National policies, plans and risk and governance profile(s)

This is the second edition of the National Risk Profile. The publication comprises 13 incident types, which potentially can lead to major accidents and disasters in Denmark.

This study maps how concerned members of the public are that Denmark will be affected by a range of emergency incidents within the next five years, how concerned they are that they will be directly affected, how likely they believe such incidents are to

This collection of 10 European case studies showcases measures that are already being carried out in Europe to increase resilience to extreme weather and slow-onset events, as well as improve adaptation to climate change. 

Climate change adaptation

The aim of this technical paper is to provide the state-of-play in policy and practice for assessing social vulnerability and developing socially just adaptation responses to climate change in urban areas in Europe.

The paper is organized as follows: It

This Action plan for a climate-proof Denmark provides an overview of the initiatives that the government has either planned, or already set in motion, to ensure that Denmark will become more resilient to climate change. 

In its government programme A

This book provides an overview of OECD countries' efforts to collect information on both the economic impacts of disasters and the level of public resources invested in the management of risk. It is based on the results of an OECD survey, two expert

This report provides a synthetic view of national risk assessments (NRAs) in twenty OECD Member countries. NRA are used to support risk management decisions in a rapidly changing global risk landscape characterized by increasingly complex, interconnected

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The aim of the Baltadapt project was to formulate an outline of a Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region, as well as an accompanying Action Plan with recommended actions and proposed guidelines for climate change adaptation.

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