Maldives

In the year after the carnage, significant progress has been made in feeding and housing survivors and clearing debris from fish ponds and fields to allow farmers to resume work. Much remains to be done as emphasis shifts from relief to reconstruction and

A community focused early warning sytems is the urgent need of the hour to empower, to mitigate, to be aware and prepared for the onslaught of natural hazards and its impacts. However, we are also exposed to its limitations, scope and reach. Efforts are

Since that dreadful day the international community has pulled together in support of those who have lost everything. Australia was among the first of many countries to offer emergency humanitarian aid. The Australian public’s overwhelming response to the

This project report from UNESCO provides details of the work completed under the “Educational materials for education for natural disaster preparedness in Asia-Pacific in the context of education for sustainable development” project. Details of the

This report identifies a practical methodology to understand and quantify the natural hazards faced by the proposed safe islands or any inhabited island of Maldives.

This book is based on interviews conducted by research teams in March and April 2005 with hundreds of tsunami survivors, government officials, human rights activists, and aid workers in five tsunami-affected countries-India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the

This report is the product of close cooperation between UNEP and national environmental authorities and experts. It provides a preliminary ground-level look at the tsunami’s impact on various sectors of the region’s environment. It highlights problems in need of immediate attention, underscoring the strong link between environment and sustainable livelihood and the need for improved early warning and disaster preparedness systems.

The report is published with the objective of presenting in a clear and timely manner, an analytical overview of the state of the environment focusing on issues, policies and strategies of the key environmental challenges confronting the Maldives today