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These guidelines are oriented to the needs of the decision-maker and provide a description of the range of mitigation options that need to
be considered when making efforts to reduce losses from flooding. The guidelines are designed to provide an
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations - Headquarters
This publication examines the role of (water) law in the context of Integrated Flood Management. The result is a panoramic study of the necessary interfaces in this subject area, with a view to identifying best practices that might be studied in more
Global Water Partnership
Associated Programme on Flood Management
Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science
World Meteorological Organization
This paper is an attempt to involve stakeholders and civil society in decision-making with regard to policy, planning and implementation direction in flood management issues and lays down a framework for a rational approach. It introduces the elements of
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
Global Water Partnership
Associated Programme on Flood Management
World Meteorological Organization
Integrated Flood Management (IFM) addresses issues of human security and sustainable development from a perspective of flood management, within the framework of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Some of the underlying causes that make it
This guide considers the disastrous effects of crises on employment
and poverty; as well as the capacity of crisis-affected people, men and
women, to overcome their devastating effects and ensure return to decent life.
This publication is part of ongoing efforts facilitated by the UNISDR secretariat to build a global partnership for mainstreaming gender issues into the disaster risk reduction process. Such efforts have become urgent
Toward the end of the twentieth century, it became evident to professionals working within the meterological arena that the world’s climate system was showing signs of change that could not be adequately explained in terms of natural variation. Since that
World Meteorological Organization
Cambridge University Press