Documents and publications

This brochure addresses construction and land-use planning to mitigate the risk against hazards in earthquake-prone regions, and especially in the inhabited areas in Pakistan. It presents a programme which aims: (i) to build the resilience of communities

This publication contains 33 good practices presented as innovative and sustainable models of risk reduction such as: rainfall insurance, water harvesting and soil conservation adopting traditional techniques, promotion of disaster resistant housing

This paper presents an update on Africa’s climate change and development agenda from June 2009 to date and addresses disaster risk reduction within the implementation of climate-change related continental/regional programmes. It calls for new, additional

This paper is calling for the Government of Haiti and the international community to focus on reducing the impact of future disasters. It asserts that Haiti’s disasters cannot be prevented, but that their effects on the people who live here can be minimised by investments in pre-disaster preparedness and disaster risk reduction (DRR), and that DRR must be treated as a critical component of any reconstruction and recovery framework for the country.

This document addresses disasters as part of the common risk factors which threaten women’s safety, specifically in urban environment, and the areas of women’s capacity, well-being and citizenship to be improved. It shares and promotes successful

This publication presents a review of the progress on the implementation of the action plan to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented information society in the Asia-Pacific region, including systems to assist, assess, reduce, monitor

In Spanish:

Este libro presenta los resultados de estudios para la evaluación de la vulnerabilidad y la identificación de opciones de adaptación al cambio climático de la zona costera del Golfo de México, y los posibles escenarios socioeconómicos

In Spanish:

Este libro presenta los resultados de estudios para la evaluación de la vulnerabilidad y la identificación de opciones de adaptación al cambio climático de la zona costera del Golfo de México, y los posibles escenarios socioeconómicos