Documents and publications

The publication informs about people in India and Bangladesh. It reports on women who form savings groups, youths who plant coconut palms that offer protection during cyclones, children who give first aid.

Information provided is based on the rich and first hand experience of the organizations represented on the working group. Guidelines would be of immense help to the coast based industrial installations in developing their own cyclone emergency management

This document provides project summaries as well as scientific objectives and expected impacts of a variety of projects related to avalanche, landslide, earthquake, volcano and multi-risk hazards.

The Good Practice Guide provides advice and guidance on sustainable coastal risk management for local and regional authorities responsible for managing natural hazards at the coast. The publication describes the physical processes of coastal change and

The specific objective of the study was to prepare a synthesis for the general readership on climate change issues for Bangladesh. The modality of achieving this objective is to take note of all the important findings in published literature and put it in

This paper provides an assessment of broad trends in progress on assessment and implementation of adaptation to climate change in “developed countries”, defined here as being Member states of the OECD and/or Parties listed under Annex I of the United

Pacific Island communities are particularly vulnerable to natural
disasters - ranging from tropical cyclones, drought, floods, storm
surges and tsunamis. Each year, these events result in significant
loss of life, the destruction of homes, public

The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change is a serious global threat, and it demands an urgent global response.
This Review has assessed a wide range of evidence on the impacts of climate change and on the economic costs, and has used a