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This paper recommends ways in which Victoria, Australia’s land use planning and development controls can best support the government’s policy for managing the coastal impacts of climate change. Chapter 3 specifically addresses the current scientific

This document reports on main developments and highlights results obtained by the UNESCO Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Platform over the 2008-2009 biennium in its effort to reduce vulnerabilities – whether relating to disasters, climate change, or

This book examines the emerging environmental stresses on coastal areas of the Indian Ocean and the resulting challenges confronting coastal planners and decision makers in a warming world. It assesses the prospective risks to coastal ecosystems and

This paper explore three key issues that relate to the management of Antarctica in the context of climate change: (i) climate change mitigation; (ii) climate change adaptation, in terms of the management strategies that could limit the vulnerability of

This paper sets out what the European Union needs to deliver to achieve progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and addresses other pressing development challenges such as people’s vulnerability to disasters as well as adaptation

'[The governments] are engaged and they are committed to work on [disaster preparedness],' says Abu-Swaireh, UNISDR. 'But I wouldn’t say it’s in the top five priorities right now because of a very simple reason: We’ve been lucky in the last decade that we haven’t lived through a Haiti.'...
Egypt Today

This document on UNESCO’s effort in assisting Haiti after the 12 January 2010 earthquake addresses both relief and reconstruction. It seeks to bridge emergency activities to support longer-term, nationally owned development in education, tangible and

End of pilot project report, Orissa:

This report is the summary of a project implemented in Orissa, India which aims to carry out a resilience process at community level in order to bring local priorities and capacities of disaster prone vulnerable


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