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Disaster Resilience in Asia—A Special Supplement 0f Asia’s Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology Over 50 Years

1 July 2021
This presentation gives an overview of the special supplement publication on "Asia's Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology Over 50 Years".

Building Resilience of the Power System in the Low-Carbon Transition

28 April 2021
This presentation discussed how building power sector resilience aligns with ADB’s energy policy, which is currently being updated, as well as ADB’s Strategy 2030’s operational priority 3—tackling climate change, building climate and disaster resilience, and enhancing environmental sustainability.

Lao PDR Vulnerability Assessment and Resilience Strategy

28 April 2021
This presentation discussed the importance of stakeholder engagement in undertaking vulnerability assessment and resilience strategies based on a case study from Lao PDR. T

Practice of China Southern Power Grid to adapt natural hazards

28 April 2021
This presentation discussed the measures taken by China Southern Power Grid to adapt to natural hazards, specifically to minimize impacts from typhoon and ice events which commonly affect the system.

Energy Resilience and Climate Adaptation in Belize

28 April 2021
This presentation shared the results of a study on power systems in Belize which identifies climate vulnerabilities and solutions to enhance systems resilience to adverse weather and climate change impacts.

Dialogues on Resilient Infrastructure Drought Resilience: Irrigation, water harvesting, drainage

24 March 2021
This presentation discussed protective irrigation, water harvesting and watershed management, and efficient drainage for salinity control to enhance drought resilience. Jelle highlighted the importance of ensuring that drought resilience solutions are closely aligned with national development…

Urban Flood Forecast Early Warning System

19 March 2021
Numerous studies rank Kolkata among the top ten most vulnerable cities in the world due to high exposure to flooding under climate change projections. Kolkata City faces most of its floods from local rains. High spatial inhomogeneity in rainfall distribution makes urban flood forecasting a…

Flood Early Warning in Asia, Exploring New Solutions

15 March 2021
Delft Flood Early Warning System (Delft-FEWS) is freely available expert software that handles large amounts of forecast data efficiently, integrates the latest observations with the most recent meteorological forecasts, and provides for consistent data quality, standardized work processes, and…

HKV Digital Water

15 March 2021
HKV's services are based on in-depth knowledge of hydrology, hydraulics, morphology, mathematics, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and information technology.

Infrastructure for Urban Resilience: Integrating Gray and Nature-based Solutions

25 February 2021
Kerrie Burge discussed the role that nature-based solutions (NbS) play in making urban infrastructure not only resilient but also inclusive and sustainable.