EXPERIENCES, VIEWS AND PRACTICAL IDEAS FLOW AT THE ANNUAL UCR-COP PLANNING MEETING
By: Stephanie Lyons and Thanh Ngo, ISET-Vietnam It was excellent to see more than 50 UCR-CoP participants get together at our annual...
BOULDER FLOODS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (PART 1)
Between September 11 and 15, 2013, Boulder received over 15 inches of rainfall (Daily Camera, 2013 Floods) resulting in severe flooding...
Sharpening Our Focus on Urban Disaster Risk Reduction
By Stephanie Lyons and Tho Nguyen, ISET-Vietnam Efforts in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Vietnam to date have primarily focused on...
LEARNING FROM COMMUNITY-BASED MANAGEMENT MODELS UNDER THE NORTH VAM NAO WATER CONTROL PROJECT
Published March 3, 2014 On January 11, 2014, the Climate Change Coordination Office (CCCO) in Can Tho traveled to An Giang to learn about...
INTERVIEW WITH THE RESILIENT HOUSING DESIGN COMPETITION 2013 WINNERS (INDIA)
by: Michelle Fox, Director of Art + Communications Shifting our approach Shelter accounts for the highest amount of monetary losses in...
ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT PATHWAYS: EXAMINING THE DA NANG MASTER PLAN
By Thanh Ngo and Stephanie Lyons; ISET-International, Vietnam What will happen if a city’s master plan doesn’t address flood risks in the...
THE ECONOMICS OF STORM RESISTANT SHELTERS
Michelle Fox, Director of Art + Communications, ISET-International Phong Tran, Ph.D, Technical Lead, ISET-International, Vietnam In...
VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE: BOULDER FLOODS OF 2013
By Chris Allan and Karen MacClune “By 6 AM on Thursday morning, there was a huge river of water flowing through main street, where the...
LESSONS LEARNED FROM TYPHOON NARI (KÈM BẢN DỊCH TIẾNG VIỆT)
41 million USD-that’s the estimated total damage of Da Nang City, Vietnam after Typhoon Nari swept through Vietnam in the morning of...
MEKONG: WATER AND CITIES
This photo essay was submitted by Richard Friend, Senior Staff Scientist of ISET-International. In the Mekong Sub-Region, the...
