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Workshop highlights importance of impact-based disaster forecasting

Impact-based forecasting and warning information plays a very important role, contributing to disaster damage reduction and socio-economic development, experts said at an international workshop in the northern province of Hoa Binh on March 22.
Workshop highlights importance of impact-based disaster forecasting ảnh 1Delegates to the workshop (Photo: VNA) 
Hoa Binh (VNA) – Impact-based forecasting and warning information playsa very important role, contributing to disaster damage reduction andsocio-economic development, experts said at an international workshop in thenorthern province of Hoa Binh on March 22.

Deputy head of the Vietnam Meteorological and HydrologicalAdministration (VNMHA) Hoang Duc Cuong said that the workshop, jointly held bythe VNMHA and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC) in response to the WorldMeteorological Day (March 23), will provide international experiences onforecasting and warning based on practical impacts in the world and Vietnam,contributing to forming processes and measures to effectively forecast disasterimpacts in Vietnam at present and in future.

At the workshop, the ADPC guided participants on how to buildan impact matrix of storms and floods. Participants also discussed the role ofdisaster forecasting and warning, and emphasised the importance of informationon impact-based forecasting in easing damage caused by natural disasters.

Senaka Basnayake, Director for the ADPC’s Climate Resilience Department, saidthat in order to increase urban resilience to climate extremes, it is necessaryto understand current and future risks, build capacity for emergencypreparedness, response, and management, and learn about sustainable riskmanagement for the future.

Senaka said that the “Urban Resilience to Climate Extremes in Southeast Asia”(URCE) project is being implemented by the centre in Vietnam’s My Tho city inthe Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang and Nam Dinh city in the northerncoastal province of the same name from November 2018 to December 2023.

It aims to improve the multi-hazard early warning system, knowledgeon risks caused by climate extremes (storms, floods, water level rise caused bystorms); better forecasts on disasters; and strengthen the effectiveness of preparedness and response measures by people and authorities in urban areas toclimate extremes and emergency situations./.
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