Complex Emergency

A humanitarian crisis in a country, region or society where there is total or considerable breakdown of authority resulting from internal or external conflict and which requires an international response that goes beyond the mandate or capacity of any single agency and/or the ongoing United Nations country program. - (IASC)

Disaster prevention key to stopping climate displacement

19 Jan 2012, UNISDR

'It's all about adaptation' says José Riera of UNHCR, who calls for governments to move beyond traditional development planning, erecting physical barriers for flood protection, providing new agricultural techniques, and making early warning systems available. 'DRR is a component of the solution'...