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International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
- Organization type:UN & International Organization
General contact information
- URL: http://www.iucn.org/ecosystems
- Address: Rue Mauverney 28
- Postal Code: 1196
- City: Gland
- Country: Switzerland
- Telephone: +41 229990000
- Fax: +41 229990002
- Email: radhika.murti@iucn.org
- Head of the organization: Julia Marton-Lefèvre
Mission & Disaster Reduction Profile
IUCN helps the world find pragmatic solutions to the most pressing environment and development challenges. It supports scientific research, manages field projects all over the world and brings governments, non-government organizations, United Nations agencies, companies and local communities together to develop and implement policy, laws and best practice.
- IUCN: New book shows the power of ecosystems to protect us
21 May 2013 - Helping nature help us: Conserve ecosystems, reduce the risk of disasters
15 Jan 2013 - IUCN and GIZ: Disaster risk reduction through school education
1 Aug 2012 - At the crossroads of conservation and development
18 Jun 2012 - IUCN: Natural solutions for disaster risk reduction
15 Mar 2012 - IUCN: 'Nature can help lessen flood impacts'
2 Feb 2012 - IUCN: Empowering local communities defends against climate change
5 Dec 2011 - Launch of new Water Governance Project at COP16
1 Dec 2010 - IUCN: Confidence needs to be restored urgently at the UN climate change talks in Cancun
29 Nov 2010 - IUCN: The future of water in the face of climate change
6 Sep 2010 - IUCN: Integrating environmental safeguards into flood relief, response and recovery.
16 Aug 2010 - IUCN: International year of biodiversity - investing in nature, improving lives
11 Jan 2010 - IUCN: Protected areas – natural solutions to climate change crisis
8 Dec 2009 - IUCN: Call for better protection of forests
23 Oct 2009 - IUCN: Biodiversity indicators and assessments need greater investment
18 Sep 2009 - IUCN: Global Platform 2009 'We must work with nature to keep ourselves safe'
10 Jun 2009
Statements & Presentations
- Report of the experts meeting on sustainable development in the 21st century: a contribution to the High Level Panel on Global Sustainability
2011 - Negotiate: reaching agreements over water
2010 - Water and climate change adaptation
2010 - Building resilience to climate change: ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
2010 - Integrating environmental safeguards into flood relief, response and recovery
2010 - Integrating environmental safeguards into flood relief, response and recovery
2010 - Managing disaster risks for world heritage
2010 - A framework for social adaptation to climate change: sustaining tropical coastal communities and industries
2010 - Natural solutions: protected areas helping people cope with climate change
2010 - Rule: reforming water governance
2009 - Perspectives on water and climate change adaptation: introduction, summaries and key messages
2009 - Environment as infrastructure: resilience to climate change impacts on water through investments in nature
2009 - Climate‐related vulnerability and adaptive‐capacity in Ethiopia’s Borana and Somali communities
2009 - Natural solutions to climate change crisis
2009 - Economic costs of the 2009 floods in the Fiji sugar belt and policy implications
2009 - Environmental guidance note for disaster risk reduction
2009 - Making disaster risk reduction gender-sensitive: policy and practical guidelines
2009 - Share - managing water across boundaries
2008 - Linking disaster risk reduction, environment management and development practices and practitioners in Asia Pacific region: a review of opportunities for integration
2008 - Managing seagrasses for resilience to climate change
2008 - Adapting to global change: Mediterranean forests
2008 - Integrating environmental safeguards into disaster management, a field manual: volume 1, reference material
2008 - Integrating environmental safeguards into disaster management, a field manual: volume 2, the disaster management cycle
2008 - Training manual on gender and climate change
2008 - Disaster risk reduction, concepts and measures
2008 - Manila declaration for global action on gender in climate change and disaster risk reduction
2008 - Building the future: a report on the IUCN programme 2005-2008
2008 - Disaster risk, livelihoods and natural barriers, strengthening decision-making tools for disaster risk reduction: a case study from Northern Pakistan
2008 - CRiSTAL community-based risk screening, adaptation and livelihoods, user's manual
2007 - Protected areas: buffering nature against climate change
2007 - Disaster risk, livelihoods and natural barriers, strengthening decision-making tools for disaster risk reduction
2007 - Mainstreaming gender equality and equity in ABS governance
2007 - Valuation, rehabilitation and conservation of mangroves in tsunami affected areas of Hambantota, Sri Lanka
2006 - Environmental stories: After tsunami
2006 - Managing mangroves for resilience to climate change
2006 - Pragmatic solutions: an assessment of progress 2005
2006 - In the front line: shoreline protection and other ecosystem services from mangroves and coral reefs
2006 - Ecosystems, livelihoods and disasters: an integrated approach to disaster risk management
2006 - Assessment of tsunami impacts on the marine environment of the Seychelles
2005 - National Action Programme (NAP) for combating desertification in Bangladesh
2005 - Reducing West Africa’s vulnerability to climate impacts on water resources, wetlands and desertification: elements for regional strategy for preparedness and adaptation
2004 - Enhancing social sustainability in activities to combat desertification: a manual for reflection
2004 - Change: adaptation of water resources management to climate change
2003 - Livelihoods and climate change: combining disaster risk reduction, natural resource management and climate change adaptation in a new approach to the reduction of vulnerability and poverty
2003 - Risk assessment and risk management in implementing the Cartagena Protocol: proceedings of Asia regional workshop, New Delhi, 22-24 May 2002
2003
- Workshop: Reducing environmental risks naturally - Guidance for IUCN's disaster risk reduction
07 Sep 2012 - IUCN world conservation congress 2012
06-15 Sep 2012 - Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction for sustainable development
05-08 Jul 2012 - Rio+20 partnerships forum: partnerships for advancing gender equality and sustainability
21 Jun 2012 - International workshop on large-scale natural disaster and protected areas
17 Feb 2012 - COP 17 side event: Policies for mobilizing nature-based adaptation action in Africa
02 Dec 2011 - Adaptation knowledge day II
11 Jun 2011 - Ecosystems, livelihoods and disaster risk reduction workshop
21-23 Sep 2010 - Capacity building workshop for women on capacity building development (CBD) processes
15-18 Dec 2009 - Capacity building workshop for women on capacity building development (CBD) processes
01-03 Jun 2009
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- Recovery
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- Early Warning
- Vulnerable Populations
- Information Management
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- Critical Infrastructure
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- Urban Risk & Planning
- Climate Change
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- Insurance & Risk Transfer
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- Education & School Safety
- Food Security & Agriculture
- Hazards
- Land Slide
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