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Displaying 15 of about 86 resultsThese 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 report outlines status and trends of high mountain glaciers in relation to climate change, identifies challenges and knowledge gaps, and finally makes recommendations for adaptation, research and policy. It calls for accelerating research, monitoring and modelling of glaciers, snow and their role in water supplies; and highlights the vulnerability…
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 policy brief is a summary of IRGC's report on risk governance deficits, which identifies and describes a number of common and recurring deficits in risk governance processes and structures, including the ones related to preparation for and response to disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. The policy brief includes added recommendations and aims to m…
This book aims to explain to governments, decision makers and disaster professionals the potential uses of geoinformation technologies for reducing disaster risks and losses, based on the knowledge and experience of experts in these fields. It covers all regions of the world and all aspects of disaster risk and its management. Disasters in China, German…
This document reports on the sixth session meeting held in Istanbul, Turkey in 2009, which reviewed the progress of the four Working Groups achieved during the intersessional period and the tasks assigned to them in the Implementation Plan on: (i) hazard Assessment and modelling; (ii) seismic and geophysical measurements; (iii) sea level data collection…
Analysis from the East-West Center, no. 96:
This paper addresses Asia's coastal megacities increasing vulnerability to flooding disasters resulting from the combined effects of climate change (manifested as sea level rise, intensified storms, and storm surges), land subsidence and rapid urban growth. It recognizes the urgent need in all these cities:…
This point-by-point report of the UN Secretary-General on the implementation of the Millennium Declaration encompasses natural disasters in the "other priorities for global action". It calls for more determined efforts to address the loss of lives, livelihoods and infrastructure in order to avoid disasters to become an increasingly serious obstacle to t…
FCCC/CP/2010/2:
This document presents a set of draft decisions containing the outcome of the ad hoc working group on long-term cooperative action (AWG-LCA) work for consideration and adoption at the COP at its sixteenth session, including an enhanced action on adaptation, which calls on the Parties to enhance "climate change related disaster risk red…
Towards a regional platform for their financial and institutional sustainability:
This report describes the background for the flood early warning systems (Flood EWS) in the Central American Isthmus and the Dominican Republic, commenced in 1995, and highlights the need for a harmonized methodology for designing and implementing the systems. It reco…
This booklet outlines public knowledge, natural warnings and evacuation strategies that helped people live through fast-arriving tsunamis threatening coastal areas near tsunami sources - most of which are on the Pacific Rim, beside parts of the Indian Ocean, in the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas, and on volcanic islands. It draws public-safety lessons…
Abridged final report with resolutions and recommendations:
This document highlights some of WMO’s key accomplishments related to (i) climate services and to (ii) high impact weather forecasting, service delivery and disaster risk reduction (DRR). As part of agenda item 8.2, IOC addresses DRR through marine multi-hazards warning systems and makes som…
This case study addresses the need to increase the ability to anticipate and prepare for changing climate risks – not only in the coming decades, but also in the next days, weeks, months, and years – in order to cope with and adapt to the impacts of climate change. It presents strategies for addressing increasing climate risks, such as the 'Early Warnin…
This 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…
This working paper examines alternatives to large-scale multilateral agreements, evaluates financing and monitoring structures, and recommends smaller and more varied negotiating venues prior to the winter 2010 Cancun meeting. It calls for the international community to finance adaptation efforts to help developing countries adjust to the already changi…