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Displaying 15 of about 92 resultsThis study aims to provide this global overview of urban drought risk by carrying out a global-scale analysis for 264 urban agglomerations. The goal is to find global patterns of drought risk as well as the underlying patterns of drought hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. The study will focus on hydrological droughts, which relates to deficits of stre…
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Premier volet de la stratégie du Conseil fédéral, version provisoire:
Cette stratégie fixe le cadre d’une démarche coordonnée au niveau fédéral pour l’adaptation aux changements climatiques. Elle doit permettre à la Suisse d’exploiter les opportunités offertes par les changements climatiques et de minimiser les risques qu’ils induisent, to…
A declaration by the Mayors and Local Government representatives together with National Government Officials emphasizing the importance of reducing disaster risk in Arab cities, in which the participants of the First Arab conference for disaster risk reduction recognize the vulnerability Arab cities and towns to disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes,…
This report contains ideas and case studies from around the world that showcase best practices in sustainable design for arid cities. At the heart of the report sit three key recommendations to shape the next century of city building in arid regions:
Learning from the past. Build upon locally adapted climate-specific design solutions.
Invest in gree…
This paper examines current policies to combat drought in urban areas in the United States to illuminate lessons learned for building climate adaptive capacity. The authors conducted interviews with practitioners involved in drought management at urban water utilities across the U.S. to understand 1) short- and long-term actions taken in response to dro…
In the past decade, climate change has brought record-breaking heat, flooding, drought, and forest fires to central Chile. And the problems are only getting worse—especially when it comes to water. Extreme heat coupled with declining precipitation rates in the past two decades have resulted in a chronic water deficit in the Metropolitan Region (MR). By…
Cities and the communities who live in them are significantly impacted by climate shifts in both means and extremes. These are already affecting the New York metropolitan region and will increasingly do so in the coming decades. This New York City Panel on Climate Change 2019 Report (NPCC3) provides co‐generated tools and methods for implementing r…
This book provides a great overview of practical and early examples of actual adaptive actions already taking place across Europe. It provides detailed information on each identified measure: to which sector it belongs, (i.e. water safety, agriculture, cities), specific climate effects adapted to, length of the project and costs and benefits, including…
A glance at urban interventions by Red Cross Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean:
This publication was developed in an effort to complement and inform the internal process of defining urban intervention strategies in the Americas in order to manage urban risk related to health and sanitation; food security and nutrition; road safety; social, e…
This publication discusses several cases of collaborations between various stakeholders to achieve resilience to disaster risk. In fact it explains how collaboration among business, government and NGOs could be the key to living with turbulence and change in the 21st Century These collaborations combine the capacities, talents, reach and resou…
The paper reviews the multiple climate change-urban linkages, disaggregating them into various key components through a generic ‘urban risk framework’. The paper further contextualises this framework in the context of a fast-growing city, Bangalore, in a semi-arid ecosystem to demonstrate the range of risks and vulnerabilities that are bo…
Science and Policy Knowledge Series, Advisory Note, December 2015:
This publication notes that El Niño will likely continue to cause significant drought during the period from November 2015 to April 2016, spanning southern parts of Sumatra, Java and eastern parts of Indonesia, central and southern parts of the Philippines and Timor-Leste. Most parts of…
This city profile of Metro Manila, the capital of the Philippines, assesses the current level of climate disaster resilience under the Climate and Disaster Resilience Initiative (CDRI) using a survey among planning officers of the Metro Manila - one of the largest urban agglomerations in the world with its 16 cities and 1 municipality.
It highlights t…
Objectives and purpose of the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security
Understanding the causes of vulnerability is a prerequisite for ensuring human security and decreasing human vulnerability, but it is not enough. The complexity of the factors that determine vulnerability and the ability to cope with extreme natural for…
This summary report (D2.1) highlights the specific climate vulnerabilities, sensitivities and risk management practices of the stakeholders involved in the IMPREX Work Packages 7-12. These work packages include:
Flood inundation prediction and risk assessments
Hydropower
Transport
Urban water
Agriculture and droughts
(transnational) Water e…