Governance

This document presents the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies plan for 2008-2009 to respond to the effects of disasters on a daily basis, in countries where the public infrastructures are weak or non-existent.

Under their humanitarian mandate

This document presents the DG ECHO's humanitarian actions evaluation which purpose is to assess the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction, with a focus on different relief sectors and stages in the disaster cycle.

In addition, the evaluation includes

Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament:

This document proposes an European Union (EU) strategy for supporting disaster risk reduction (DRR) in developing countries through both development cooperation and

Based on a literature review in selected areas of environmental policy, the OECD report suggests that the economic costs of failing to introduce environmental policies that are “sufficiently ambitious”, can be considerable in facing numerous environmental

The Chinese government will spend an extra 8 billion yuan ($1.17 billion) this year on making schools in earthquake-prone areas safer, state media said on Thursday...

This summary describes the five priorities for action of the Hyogo Framework for Action within a table enhancing the themes and cross cutting issues, as well as the general considerations and actors involved in the implementation and follow-up.

Destructive flooding regularly occurs in Arkansas while only one percent of the state's residents and businesses have flood insurance. Some may not be purchasing insurance due to a number of misconceptions about the National Flood Insurance Program...

La population suisse n'est pas suffisamment protégée contre les séismes. Le Conseil fédéral a décidé de promouvoir le programme de mesures de mitigation des séismes...