Documents and publications

The 2007 Year Book includes global and regional overviews of signifi cant developments over the past year. It highlights linkages among ecosystem health, human well-being, and economic development; examines new thinking on the value of ecosystem services

Vietnam’s geography makes it one of the most disaster-prone countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Every year its long coastline is hit by several typhoons that breach sea dykes and cause damage to houses, crops and aquaculture. The mangrove plantations

This review examines good practices to reduce disaster risk through education, knowledge and innovation (including efforts to protect schools from extreme natural events). It looks critically and strategically at current activities in order to identify

This initiative has provided an overall integrated framework for strengthening early warning systems in the Indian Ocean, and has been focusing on key components that include core system implementation, integrated risk management, public awareness and

Although DSS is a natural phenomenon that has affected Northeast Asia for thousands of years, it has occurred more frequently in the past 50 years. Its geographic coverage has expanded and the intensity of damage increased largely because of continued

This book offers a comprehensive account of early warning systems developed for hydro-meteorological disasters such as floods, storms, etc. and for geological disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic activity or mountain hazards. One major theme is the

Community participation has been recognized as the additional element in disaster management necessary to reverse the worldwide trend of exponential increase in disaster occurrence of and loss from small- and medium-scale disasters, build a culture of

This is an abridged version of the publication UNCDR Tapestry: community based disaster management activities.