Governance

Cairo - Arab and Islamic nations discuss preparations to reduce the risk of disaster in the initial meeting of the newly established Disaster Risk Reduction Center...

As one of the five objectives of this strategy, IDB focuses on the institutional management for natural disaster prevention, considering that the development challenge facing Nicaragua is to build the country’s capacity for environmental sustainability

Opinion: Gautama Adi Kusuma, Ph.D candidate at the Center for Public Administration and Policy, Virginia Tech, USA, calls for investment in long-term risk reduction and political will at election time...

This document presents a programme framework for an enhanced approach to comprehensive disaster management (CDM) in the Caribbean. It is intended to emphasize disaster loss reduction through risk management, and to follow a more programme based approach

This report was released for the India Economic Summit which took place in New Delhi, 2-4 December 2007. It explores further trends, potential impacts and mitigation relevant to six key risks, previously identified, facing India. They include climate

Overall, the Global Risk Network identified 23 core global risks to the international community over the
next 10 years, including climate change and natural catastrophe such as tropical storms, earthquakes, and inland flooding. This report develops risk

This report seeks to help decision-makers form answers to three main questions: What are the major global risks facing Europe? How might these global risks play out over a 10-20 year period? What, if anything, is Turkey’s role in mitigating these risks

Oxfam briefing note:

This paper calls for a radical rethink in the way South Asian governments implement policies to defend against floods and respond to their aftermath. It urges governments and donors to invest in reducing the risk of disasters as a