The supervision of floods and natural disasters.

Flood Victims apos Programme house repair subprogramme

Furthermore, traditional telecommunications systems were often severely affected by disasters such as earthquakes, floods or hurricanes.

The 719 heavy rainfall caused heavy disaster to many cities of Hebei Province and resulted in the flood disaster of some regions in Hebei province. During the period, some people were dead and missing.

In the meantime, an operational monitoring and assessment system on major natural disasters has been set up which is able to carry out real time monitoring on an instant basis in case of major natural disasters of floods, contributing to disaster mitigation and relief and minimization of damages by providing relevant data on disasters.

Calls on the Member States to assist the Republic of Djibouti in its struggle against the disastrous consequences of the recent flood at both the social and economic levels.

China is also a disaster prone developing country. This year, floods alone have affected more than 200 million people and resulted in direct economic losses of 17 billion.

The cargo turnover growth rate in July fell back 3.6 percentage and floods on these areas have a certain impact on traffic.

Whereas natural disasters included floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides and certain types of widely spreading infectious diseases, human induced disasters included explosions, armed conflicts, motor and aircraft accidents, chemical spills etc.

And increasing intensity of droughts and floods will severely impact breadbaskets of the world, causing massive famines and economic decline.

Sheng Laiyun pointed out that there was a special case in July, with serious floods, high temperature and hot weather which have brought some impact on production and operation of some areas.

Not all natural hazards were disasters fires, floods, earthquakes and drought all existed as part of natural cycles.

Major disasters to which Nepal is vulnerable, in addition to earthquakes, include floods, drought, landslides, epidemics, glacial lake outburst floods, fire and ecological hazards.

Expressing its grave concern and sympathy over the human casualties caused by the worst natural disasters and their devastating impact on the socio economic situation in the Economic Cooperation Organization region, which is prone to disasters such as earthquakes, floods and drought,

Food aid assistance was provided to an additional 10 million people suffering the consequences of drought and floods in 1997.

Just a year later the Yangtze flooded, causing something like 5,500 deaths.

Once the relief operations had come to an end, several committed social workers decided to continue working in the area in order to rehabilitate local communities and mitigate the long term damage that the floods had caused.

A joint flood response management team, comprising representatives of the United Nations agencies, donors and non governmental organizations, was established to coordinate the response of the international community to the needs of the affected population in the flooded areas.

It is estimated that there is still a thundershower or shower in Miyun District from the late afternoon to night that day, and mountainous areas and shallow mountainous areas will be at high risks of small and medium sized river floods, mountain torrents, geological disaster and other secondary disasters arising from heavy rainfall.

The services are intended to respond to slow onset disasters such as famine and desertification, as well as to sudden emergencies such as tsunamis, earthquakes and floods.

The services were intended to respond to slow onset disasters such as famine and desertification, as well as to sudden emergencies such as tsunamis, earthquakes and floods.

Of course, earthquakes and all the natural phenomena floods, tornadoes, etc. take their toll.

The region will continue to experience shocks from natural hazards, such as floods, droughts and cyclones.

(b) Detecting and monitoring floods, using data supplied by satellites of the Meteor 3M, Resurs DK and Monitor E types.

(a) Disasters such as floods, earthquakes, forest fires, oil spills, drought and volcanic eruptions affect large parts of the globe and coordinated international efforts are required to minimize their impacts.

Earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, tsunamis and other natural disasters are beyond the capacity of any State to prevent.

The Democratic People s Republic of Korea, a recipient of food aid during the year, has structural agricultural problems compounded by both floods and drought.

Noting also that the Caribbean region is the second most hazard prone region in the world and is frequently exposed to devastating hazards including earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and volcanic eruptions,

That was despite the floods and other natural disasters that so frequently visit our country.

The 1981 floods ruined entire crop fields and caused permanent damage to many villages in the area.

Pre disaster uses included risk analysis and mapping disaster warning, such as cyclone tracking, drought monitoring, the extent of damage due to volcanic eruptions, oil spills, forest fires and the spread of desertification and disaster assessment, including flood monitoring and assessment, estimation of crop and forestry damages and monitoring of land use change in the aftermath of a disaster.

The bank secured the city from a flood.

. Although originally designed for ocean and ice applications, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images obtained by ERS 1 and ERS 2 had been tested, with varying degrees of success, in agriculture, forestry, hydrology, cartography and geology and in monitoring natural hazards such as floods and mud flows.

Although originally designed for ocean and ice applications, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images obtained by ERS 1 and ERS 2 have been tested, with varying degrees of success, in agriculture, forestry, hydrology, cartography and geology applications and for monitoring natural hazards such as floods and mud flows.

Recurring natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods and hurricanes pose a great challenge to the international community with respect to peace and sustainable development in the world.

Pre disaster uses include risk analysis and mapping disaster warning, such as cyclone tracking, drought monitoring, the extent of damage due to volcanic eruptions, oil spills, forest fires and the spread of desertification and disaster assessment, including flood monitoring and assessment, estimation of crop and forestry damages and monitoring of land use change in the aftermath of disasters.

Those districts, frequently affected by droughts and floods and covering 45 per cent of the geographical area of India, were currently being extensively surveyed from outer space through the use of satellite remote sensing systems.

Granted, rich countries have a certain advantage they benefit from generally moderate climates, with regular rainfall and relatively low risks of drought and flooding. Even so, they are not immune to water related disasters, as Hurricane Katrina s destruction of New Orleans taught us.

9. During the Conference it was noted that the goal of national development in many African countries was pursued principally by undertaking activities that (a) promoted improvements in agriculture, forestry and their related industries, mineral and water resources and human resources and (b) served to mitigate the effects of natural disasters (severe drought, flooding etc.).

Natural and environmental disasters

Training sessions on the use of Internet for disaster related activities are ongoing in Guatemala, Honduras and Panama.

Those districts, frequently affected by droughts and floods and covering 45 per cent of the geographical area of India, were being extensively surveyed from outer space through the use of satellite remote sensing systems.

Examples of existing adaptation technologies include air conditioning, flood defence systems, irrigation, monitoring, forecasting and early warning systems for natural hazards.

Global MapAid had been formed with the aim of supplying specialist maps to humanitarian decision makers, predominantly in slow onset disasters such as famine, but also when necessary in rapid onset disasters such as floods.

Monitoring of man made and natural disasters