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The purpose of this paper is to share the implemented strategy, activities and the process of cooperation between the educational community in the municipality of Amadora (Portugal), the Civil Protection Local Authority and the local campaign “Resilient

This report discusses cities’ resilience from economic, social, environmental and institutional perspectives. Ten case studies, including Antalya (Turkey), Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Bursa (Turkey), Cardiff (United Kingdom), Kobe (Japan), Kyoto (Japan)

This publication provides a summary of the outcomes of the European Commission-supported U-SCORE project. The U-SCORE project was launched in 2015 in order to pilot the UNISDR Disaster Resilience Scorecard tool in Europe and provide valuable feedback so

The main goal of the ENHANCE project  ('Enhancing risk management partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters in Europe')  is to develop and analyse innovative ways to manage natural hazard risks and the key for that is to develop new multi-sectoral

Seismological Research Letters Volume 87, Number 3 May/June 2016, doi:10.1785/0220150239:

This article describes an adapted education and outreach program for earthquake science and risk. The program is tailored for a region of slow tectonic deformation

This report presents for each of the municipalities participating in the "Making Cities Resilient: My City is getting ready" campaign: the main risks, major past events, examples of good practices implemented and results achieved, in order to disseminate

The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the 2013-15 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and the ISDR partnership.

Contributing to the global dialogue on disaster risk reduction (DRR), the purpose of this paper is to address a key priority for the Post-2015 Framework for DRR (HFA2) by analyzing initiatives used by one local government to increase local-level

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