Traditional and Indigenous knowledges

This paper addresses the demographic change and the global ageing population debate within the emerging challenges to sustainable development identified in the run up to Rio+20: migration and displacement, water and food security, natural disasters and

This document is the final report of the of the Climate Change Adaptation Project (CCAP), which was designed to identify and operationalize practical, meaningful and cost-effective adaptation solutions to the most challenging impacts of climate change

The 'Seeds for Needs' project, which is endorsed by Ethiopia's Institute for Biodiversity Conservation and the National Agricultural Research Institute offers a tool for farmers that helps them to choose the seeds which are suitable for them...

Thanks to the widespread early warning systems and regular community preparedness drills Cuba is rated as the country who has the lowest number of storm-related fatalities in the region...

The value of community-based approaches to disaster risk reduction is likely to grow in the face of more volatile climatic conditions and the limited capacities of governments to respond to threats, writes Cliff Hague...

An 'Android-based data entry application has been developed to help conduct socio-economic and vulnerability assessment', said the Director-General of the Provincial DMA - who emphasized 'local people were usually aware of vulnerable spots and they could be a good source of information about risky areas'...

A report on SEEDS Asia's ‘Reaching the Unreachable: Disaster Risk Reduction Education Project', that teaches life saving techniques to people living in cyclone, earthquake and flood affected areas - and transfers local knowledge. Local participants of the workshop learned about safe building structures and climate change...

UNISDR Chief, Margareta Wahlström, today visited parts of Vietnam's Mekong Delta which were affected by storm surges last October and are most vulnerable to rising sea levels caused by climate change.