Namibia

Volume 75:

This issue includes 7 papers on local disaster risks and vulnerability, focusing on the role played by the community, and providing examples from Latin America, including articles on Colombia and Mexico, in addition to Turkey and Namibia.

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This journal is a trans-disciplinary publication in the field of disaster risk reduction, aimed at serving as a platform for discussion and debate in this relatively new study field. The journal publishes research papers, opinion pieces, practitioner

Aligning with the priorities outlined in the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters, this plan responds to the need to develop a longer-term strategic approach that helps articulate funding

This document presents a review of current and planned adaptation action in southern Africa. For the purpose of this review, this region is designated as including the countries of Botswana, Comoros, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique

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 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

The primary responsibility for disaster risk management in Namibia rests with the government. The first Principle of State Policy, Article 95 of the Constitution of the Republic of Namibia, requires the state to actively promote the welfare of its people.

This publication contains abstracts (mainly in English, some in French) from papers presented at the fourth International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change which was held on 21-27 February 2010 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The