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Environment
Reducing the impacts of natural hazards on vulnerable communities and countries through sound environmental management policies and approaches in disaster risk reduction.
Colombia failing to put climate policy into action - Scientists
15 May 2013, AlertNet
National Environmental Forum president Rodriguez stressed the need for more research on climate change adaptation. 'Nowadays, science and technology research - quite different from what was developed in the past - should include the climate change aspect,' he said. Climate change adaptation will be on of the issues discussed at the Global platform for disaster risk reduction conference this Friday...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 4.1 [PDF, 104Kb]Disaster risk reduction is an integral objective of environment related policies and plans, including for land use natural resource management and adaptation to climate change
- Indicator 4.2 [PDF, 102Kb]Social development policies and plans are being implemented to reduce the vulnerability of populations most at risk
- Online learning: Climate smart agriculture07 May - 01 Jul 2013, Online
- World environmental and water resources congress 2013: 'Showcasing the future'19-22 May 2013, United States of America (Cincinnati, OH)
- Climate literacy: Navigating climate change conversations20 May - 19 Jul 2013, Online
- LEAD Europe sustainability leadership programmeLEAD Intl.
- Management of natural and human induced disastersHarokopeion Univ, Greece (Athens)
- PH.D. course on climate strategy and adaptation economicsNORD-STAR; Univ of Iceland, Iceland (Reykjavík)
Manual de ingenieria naturalistica2012, Plan Intl; SNGR, Ecuador - gov; UNDP Ecuador
Environmental legislation for disaster risk management: training module2013, GIZ, Germany - gov; IGEP; NIDM, India - gov
WorldRiskIndex as the result of exposure and vulnerabilityOct 2012, Alliance Dev Works; UNU-EHS
Maplecroft: Climate change vulnerability index 2013 – Most at risk citiesNov 2012, Maplecroft
Italy: ecoregional protected areas and wildfire hotspots mapJul 2008, WWF
External Online Resources
- A GDRC special feature on environmental management and disaster risk reduction
- China Risk Net - 中国风险网
- ClimatePrep: adaptation stories, lessons, and explorations (WWF)
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- Earth journalism toolkit
- FAO and emergencies, from prevention to building back better
- IMCORE: initiatives to manage coastal risks linked to climate change
- Martinique: risques et nuisances (in French)
- Projet ANR COCORISCO: COnnaissance, COmpréhension et gestion des RISques Côtiers
- UK Climate Impacts Programme: Adaptation actions database
- US Environmental Protection Agency: Climate change impacts and adapting to change (by sector)
- Wetlands and climate change adaptation
- WHO and UNEP: Health and Environment Linkages Initiative (HELI), climate change risk for policymakers
- WHO: Health and climate change
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