Urban risk & planning

This document provides a framework of guiding principles and general steps addressing the construction of safer and more disaster resilient education facilities. It is aimed to be adapted to the local context and used to develop a context-specific plan to

This case-bound book draws upon experiences around the world reflecting how people are using climate information to improve their lives, through climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies. In this book, over 100 authors are relating

POSTnote, October 2009, Number 342:

According to the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), predicted sea level rise and higher storm surges will increase the risk of coastal erosion and flooding. In response to this challenge, flood

Working paper 182:

This paper explores the implications of climate change for 84 developing countries and 577 of their cyclone-vulnerable coastal cities with populations greater than 100,000. Combining the most recent scientific and demographic

The National Economic Development Authority, with development partners UNDP and AusAid, launched the Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Local Development Planning and Decision-making Processes last week in Manila...

This inception report, prepared at the request of the Government of Samoa includes a section on natural risk management in Samoa - expand the Coastal Infrastructure Management Plan (CIM) strategy to: (i) incorporate issues relating to climate change

After the devastating earthquake in Padang, Indonesia last month that killed thousands, disaster-management experts are recommending ways to reduce the casualties and damage caused by 'natural' disasters...

'A long-term plan with detailed and comprehensive measures is urgently required as the climate is becoming more complicated and abnormal' said Le Huy Ba, director of the Institute for Environmental Science Engineering and Management...