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Displaying 15 of about 1012 resultsThis Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Educational Kit (NDRR) in Arabic has been developed with the view to enhancing the coping capabilities of disaster prone communities in the Arab States region as well as the dissemination of the technical knowledge in natural disaster reduction to build the capacities of educational institutions, students, and teache…
The TWG Teacher's Guide to Earthquake Education is designed to promote earthquake awareness to teachers, students, and school administrators. The guide includes six science activities describing physical processes related to earthquakes, five activities on earthquake hazards and mitigation strategies, and a codification art/literacy project.
A declaration of the ministers and high-level authorities responsible for the sustainable development of the Americas, adopted during the eighth plenary session held on November 19, 2010, which considers the links between vulnerability, poverty, inequity, environmental degradation, and disasters, as well as the need to incorporate comprehensive disaster…
This declaration was made by the Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation and signed by the Governments of Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands at the 11th Trilateral Governmental Conference on the Protection of the Wadden Sea on 18 March 2010.
A declaration made by the Mekong River Commission (MRC) including heads of the Governments of the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Kingdom of Thailand, and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, at the First Summit of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) in Hua Hin, Thailand, on the occasion of its 15th Anniversary.
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…
This paper presents IOM’s efforts to support vulnerable and mobile communities affected by environmental hazards through disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) activities conducive to sustainable development. The paper advocates for further strengthening DRR and CCA mechanisms at the global, regional, national and local levels…
Arab Climate Resilience Initiative (ACRI) working paper:
This report aims to identify and assess some of the main vulnerable areas to sea level rise in the Arab world. A survey of a country by country case studies, based on initial national communications and second national communication as well as recent published literature is also presented. The m…
This book addresses a wide range of environmental concerns within the context of sustainability and their influence on the future of Hawaii. It traces land-use practices before and after the arrival of Westerners and the increased tempo of destruction following the latter. It also discusses volcanoes and the risk of placing homes in locations vulnerable…
This document addresses the increasing vulnerability in the Arctic Ocean, the growing stress of climate change for environment and peoples, and the further pressures created by industrial infrastructure and shipping, as well as the risks threatening them such as extreme weather events and mobile free-floating ice. It points out to the lack of knowledge…
This document seeks to reinforce the scientific, mitigation and adaptation capacities of countries and communities that are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. It brings together expertise and ongoing work in diverse areas ranging from science and technology to agriculture, transport, forestry and disaster risk reduction, to address both m…
This document assesses the progress made since the environment and health process began 20 years ago. It discusses how to move the environment and health process forward in Europe, and sums up some intents with the Parma Declaration, which included a commitments to not only preventing environmental risks and diseases but also tackling emerging issues su…
This report offers an assessment of the extent to which the EU-Budget is currently contributing to tackling the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and resource overconsumption. It considers resilience to fire and floods and other natural hazards as well as ecosystem resilience in the face of climate change as part of the most important publ…
This document is the World Bank’s operational response to climate variability and change on the continent. It is based on the premise that increased climate variability threatens the development gains of African countries, and that these effects need to be anticipated so that development efforts can be made more resilient to climate change. It identifie…
Environmental economic series, paper number 120:
This paper considers the connection between climate, biodiversity and ecosystem services. It measures the impact of climate change on human well-being by the change in ecosystem services, which includes storm buffering, erosion control, flood control and so on, caused by climate-related change in biodiv…