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'Educational guides for community training in disaster risk management, prepared by Cuban scientists, are presently applied in Nicaragua,' according to Dr Guasch, from the National Center for Seismologic Research...

President Benigno S.C. Aquino III had an expanded bilateral meeting with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to discuss key issues. Both countries agreed that the two governments 'must work closely together to protect [their] people from national disasters'...

This working paper introduces the National Adaptive Capacity (NAC) framework, a tool to assist governments in bringing institutional capacity development into their adaptation planning processes. The NAC framework enables its users to systematically

This policy brief aims to facilitate integration of environment and climate change risks and opportunities into Swedish Development Cooperation in Mozambique. The key environmental challenges in this country include ecosystem services, disaster risk

This paper proposes a methodology to examine the potential of existing National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans NAFSIPs to generate climate change benefits. A rapid screening methodology is presented and applied to 14 NAFSIPs, all of which

According to Apichart, infrastructure such as roads and bridges obstructed natural water flows and sluice gates constructed mainly for irrigation were not efficient as it did not stop the torrent of water from overflowing...

'It's always dangerous to make predictions about El Nino, but it's safe to say we'll see one in the next three years.' 'It won't take a very strong El Nino to push temperatures above 2010'...

La elección de Río de Janeiro como sede de la nueva oficina obedece a las usuales catástrofes naturales que hay en Brasil, especialmente en el verano austral, época de lluvias, que suele causar decenas de muertos por inundaciones y deslices de tierra...