A 2019 Regional Hurricane Risk Analysis financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and undertaken by the firm Ingeniería Técnica y Científica S.A.S de Colombia found that Caribbean island states are indicatively at risk of suffering probable maximum losses of US$56 billion dollars for a probable 100-year cyclone. Typically, Caribbean disaster managers simulate and … [Read more...] about How to Strengthen Hurricane-Response and Recovery in a Global Pandemic
Hori Tsuneki
Tsuneki Hori, Disaster Risk Management Specialist, the Inter-American Development Bank. Hori is a Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Specialist in the Environment, Rural Development and Risk Management Division of the IDB. His work includes sector dialogue facilitation with national stakeholders, technical document preparation, loan and technical cooperation design, and portfolio management related to disaster risk management. He has published several books and international journals in the field of DRM, including his latest book “Local Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Climate: A Perspective from Central America” published by the Emerald Publishing of the United Kingdom. He holds a PhD in International Environmental & Disaster Management from the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.
Measuring vulnerabilities to hazardous events
The increase in recent years of intensive hazardous events in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), such as the devastating Hurricanes in 2017 (Harvey, Irma, Maria, Nate, and others), the intensive earthquake in Ecuador in April 2016, the Argentina Floods in 2013 and many other events, have caused many fatalities, injuries, disruptions of infrastructure and people’s … [Read more...] about Measuring vulnerabilities to hazardous events
Natural? Disasters
This past February Argentina suffered one of its worst catastrophes of the last 50 years, resulting in more than 4,000 affected households, around a dozen fatalities, close to 5,000 evacuees and a financial loss close to 200 million U.S. dollars. These numbers are merely an estimate of the damage caused by the storm, which shook the province of Cordoba earlier this year. This … [Read more...] about Natural? Disasters