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This report aims to improve understanding of how flexibility can be introduced into the fisheries management cycle in order to foster adaptation to climate change. This work contributes to the overall scope of improving the resilience of fisheries

This study explores how the two leading approaches in water resources management and ecosystem thinking for climate change adaptation – i.e. Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) – can be merged to achieve

This study highlights what is understood by participation according to different actors and various international contexts. Participation is an often-demanded process in disaster risk reduction (DRR). However, it is often unclear who understands what

La Política Nacional de Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres al 2050 es de aplicación inmediata por todas las entidadesde la administración pública señaladas en el artículo I del Título Preliminar del Texto Único Ordenado de la Ley Nº 27444,Ley del

El presente documento, Procedimientos de Gestión Laboral (PGL), ha sido elaborado en el marco del Proyectode inversión pública “Mejoramiento y Ampliación de los Servicios brindados por el Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia en Salud Pública,de alcance nacional

Peru is one of the most hazard-prone countries in the world. It is affected by hydrological hazards including riverine and coastal flooding, as well as landslides and huaycos – a Quechua word locally used for mudslides and flash floods caused by heavy

This report contributes to the wealth of information and conversations around mountains by highlighting CARE programs that address the social and environmental threats to highland ecosystems, underscoring the disproportionate impacts of these threats on

This study assesses the dollar benefit of a neighborhood approach intervention on disaster risk reduction in small-sized, densely populated, and hazard-prone informal settlements across Latin American and Caribbean countries. The authors use a life

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