Lebanon

The Lebanon Forest Note articulates opportunities for supporting the protection and sustainable management of Lebanon’s forest landscapes. This is part of the World Bank's Country Forest Notes series.

This study focuses on the opportunities, challenges and uncertainties resulting from the integration of land use planning into efficient DRR. GIS-based analyses were first conducted on the current land use/land cover of the Assi floodplain in Lebanon.

This country profile for Lebanon provides a summary of available evidence on climate hazards, health vulnerabilities, health impacts and progress to date in health sector efforts to realize a climate-resilient health system.

The MENAdrought project aims to provide tools to anticipate, prepare for and mitigate drought impacts. In Lebanon, technical monitoring and forecasting, an institutional drought framework, and a drought management task force are being developed.

This report summarizes MENAdrought findings on the underlying causes of vulnerability to drought impacts in Lebanon. It serves as a link between the impact assessment and policy planning process.

The purpose of this paper is to critically assess the operational aspect of pedestrian evacuation models for flash floods mitigation. A number of evacuation models exist in literature, but investigations of their operational aspects and efficient

Co-production of recovery plans with the public is the focus of this week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 33). The briefing identifies three core barriers to co-production (Pace, Distance [physical and social], and Complexity [of the context]) to provide a broad framework to facilitate co-production of recovery and renewal from COVID.

This report focuses on the gaps and challenges in referral pathways and inter-sector coordination specifically in Beirut after the 4 August 2020 Blast, and presents recommendations to improve access to multi-sector services of vulnerable communities. The