66 datasets found

The purpose of this document is to enable the development review process in particular environmental impact assessments (EIA) - to better encourage and promote development...

This study presents the results from the second phase of the project Global Risk and Vulnerability Index Trend per Year (GRAVITY) developed by UNEP/GRID-Geneva for the...

Melting glaciers, denuded slopes, expanding deserts these images of environmental change have long captured public attention. With the threat of global climate change, the...

This paper describes some methodological aspects of the development of the Disaster Risk Index (DRI), a central component of the Reducing Disaster Risk report from the United...

On 26 December 2004, an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale caused powerful tsunamis that reached the Maldives around 9:30 in the morning. A United Nations Disaster...

The earthquake on January 12, 2010 has caused an unprecedented situation in Haiti with enormous repercussions affecting all sectors of society, well beyond the areas directly...

With growing infrastructures complexity, the world population is facing increasing environmental risks such as water, air and soil contamination due to organic, chemical or...

The purposes of the Disaster Risk Index was to identify whether global data sets could be used for identifying population living in exposed areas and demonstrate the link...

Among the different recommendations from the two previous GRAVITY reports, drought was the obvious significant missing hazard. In the first GRAVITY report (feasibility study)...

The scope of the present paper is to describe an exploratory analysis on the feasibility of a global flood hazard modeling, which would enable further studies on human...

This layer shows the trend of fires occurrence at province level (GADM version 3.6 level 1) from 2003 to present based on MODIS Collection 6 Active Fire Product MCD14ML. The...

This layer shows the trend of fires occurrence at country level (UN_0 UN Cartographic Section level 0) from 2003 to present based on MODIS Collection 6 Active Fire Product...

This dataset includes an estimate of the global risk induced by multiple hazards (tropical cyclone, flood and landslide induced by precipitations). Unit is estimated risk index...

The tropical cyclonic strong wind and storm surge hazard model uses information from 2594 historical tropical cyclones besides data on topography, terrain roughness, and...

This dataset includes an estimate of the global risk induced by landslide hazard triggered by precipitations. Unit is estimated risk index from 1 (low) to 5 (extreme). This...

This dataset includes an estimate of tsunami origins and runup for the period January 1970 - December 2017. First dataset contains tsunami origins. This product was designed by...

Real-time Feed, updated every 15 minutes. More information here [https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/geojson.php].

This dataset includes an estimate of tropical cyclone frequency of Saffir-Simpson category 5. It is based on two sources: 1) IBTrACS v02r01 (1969 - 2008,...

This dataset includes an estimation of the annual physical exposition to tropical cyclones of Saffir-Simpson category 5. It is based on three sources: 1) IBTrACS v02r01 (1969 -...

This dataset includes an estimate of the global risk induced by tropical cyclone hazard. Unit is estimated risk index from 1 (low) to 5 (extreme). This product was designed by...