Reducing the impacts of natural hazards on vulnerable communities and countries through sound environmental management policies and approaches in disaster risk reduction.
14 Jun 2013, IRIN
The absence of accurate climate prediction models should not dissuade countries from choosing the best ways to adapt to a changing climate, says a new report published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences...
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
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