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This review provides an inventory of country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s National Adaptation Programs of Action and National Communications

This document presents a review of current and planned adaptation action in North Africa, covering the countries of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia. As adaptation action in West Asia is not being examined within the review, the only

This policy brief, issued while Governments discuss how to adapt to climate change in Durban, reflects that African countries are committed and investing funds to reduce risk to floods and droughts, albeit too little and still insufficiently in

This paper presents the reports made on the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas by the chairman, IOC secretariat, working groups and tasks teams, and other intergovernmental

This book addresses water policy and law and other aspects of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), including measures undertaken to satisfy demand for water in an environment exposed to risks of impact of unpredictable natural occurrences, such

L’objet du Règlement de Construction Parasismique (RPS2000) est de:

a) Définir l’action sismique sur les bâtiments ordinaires au cours des tremblements de terre.
b) Présenter un recueil d’exigences minimales de conception et de calcul ainsi que des

In French:

La présente étude, dirigée et financée par la Banque Mondiale, concerne l'adaptation au changement climatique et aux désastres naturels de l'aire urbaine du Grand Tunis. Elle s'inscrit dans un cadre plus large d’évaluation de la vulnérabilité

Summary of the regional study - June 2011:

This study is aimed to help better understand both the risks that North Africa’s coastal cities face by the 2030 time horizon, and to help prepare the required adaptive responses. Alexandria, Casablanca and

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