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- About the Hyogo Framework for Action
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Oceania
Australia: Canterbury’s strength in recovery highlighted at United Nations forum
22 May 2013, CERA, Australia - gov
'Cranes and bulldozers and diggers can be hired - they are really just commodities. Institutions and good governance can’t be bought. And when things are really turning to custard, you need strong institutions,' said Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority chief executive Roger Sutton in a speech to the 4th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva, Switzerland, last night...
- Floodplain Management Association national conference - 201328-31 May 2013, Australia
- Disaster management conference29-31 May 2013, Australia (Brisbane)
- The New Zealand climate change conference 201304-05 Jun 2013, New Zealand (Palmerston North)
- Official Statements & Presentations
- The APEC Leaders' growth strategy2010, APEC
- Forty-first Pacific Islands forum communiqué2010, Pacific Islands Forum Sec
General Facts
- Population: 31.8 million (2005)
- Density: 4 per sq km
- Total Area: 8564 sq km (X 1,000)
Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database
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Munich Re: Worldwide distribution of natural catastrophes in 2012Jan 2013, Munich Re
The coming flood: Explore the future's rising seasFeb 2013, PIK
- Australia: To see with both eyes2013, Monash University
- BBC interviews Margareta Wahlström on disaster reduction2011, BBC
- e-lecture on 'Disaster risk reduction and the structural engineer'2010, Monash University
External Online Resources
- Adaptation Partnership: Review of existing and planned adaptation actions (by region and country)
- DARA: Climate vulnerability monitor
- Desinventar: Inventory system of the effects of disasters
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- FAO and emergencies, from prevention to building back better
- FAO: Climate impact on agriculture (CLIMPAG)
- FAO: DRR-TECA (technology for agriculture) practices and technologies
- FAO: Global information and early warning system (GIEWS)
- HelpDesk for Integrated Flood Management (IFM HelpDesk)
- Knowledge network on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
- NZAID: The Pacific strategy 2007-2015: reducing vulnerability
- UNFCCC: local coping strategies database
- Wetlands and climate change adaptation
- WMO: severe weather information centre
- WMO: severe weather information centre: heavy rain/snow
- WMO: severe weather information centre: thunderstorms
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See also
- Alliance of Small Islands States (AOSIS)
- Applied Geoscience and Technology Division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SOPAC)
- Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWS)
- Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
- Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
- Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)