Environment and ecosystems

This year's edition focuses on urban areas and the environment, stating that cities are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts because they concentrate people, infrastructure, and economic activity. It explores how cities and climate change are

Le Togo a décidé, avec l’appui du Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement (PNUD) de former ses cadres environnementaux au Système d’information Géographique (SIG) et de Télédétection...

Commonwealth Secretariat discussion paper number 5:

This paper addresses the human rights dimensions of climate change, urging a human rights approach be taken in climate change negotiations, through mitigation and adaptation strategies. It maps the

The co-editors of the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment (IJDRBE), Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga and Dr Richard Haigh, are inviting reviewers to review articles for their journal...

This book demonstrates how science and innovation can be harnessed to tackle today’s biggest challenges in poor countries. Its scope includes: (i) the impact of climate change and other future threats and how science can contribute to building

The programme is aimed at reducing the risk of disasters by sensitizing communities about the possible dangers, supporting them to form disaster risk reduction groups and helping them to undertake vulnerability and capacity assessments in order to develop community action plans...

This publication allows African women and men to describe, in their own words, how climate change is affecting their lives and how they are adapting to survive. It addresses strategies that can be implemented by communities in order to adapt to the

Federal Environment Minister Röttgen announced that the German government will use around 30% of the fast-start financing for international climate protection for the prevention of deforestation in developing countries and will pay 10 million euros into the Kyoto Protocol's Adaptation Fund to support adaptation measures in developing countries that are particularly affected by climate change...