Documents and publications

Today the world is facing a greater water crisis than ever. Droughts of lesser magnitude are resulting in greater impact. Even in years with normal precipitation, water shortages have become widespread in both developing and developed nations, in humid as

Droughts and their management are a serious challenge to water resource professionals. While droughts predominate in warm, arid regions, their frequency and severity in more temperate regions with more abundant rainfall have been on the rise. This book

This publication is part of the series Hazards and Disasters that marks the conclusion of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) (1990-2000). Storms are fundamental to life on Earth. But their impacts on society (and environment)

The publication informs about people in India and Bangladesh. It reports on women who form savings groups, youths who plant coconut palms that offer protection during cyclones, children who give first aid.

Information provided is based on the rich and first hand experience of the organizations represented on the working group. Guidelines would be of immense help to the coast based industrial installations in developing their own cyclone emergency management

This document provides project summaries as well as scientific objectives and expected impacts of a variety of projects related to avalanche, landslide, earthquake, volcano and multi-risk hazards.

The Good Practice Guide provides advice and guidance on sustainable coastal risk management for local and regional authorities responsible for managing natural hazards at the coast. The publication describes the physical processes of coastal change and

The specific objective of the study was to prepare a synthesis for the general readership on climate change issues for Bangladesh. The modality of achieving this objective is to take note of all the important findings in published literature and put it in