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This report highlights the collaborative action already happening between cities, states, regions, business, and national government, using data reported by over 1000 cities, states and regions.
Scaling Up Flood Risk Management in Brazil to Build Community-Level Resilience : Identifying Disaster Risk and Building Capacity to Inform Urban Resilience Strategies at Both the National and Local Levels
Brazil with support from the World Bank, undertook a study which revealed the country is losing an estimated US175 million dollars from over 30,000 disaster events.
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The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19 is aimed at those who plan and implement recovery from COVID-19, including government emergency planners and resilience officers. This week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 41) examines Financial Technology (FinTech) and Digital Government as policy delivery tools during COVID-19 and how these tools may be used in recovery and renewal. 
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This climate risk profile is intended to serve as a public good to facilitate upstream country diagnostics, policy dialogue, and strategic planning by providing comprehensive overviews of trends and projected changes in key climate parameters, sector

This contribution to the GAR Special Report on Drought 2021 is a case study on the Northeast of Brazil. It focusses on drought impacts and policy responses. Drought has major socio-economic and environmental impacts, especially in the semiarid lands.

Before the mid 1990s, a few organizations in International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) member countries started to practice risk analysis in the context of dam safety programs. Since that time, several methods and frameworks have been introduced into

O presente relatório visa apresentar os procedimentos utilizados para a realização do processo de autoavaliação da resiliência a desastres de Juiz de Fora. Os procedimentos foram realizados no contexto em que o mundo vivencia uma Pandemia e com

This report aims to better inform the Local Government of Teresina, of the current state of the city with regards to resilience and ongoing related trends, based on conclusions derived from the CRPT implementation process described in this document.

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