Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

Seeking new ways to strengthen community resilience, city officials from Thailand and Viet Nam today began a two-day exchange with counterparts in the Philippines to examine the award-winning “Purok system” used by the city of San Francisco, Philippines, to empower ordinary people to find solutions for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.

A BBC special debate from Bangkok on the future of disaster management in Asia, in which Mike Williams asks what makes Asia so vulnerable to 'natural' disasters, what the region can do to lessen the impact of these disasters, and how it can adapt to the increased numbers of disasters forecast for the future...

The current study is a part of "Regenerative Agriculture and Sustainable Livelihoods for Vulnerable Ecosystems" (RESOLVE) programme, which intends to explore the magnitude and impacts of different natural hazards namely flood, riverbank erosion, salinity

Study for the harmonization of knowledge and experience from the indigenous/local, technical and scientific spheres for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change (CC) programming:

The aim of the study is to visualize the current situation on the

This report deals with the UNESCO Office Jakarta three-year project entitled 'Strengthening Resilience of Coastal and Small Island Communities towards Hydro-meteorological Hazards and Climate Change Impacts (StResCom)'. This project was launched in

This report on adaptation to climate variability and change draws together the conclusions of a series of comparative case studies undertaken for the Area-Based Development and Climate Change (ABDCC) project of the Social Development Department of the

As the United Nations today commemorates the 17th International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples under the theme of "Indigenous designs: celebrating stories and cultures, crafting our own future", it is perhaps timely to flag the positive contributions such cultures are able to make to DDR and CCA.

En Perú la alianza indígena, quiere que el nuevo gobierno de Ollanta Humala que tomará posesión el próximo jueves 28 de Julio, emprenda políticas de adaptación al cambio climático...