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In the simplest terms, a stress test helps individuals and institutions mitigate risk and make better decisions by playing out big economic shocks to ensure they have what it takes to weather the storm.
Working with partners across the main flood-affected countries in Europe and other areas of the world, the UNU Climate Resilience Initiative aims to share knowledge, shape policy, and drive action to better prepare for future extreme weather events.
Examining the impact area of different forms of disasters, they all expand or limit primarily within the boundary of watersheds, sub-watershed, or the catchment. Water remains at the core of both watersheds and disaster risk reduction.
Even in its current state of pandemic-induced isolation, North Korea continues to engage the international community on climate adaption and disaster risk reduction.
The Planning Guide provides the rehabilitation and recovery framework, the rehabilitation planning process and plan structure, institutional arrangements for plan coordination, implementation mechanisms, and proposed monitoring and evaluation arrangements.
World Bank, the
National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Council
Department of National Defense
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the
Japan - government
This study examines Southern West Africa (SWA), an example of “late-stage” deforestation, ongoing since 1900 within a 300-km coastal belt. Deforestation affects local and regional hydroclimate through changes in heating and moistening of the atmosphere.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
This paper assesses impacts of Sea level rise (SLR) on flood risks in the Rhine-Meuse Delta in the Netherlands in case the current protection strategy is continued and explores two alternative protection strategies.
