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This documents presents the recommendations elaborated during the Round Table on The Value Added of Women in Civil Protection organised with the support of Algerian Civil Protection in Algiers on 26 March 2012. The document includes Round Table

22nd Session CPL(22)2:

The objectives of this report are: to give a brief and general overview of the state of cities with respect to global trends in climate and other factors such as demographics and urbanisation; to analyse the factors that make a

This publication outlines the 12 most important humanitarian lessons from the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) peer reviews, profiles examples of good donor behaviour highlighted in the peer reviews, and sketches out the challenges donors still

The present volume features concise summaries of fifteen case studies compiled over a period of three years, providing ‘snapshots’ of water management and use today in diverse regions of the world. These case studies, by design, closely complement the

This issue reports on the most catastrophic events of 2011, which has been the most expensive natural disaster year to date with economic losses amounting to some US$ 380bn. It focuses on the 11 March 2011 Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident

This abstract book of the Second World Landslide Forum reviews 29 sessions addressing: landslides and land-use systems, food security, wild fires, extreme weather, GIS applications developments, socio-economic impact, transportation network and lifelines

This report reviews the recent major earthquakes that took place in Chile, New Zealand, Japan, Italy and Turkey, amongst others. It states that the disastrous events of the last two years are a reminder that large parts of the globe are heavily exposed to

These reports provide observations, projections and impacts of climate change on 23 countries. These provide up to date science on how the climate has already changed and the potential consequences of future changes. They complement those published by the