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Displaying 5 of about 5 resultsThis book discusses the practical, political and moral challenges of linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor. It addresses emergent threats from epidemic disease, or the challenges of water scarcity in dryland India, as well as climate change, such as African far…
This DRR Tool Kit for Constituent Assembly members is produced jointly by the following organizations, with funding support of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department (through DIPECHO V partners–ActionAid with AusAID co-finance, Care Nepal, Handicap International, Mercy Corps, Practical Action and UNDP–BPCR South and South–West Asia), Oxfam…
Trimester report, period November 2009 – January 2010:
This report highlights the issues and progress in the execution of the Nepal Hazard Risk Assessment (NHRA) project. It summarises the activities carried out in terms of data collection, generation and preparation. It also reports on the workshops conducted on hazard assessment methodology for eart…
This report, produced by the Nepal Climate Vulnerability Study Team (NCVST), provides a scenario of climate change, adaptation options and vulnerability in Nepal. It aims to synthesise existing scientific and socio-economic information on the likely impacts of climate change in the Nepal Himalaya and to assess the complex patterns of vulnerability such…
This study presents a rapid disaster risk assessment carried out in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, to: (i) identify major hazards, assess vulnerabilities and analyze risks of future disasters, and (ii) recommend key mitigating measures to make prospective communities in Mutiara village resilient to disasters.
It reveals that earthquake, tsunami, flooding, inund…