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Displaying 15 of about 28 resultsIn order to enhance the capacity of professionals in developing countries to cope with 'natural' disasters, this document provides practitioners solution-oriented theoretical and engineering bases that can serve for planning and implementing flood management within the framework of integrated river basin management at all levels -- from nations to local…
This document presents the workplan for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) for the 2009-2011 period.
The chapter dedicated to the disasters presents the following programmes: Use of Satellites for Risk Management, Systematic Monitoring for Geohazards Risk Assessment, Multi-Risk Management and Regional Applications and Warning System…
This inception report, prepared at the request of the Government of Samoa includes a section on natural risk management in Samoa - expand the Coastal Infrastructure Management Plan (CIM) strategy to: (i) incorporate issues relating to climate change adaptation; and (ii) incorporate strategies for other types of hazards (e.g. flooding, landslips etc.) an…
This hanbook aims at being used as a tool to reduce urban risk in small and medium sized cities by local schools, students, teachers, parents, resident associations and local government members, by watching both good and bad (vulnerable) parts of their cities. Through collective watching and participatory mapping, it intends to facilitate the engagement…
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El Atlas ofrece una visión cartográfica integral de 9 fenómenos naturales (terremotos, maremotos, erupción de volcanes, deslizamientos, inundaciones, heladas, sequías y los Fenómenos de El Niño y la Niña), sus historiales de afectación, su potencial gravedad, las áreas de mayor predisposición a sufrir daños y el conjunto de centros poblados…
Study report prepared for the meeting of experts on space applications for disaster management, Chiang Mai, 25-28 July 2005:
Besides bringing out a set of recommendations on integrating space information products and services for disaster reduction strategies, the present study provides “a regional cooperative framework” and suggested modalities of reg…
IWMI research report 133:
This study reviews all previous known attempts to approach the issue of drought analysis at the global scale as well as attempts to map disaster risks, water scarcity, climate change and related subjects – either at a country level or at regular grid scales - in order to examines the global patterns and impacts of droughts.
Eighteenth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, 26-29 October 2009: E/CONF.100/IP.7:
This paper describes Australia’s progress in the areas of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the past 3-4 years, and reports on a number of ‘best practice’ activities in the Australia-Pacific region.…
This paper is a brief information update on the ongoing and recently accomplished projects/activities in disaster risk reduction/disaster management areas in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
This issue focuses on the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in disaster risk reduction. It contains articles from experts, interviews and other related information.
Contents: Interview: Professor Amanat Ullah Khan on ICT in disaster management; Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D); Earthquake vulnerable…
Report prepared for East & Southeast Asia regional seminar on flood hazard mapping, 17-19 Feb, 2009, Manila, Philippines:
This report on the current situations of Flood Hazard Map (FHM) development in Nepal addresses how to make and disseminate FHMs effectively in the country.
The purpose of this Plan is to summarize the essential steps to be undertaken, over the next decade (from 2005), by a global community of nations and intergovernmental, international, and regional organizations, to put in place a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). The vision for GEOSS is to realize a future wherein decisions and actions…
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Recopilación de Herramientas para la Gestión Local del Riesgo, realizada por el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para los Asentamientos Humanos, UN-Habitat con el apoyo del International Development Research Centre – IDRC (Canadá), en el marco del Proyecto Apoyo a las Autoridades Locales de Ciudades de América Central para la Gestión Local de…
Proceeding volume of the National Workshop, 30 September-01 October 2008, New Delhi:
This document on chemical disaster management contains detailed descriptive lectures, talks of holistic disaster management (DM) framework, integration of chemical risk to holisitc and multi-hazard risk management, site assessment, legal framework, district level DM pl…
Social development papers, social dimensions of climate change, no. 116:
This paper presents the research and learning approach of a World Bank study and offers emerging findings on policy and institutional questions surrounding adaptation arenas in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Mozambique.
The paper outlines the methodological approach of…