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This study details the risks global cities may face due to a warming world. It examines mitigation and adaptation strategies for developing and developed cities, enabling readers to utilize information on both, and leverage co-benefits between the two.

This study finds that 17 million people were newly displaced by sudden-onset disasters worldwide in 2009, and over 42 million people in 2010. To meet this challenge, the study recommends that greater collaboration is required between those working in the

This is the 2nd edition of the Disaster Risk Management Program for Priority Countries, originally published by GFDRR in 2009. It now includes the country programmes missing in the first edition (Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mali, Senegal, and Philippines, as

This inventory is an attempt to pull together the threads and to identify what does and what does not work in relation to legal, institutional and planning frameworks for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Africa. It aims to further support the

Official declaration made by local governments attending the International forum on the theme: 'Climate Change and local governance: the cities of Africa are committed' held in the City of Saint-Louis, Sénégal, from 16-18 December 2010.

This brief summarises the findings of an preparatory project on the economics of adaptation in least-developed countries (LDCs), carried out by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), in partnership with economists from seven

The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2009-11 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.

This report outlines lessons learnt regarding the principal effects of climate change on 15 cities in low-income countries, and what makes them vulnerable to these effects. Coastal cities are susceptible to a rise in sea level and are made vulnerable by