Governance

New legislation will be introduced in Trinidad next year to enforce developers to pay compensation to owners of property damaged by floods and landslides due to poor building practices...

Romanian president, Traian Basescu has recently promulgated a law, drafted in October 2008, obliging private individuals and legal entities to insure their homes against against earthquakes, landslides and floods...

The Swiss government has launched a nationwide, interactive map tool detailing areas with potential flood danger.

The Met Office, in partnership with the Environment Agency, is to play a key role in flood forecasting following the establishment of a Flood Forecasting Centre for England and Wales...

This submission addresses the risk-related elements referred to in the Bali Action Plan, namely disaster reduction strategies and risk management including risk sharing and transfer mechanisms. It adds further background in respect to the submission to

This information note provides a description of ongoing work within the United Nations system on adaptation to climate change. It presents details of the work undertaken on adaptation by United Nations bodies and programmes, and related organizations of

At the trilateral meeting the leaders agreed on the importance of sharing information on projects, initiatives, good practices, lessons learned and science and technologies to strengthen disaster management capability...

A diez años de que el huracán Mitch devastara varias áreas del país, Guatemala tiene una mejor capacidad de respuesta para enfrentar desastres naturales, según destacaron organizaciones del grupo Regional de Riesgo, Emergencia y Desastre de América Latina y El Caribe...