Governance

Transparency International, the global anti-corruption organization, has released a handbook on corruption in relief and reconstruction which integrates the identification of corruption risks into emergency preparedness...

A joint initiative of the National Disaster Coordinating Council, the Office of Civil Defence and the Zamboanga city government, the 'Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Climate Change Adaptation' which will start this week, will include several strategies on how communities can adapt to climate change...

This document offers a general overview of the 'natural' sudden climate disasters status in the Arab region (with case studies from several countries under consideration), and provides linkage between disaster reduction and natural resources management

After researching the effects of climate change on Inuits, James Ford, professor at McGill University (Canada) and a group of colleagues, found that although Inuits are adapting to environmental changes they will need assistance and calls for all levels of government to work with the communities...

Law no. 12,187, of 29th December 2009:

This law institutes the National Policy on Climate Change - PNMC (Política Nacional sobre Mudança do Clima) and establishes its principles, objectives, directives and instruments.

As the Haiti operation moves from rescue to reconstruction, Duncan Green, head of research at Oxfam, discusses the major challenges that can be expected to emerge from the process and examines the results of policies applied to earthquake affected zones in the past...

'It is a proven fact that mitigation creates stronger communities and allows them to break the cycle of disaster damage, reconstruction, and repeated losses' said Federal Coordinating Officer Gerard M. Stolar 'And for every dollar we spend on preventive measures, an average of four dollars is saved'...

The US Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released US$1,176,705 in Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) funds to the Los Angeles Unified School District to perform structural retrofits to classrooms in Manhattan Elementary School...