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This report reviews the progress made in addressing the vulnerabilities of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) through the implementation of the Mauritius Strategy, which includes natural and environmental disasters as one of its themes and means of

This document includes brief case studies which identify “natural solutions”, which are often an essential contribution to cost effective climate change adaptation and mitigation. They emphasize the role of natural systems for regulating water flow

With support from ProVention, IFRC and OAS developed a set of 6 non-technical manuals aimed at promoting community-based disaster risk reduction activities in the following fields:

  1. School Maintenance
  2. Disaster Mitigation of Rural Water Supplies

This map illustrates population density within and outside of a 10m Low Elevation Coastal Zone: Belize.
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. (2007).

Country-level estimates of urban, rural and total

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This report assesses the impacts of Hurricane Keith in Belize from 30 September to 1 October 2000. It appraises the macroeconomic and environmental effects and presents a sector by sector analysis leading to an overall assessment of the damage.

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