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Almost 90 cities issued heat alerts in the extreme weather over the summer of 2022, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. But cities are learning to tackle extreme heat – sometimes with ingenious solutions.
World Economic Forum
Family posing for photos amidst flooding and storm surge from Hurricane Sally along Lake Pontchartrain
In collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Deltares today presented the four-yearly report about the observed sea level on the Dutch Coast.
Deltares
Cover CSS ETH Zuerich
2023
This CSS Risk and Resilience Report provides a comparative analysis of national risk assessments. Specifically, it compares the assessments made by nine European countries and Swiss Re respectively of five types of cross-​border risks.
Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich

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2014

This is the revised practical guide of the National Safety and Security Strategy. The primary aim of this guide is to provide a user’s guide for all those people working in whichever capability with the National Safety and Security Strategy.

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Ministry of Security and Justice
2018

This national handbook on decision-making in crisis situations presents the main points of central government’s crisis management policy and the national crisis organisation system. It works out the principles laid down in the ministerial crisis 

Ministry of Security and Justice
2016

This document sets out the Netherlands’ national climate adaptation strategy. It has been produced under the responsibility of the Minister for the Environment, acting on behalf of the Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment, the Minister of Health

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2015
The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the 2013-15 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and the ISDR partnership.
Ministry of Security and Justice
2012
The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2011-13 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and the ISDR partnership.
Ministry of Security and Justice