Bolivia, Plurinational State of

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Cover and source: Global Earthquake Model Foundation
This seismic risk profile of Bolivia, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.
Cover Stories of Climate Change
'Everyday Stories of Climate Change', is a comic that threads together qualitative research about low-income families' experiences and adaptation to climate change across five countries.

This report follows up on the 2009 Oxfam report which highlighted the challenges that Bolivia would face due to the impacts of climate variability and change, including: food security; glacial retreat and its effect on the availability of drinking water

El Ministerio de Defensa, a través del Viceministerio de Defensa Civil -VIDECI, desarrolla acciones de institucionalización de la Gestión de Riesgos en Bolivia, en su rol de responsable de definir políticas, estrategias y de coordinar e implementar tareas

This case study reveals the successful experience of FEDPRACAO CBBA, a bolivian producer organization that recently developed a Climate Resilience Plan based on cocoa for adaptating and mitigating the effects of climate change. 

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Water governance has attracted increased attention as a policy concern in recent years because climate change is expected to increase the variability between wet and dry regions, and wet and dry seasons, leading to challenges associated with water

Compendium of good practice on post disaster recovery in the Latin America and Caribbean Region
This compendium presents good practices in post-disaster recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean in order to spread and highlight the work and recovery processes taking place in different countries of the region.

The MAP-Fire project team have developed a prototype of a monitoring and alert platform to support the planning and decision making at local and regional scales related to the fire occurrence in the MAP region - Western Amazon.

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