With flooding in the Phlippines from Typhoon Parma and another system, Typhoon Marla, bearing down on East and Southeast Asia, severe weather events are again in the news, making this week’s focus at the ISN on natural disasters all the more pertinent.
And even though one can’t say if these are the direct result of climate change, many wonder if staving off the effects, such as hurricanes, is possible through man-made means: geoengineering. Dr Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Department of Global Ecology at Stanford tells us in the latest edition of ISN Podcasts that human intervention should be the last resort.
- We’re also featuring this week the International Handbook on Risk Analysis and Management from the CSS in our Digital Library.
- Also in the Library: The Effectiveness of Foreign Military Assets in Natural Disaster Response.
- In the Links Library, make sure to check out EM-DAT: Emergency Events Database from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
And as always, keeping checking back during the week for updated features.