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The making of the Hyogo2 disaster prevention treaty
17 May 2013, IRIN
Countries have begun discussing what a follow-up action plan, the Hyogo Framework for Action 2 (HFA2), should look like. The results of these talks, a sketch of the HFA2, will be presented at the Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, which begins in Geneva on 19 May...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 4.6 [PDF, 85Kb]Procedures are in place to assess the disaster risk impacts of major development projects, especially infrastructure
- 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
- 7th International conference on river basin management22-24 May 2013, United Kingdom (Ashurst, Southampton)
- Master of science in sustainability, development, and peaceUNU, Japan (Tokyo)
- Alpine Naturgefahren / Wildbach- und LawinenverbauungBOKU, Austria (Vienna)
- MA Environmental security and peaceUPEACE, Costa Rica (San José)
Water stress index 2011May 2011, Maplecroft
Benin: Areas regularly covered by surface water - South BeninJul 2009, OCHA ROWCA
Atlas of JordanJan 2006, IFPO
- Los Páramos: Climate change threatens a fragile ecosystem in the Andes2011, IRI
- Poverty over: climate change2011, CA
- River of hope: Adapting to a changing climate in Mozambique2010, DFID, United Kingdom - gov; SCI
External Online Resources
- 3R initiative: Be buffered
- Adaptation atlas
- Aqueduct’s water risk framework
- CAP-NET: Capacity building for integrated water resource management (IWRM)
- CAP-NET: IWRM and climate change
- China Risk Net - 中国风险网
- ClimatePrep: adaptation stories, lessons, and explorations (WWF)
- Dialogue on climate change adaptation for land and water managment
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- FAO and emergencies, from prevention to building back better
- Global Water Partnership (GWP) ToolBox - library of case studies and references
- HelpDesk for Integrated Flood Management (IFM HelpDesk)
- IRI: Climate risk knowledge for water
- Riverbank erosion and flood in Kazipur, Bangladesh
- UK Climate Impacts Programme: Adaptation actions database
- UN-Water
- US Environmental Protection Agency: Climate change impacts and adapting to change (by sector)
- Water management in Taiwan
- Wetlands and climate change adaptation
- World Bank: A new way of rice cultivation - online toolkit
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