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Water resource management strategies which mitigate the risk of floods and drought, as well as the improvement of water conservation and water quality.
Neglected 'everyday' disasters fuel rising losses for poorest
22 May 2013, AlertNet
'People's own determination to get out of poverty should be matched by our commitment to redistribute risk and build equality, thereby supporting them to thrive and prosper, rather than just cope and survive in a world of increasing risks,' Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wrote in a foreword to the Views from the Frontline report...
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
- Climate literacy: Navigating climate change conversations20 May - 19 Jul 2013, Online
- Climate change and regional response 2013 (CCRR-2013)27-29 May 2013, Germany (Dresden, Westin Bellevue)
- Climate change and regional response: Impacts and adaptation strategies for public, commercial and private actors (CCRR-2013)27-29 May 2013, Germany (Dresden)
- 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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