Century Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century provides forward-looking operational assistance to policy makers and technical specialists in the rapidly expanding cities and towns of the developing world on how best to manage the risk of floods. It takes a strategic approach, in which appropriate risk management measures are assessed, selected and integrated in a process that both informs and involves the full range of stakeholders.

302 human impact disasters claimed 29,782 lives; affected 206 million and inflicted record economic damages of $366 billion in 2011

Geneva, 18 January 2012 – For two consecutive years the long-term disasters trend has been bucked by major earthquakes which claimed thousands of lives and affected millions in both 2010 and 2011, according to new statistics published today by CRED and the UN office for disaster risk reduction, UNISDR.

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This report covers the period 01 January 2010 to 31 December 2010.

In brief

Programme purpose: Support five National Societies in the Southern Cone and Brazil to effectively operationalize Strategy 2020 and the Inter American Plan 2007–2011.

HIGHLIGHTS:

 COLOMBIA: At least 29,100 people have been affected by the 2011 rainy season.

 BRAZIL: 31,000 people affected by rains. Various cities in the south of Brazil are under a state of emergency.

 PERU: 6,500 houses affected by rains in the city of Iquitos. Authorities are re-locating families to shelters.

 CUBA: Forest fires are growing, more than 6,000 hectares have burnt.

SAO PAULO, April 23 (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed in southern Brazil by landslides and other accidents caused by heavy rains, emergency workers said on Saturday.

Eight were killed in landslides that engulfed homes in the towns of Igrejinha and Novo Harmburgo in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, including three children who were asleep when a tide of mud hit their home.

Read the full article on AlertNet.

Destacados:
- Bolivia: Aumenta a 24,000 el número de familas afectadas por lluvias y deslizamientos
- Brasil: Unas 24,000 personas afectadas por inundaciones en Santa Catarina, Espirito Santo, Maranhao y Mato Grosso do Sul
- Argentina: Unas 8,000 personas afectadas por lluvias en Santiago del Estero
- Perú: 2,000 familias en riesgo en Arequipa debido a las lluvias y granizadas

BANGKOK, 17 mars 2011 (IRIN) - Les tsunamis, les tremblements de terre et les conflits laissent dans leur sillage chaos et imprévisibilité. Il n'est pas rare que des enfants soient séparés de leurs parents à cause d'une évacuation hâtive, d'une hospitalisation d'urgence ou d'un décès soudain et que l'un ou l'autre soit contraint d'attendre anxieusement des nouvelles. Dans de telles situations, les programmes de recherches sont indispensables à la réunification des familles.

Le triple désastre qui a frappé le Japon le 11 mars dernier (un tremblement de terre de magnitude 9.0 suivi d'un