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Australia: Communication strategy for disaster resilience - Survey
16 May 2013, AEMI, Australia - gov
What do you know about the Australian National Strategy for Disaster Resilience (NSDR)? Do you have a great idea about how to spread the key messages of the NSDR? As part of the National Emergency Management Project AEMI are taking a survey. Learn more on what Australia's doing at the Global Platform...
- 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)