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'Mangroves reduce tsunami impacts' - Researchers
31 Jan 2012, PRWeb
Researchers at the Disaster Research Nexus at Universiti Sains Malaysia developed a tsunami simulation model to investigate the role of coastal vegetation in reducing the impact of such events, reported PRWEB...
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
- 2nd Asia-Pacific water summit APWS05-06 Feb 2012, Thailand (Bangkok)
- The 4th international symposium on hydraulic structures (4th IAHR)09-11 Feb 2012, Portugal (Porto)
- GRF one health summit: One health - one planet - one future19-23 Feb 2012, Switzerland (Davos)
- Alpine Naturgefahren / Wildbach- und LawinenverbauungBOKU, Vienna
- MA Environmental security and peaceUPEACE, Costa Rica (San José)
- Master’s in International Cooperation and Humanitarian AidHumanitarian Aid Studies Centre - Proyecto Kalu, Spain (Online)
Responding to climate change in New York State: the ClimAID integrated assessment for effective climate change adaptation2011, CUNY; Columbia Univ; Cornell Univ; NYSERDA, United States of America - gov
Accounting for health impacts of climate change2011, ADB; Sida
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, Christian Aid
- River of hope: Adapting to a changing climate in Mozambique2010, DFID; Save the Children UK
- Technical specialists - Resilience in the Limpopo river basinMozambique , ARD
- Regional manager, Asia, Middle East & Europe regionUnited States of America , ARC
- Programme manager, response preparednessChad (N’Djamena), NLRC
External Online Resources
- 3R initiative: Be buffered
- Adaptation atlas
- CAP-NET: Capacity building for integrated water resource management (IWRM)
- CAP-NET: IWRM and climate change
- 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
- Water management in Taiwan
- Wetlands and climate change adaptation
- World Bank: A new way of rice cultivation - online toolkit
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