Japanese government report showed Tuesday.The figure stood at 93.9 pct in Sweden, 64.6 pct in Britain and 50.6 pct in France. The results are based on a survey conducted in October-December 2015 by means of individual interviews on a total of around 3,000 men and women aged 20-49 in the four countries.
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