Governance

The goal of this interdisciplinary study is to better understand the land use factors that increase vulnerability of mountain areas in northern Pakistan. The study will identify and analyse the damages and losses caused by the October 2005 earthquake in

This new edition of the State of the World provides hope amidst the grim certainty that we are living in the early years of a vast unplanned change in the planet’s climate. All the authors in this book agree that it is anything but too late to save the

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'Visión de Primera Línea' es un proyecto de investigación y acción realizado por protagonistas de la sociedad civil conjuntamente con organismos gubernamentales. Su propósito es medir el avance hacia la implementación del Marco de Acción de

IDS working paper number 315, 2009

This research, undertaken with a set of partner research institutes, examines how to manage climate-related impacts in an urban context by promoting planned and autonomous adaptation in order to by improve resilience in

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Reference Report 2005: Malta, 25-27 November 2005

This article is a call for action for the integration of disaster risk reduction into development planning and practices, to reduce human, social economic and

Jointly organized by the NCEA of the Ministry of Forestry and UNEP, officials attending the seminar yesterday discussed matters on facilitating continuous development in storm-hit regions...

Extensive logging and mining are being blamed for severe flash-floods that submerged large parts of the southern island of Mindanao this month...

The number of people killed in natural disasters spiked in 2008, with most of the lives claimed by Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar and the Sichuan earthquake in China, according to figures released by the UN...