Critical infrastructure

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon remarks at the opening of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction office and the ISDR Training Centre for Urban Risk Reduction in Incheon, Republic of Korea...

A/CONF.172/11/Add.5:

This paper addresses the consideration that prevention is better than cure: that planning to minimize the effects of natural hazards is preferable to responding to the often disastrous effects of such hazards.

This paper is a

A contribution to the preparations for the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II):

This document emphasizes the importance of urbanization for the level of risk of natural disasters and other phenomena, and highlights the

This annual report contains an inventory of the major disasters that occured in Cameroon in 2008 and an analysis of the government's civil protection policy.

Proceeding volume of the National Workshop, 30 September-01 October 2008, New Delhi:

This document on chemical disaster management contains detailed descriptive lectures, talks of holistic disaster management (DM) framework, integration of chemical risk

The Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction present a framework of guiding principles and general steps to develop a context-specific plan to address this critical gap to reaching EFA and the MDGs through the disaster resilient construction and

This guide is intended to demonstrate the value of using built environment professionals more widely in disaster risk reduction and response. It shows how their skills and expertise can be applied at all stages of disaster management. It highlights that

Durante la presentación mundial dela Tercera Conferencia Mundial sobre el Clima, la OMM en sus comunicados oficiales destacó ampliamente el intenso trabajo del Gobierno de Colombia, por medio del proyecto Piloto de Adaptación Nacional...