Austria

The policy brief informs local policymakers about the current trends and activities taking place in selected cities that have signed up to the Making Cities Resilient Campaign since 2010. The Summary draws largely on the findings of the Making Cities

This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Austria, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as storm, avalanche, flood and landslide.

This joint report presents a cooperative audit based on eight individual national audit reports from Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia and Ukraine, and a fact-finding study by the European Court of Auditors. It reveals that

The objective of the Austrian adaptation strategy is to avoid the adverse effects of climate change on the environment, society, and the economy and to fully utilize any opportunities that may arise.

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

This volume shows that Austrian mountain research is taking up the challenge of global change for mountain regions. One of the specific themes includes: living in the mountains is living with risk. Natural hazards such as earthquakes, mass movements

This report addresses biosphere reserves and their ability to take up important challenges, such as loss of biodiversity, climate change, tourism and natural disaster prevention. It contains 28 case studies drawn from an international survey and good

This book targets the development of adaptation policy in European countries with different relations between central, regional and local government, asking how adaptation policy at different levels has emerged. Proceeding from a multi-level governance