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Wildfires can disrupt education systems by damaging schools, interrupting learning and affecting the wellbeing of students, teachers and communities.

Beyond physical damage, wildfire smoke, evacuations and displacement can create prolonged challenges for access to education and learning continuity, particularly for vulnerable groups. Explore the latest research, insights and resources on the impacts of wildfires on education and the measures needed to build safer, more resilient learning environments.

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This report presents France’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, cyclone, avalanche, earthquake, landslide, volcano and wild fire, and discusses institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction (DRR).

International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
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Series: Education as a Humanitarian Response:

What is the relationship between education and natural disasters? Can education play a role in ameliorating and mitigating them, preparing people in how to respond, and even helping to prevent them? If so

Bloomsbury Publishing
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This report presents Myanmar’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as storm, earthquake, flood and wildfire, and discusses country’s national disaster system and practice and institutional involvement. It describes national disaster reduction plan

Myanmar - government
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This report describes the country’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as earthquake, flood, landslide and wildfire and presents institutional and legal framework for disaster management in Armenia. It discusses in depth the national seismic

Armenia - government
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The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2011-13 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.

National Security Council
Lisbon municipality
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Portugal: Join Lisbon to take a step forward in risk reduction!

The Lisbon Municipal Civil Protection Department commemorated this year the International Day for Disaster Reduction on the week 15-19 October, with a range of school sessions about information and awareness in the educational establishments, designed to prepare the scholar and student population to know how to act in a situation of catastrophe...

Lisbon Municipality
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This second edition significantly expands the existing evidence base to help shift policy and practice within the climate change domain. The climate section on environmental disasters, using drought, floods, landslides, storms, wildfires, heating, cooling

DARA - Spain
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Australia: Awards to recognise disaster resilience

Entries for the 2012 Resilient Australia Awards are now open and Executive Director of Security and Emergency Management at Justice and Community Safety, Baden McMaster, is encouraging Canberrans to nominate individuals or organisations who they feel have made a made a difference to disaster resilience within their community...

Australia - government
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