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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.
IUCN: 'Nature can help lessen flood impacts'
2 Feb 2012, IUCN
'Ecosystems such as forests, floodplains, wetlands including mangroves provide the natural infrastructure needed to lessen the impacts of flooding,' says Taholo Kami, Regional Director of IUCN Oceania Regional Office...
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
- 2nd Asia-Pacific water summit APWS05-06 Feb 2012, Thailand (Bangkok)
- International seminar on role of forests in natural disasters05 Feb 2012, Japan (Sendai, Miyagi)
- E-learning course on safe and resilient cities06-29 Feb 2012, United States of America (Washington D.C.)
- Postgraduate courses on 'Building resilience to climate change'UN-CECAR, Japan (Tokyo)
- Alpine Naturgefahren / Wildbach- und LawinenverbauungBOKU, Vienna
- MA Environmental security and peaceUPEACE, Costa Rica (San José)
Criteria for use in preparedness and response for a nuclear or radiological emergency2011, IAEA
Disaster waste management guidelines2011, MSB, Sweden - gov; UNEP; OCHA
Italy: ecoregional protected areas and wildfire hotspots mapJul 2008, WWF
Atlas of JordanJan 2006, IFPO
- Los Páramos: Climate change threatens a fragile ecosystem in the Andes2011, IRI
- Weather hastened Haiti quake - experts2011, AlertNet
- Bangladesh: Building mangrove greenbelts on vulnerable coastline2010, OneClimate.net
- Technical specialists - Resilience in the Limpopo river basinMozambique , ARD
- Disaster management communications manager, Asia PacificThailand (Bangkok), WSPA
- Environmental specialistFiji (Suva), WHO
External Online Resources
- A GDRC special feature on environmental management and disaster risk reduction
- 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)
- UK Climate Impacts Programme: Adaptation actions database
- 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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