Algeria

An area of rapidly developing initiatives is the EU’s Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection, officially adopted by the Commission on September 22nd 2006 [http://ec.europa.eu/environment/soil/]. The strategy makes a clear statement of the need for policy

There is sound evidence that natural disasters can trigger technological disasters (a dynamic also called domino effect), and that these concomitant events (also known as natechs) may pose tremendous risks to countries and communities that are unprepared

This report was prepared jointly by the Major Accident Hazards Bureau (MAHB) and the office of the Natural and Environmental Disaster Information Exchange System (NEDIES) which are part of the Technological and Economic Risk Management Unit of the

Journal: Climate Policy no. 5 

This special issue of the climate policy journal addresses the following key questions:
* What long-term range of policies for climate change adaptation and mitigation should Europe pursue to adequately enhance

Many disasters in Africa take place in urban areas, affecting millions of people each year. There is therefore an increasing need to understand how the risks from potential disasters develop in urban contexts, and to identify how locally owned processes

Fluvial floods are a common natural hazard in Europe. Only in the 90ies, large floods have affected the Meuse and Rhine, the Oder and the Po rivers. Following the devastating floods in the Elbe and Danube river basins in 2002, the European Commission

The increasingly variable climate in Europe has seen rising numbers of extreme flood events in the last decades, in the Danube, Odra and Elbe river basins just to name a few. The floods most perceived by the public are the large-scale riverine floods

Forest fires are one of the most devastating forces of nature. It has claimed lives,damaged property and infrastructure and destroyed hectares and hectares of forest land,which provide economical and recreational resources to society. Forests are also the