Documents and publications

This document provides practical examples of IFAD's efforts to help poor rural people dealing with the inevitable impact of climate change by listening to their voices while planning adaptation and mitigation efforts in order to reduce the risks of

These three sectoral reports were produced to complete the Malaysian National slope master plan 2009-2023 with the aim of formulating a detailed, comprehensive and effective framework of policies, strategies and action plans to reduce risks from landslides on slopes nationwide. The plan included activities at the national, state and local levels in both the public and private sectors.

COMSTE conference engineering resilience, confronting risk beyond adaptation, 15 & 16 March 2010, Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila:

This report discusses what is expected to happen in the Philippines as climate change progresses, and what appropriate

This document features 10 tips which aim to ensure a secure behaviour and the improvement of a risk prevention culture amongst the population of Cameroon. Initially written for the International Day of the Prevention of Disasters in 2007 under the theme

This report presents an overview of what adaptation to climate change might mean for Eastern Europe and Cental Asia, in terms of vulnerability to a changing hydrology and more extreme droughts, floods, heat waves, windstorms, and forest fires, and in

Emergency preparedness, report to congressional requesters, GAO-10-193 January 29, 2010:

This document intends to review federal efforts to promote community preparedness. In this paper, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports on the

This book provides a theoretical analysis of the ethical foundations of the UNFCCC regime on adaptation funding, one that culminates in the definition of a framework of justice. The text features an interpretative analysis of the ethical contents of the

Commonwealth Secretariat discussion paper number 1:

This paper includes adaptation and sustainable forest management among a range of carbon finance issues that are being considered to address the problem of deforestation and forest degradation. In