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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

Indonesia rising - Policy priorities for 2010 and beyond:

This brief addresses the vulnerability to multiple climate change hazards, such as more intense rainfall and sea-level rise, of economically productive areas and their adverse effects on food

This annual survey on weather and climate change provides evidence that the period, 2000–2009, was the warmest decade on record, since the beginning of modern instrumental measurements around 1850, and reports on a number of extreme weather and climate

A new study in ZSL's Journal of Zoology suggests that common toads can detect impending seismic activity and modify their behaviour from breeding to evacuation mode...

New legislation effective 1 April 2010, will oblige Chinese authorities to develop emergency response plans and draw up preventative measures for severe weather disasters to reduce the loss of lives, reports Chinaview...

Some countries have begun turning displacement into a positive learning experience by providing such migrants with temporary work permits to help them earn an income and acquire skills, making them more resilient when they return home...