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Este documento tuvo como base principal el análisis de la susceptibilidad física del territorio a procesos de degradación natural y antrópica (deforestación) que fue utilizado para la construcción del Mapa de Vulnerabilidad Física del Perú, elaborado por el Ministerio del Ambiente en coordinación y colaboración de los órganos adscritos al M…
This document reports on the Conservancy Adaptation Project (CAP) implemented in Guyana for adaptation to the flood threats posed by future climate change. The report presents ways of reducing the likelihood of catastrophic flooding along Guyana’s low-lying coastal areas, also threatened by sea level rise. The developed program of strategic intervention…
This document provides general principles and orientation for practitioners and policymakers involved in climate change adaptation programmes. As part of its corporate learning strategy on climate change adaptation, IFAD has analyzed case studies from Sudan, India, Rwanda, Mali and Swaziland to find out whether participatory mapping – used in combinatio…
This atlas uses evocative imagery and informative descriptions of prominent environmental change across 22 Arab countries over the last 50 years. While this atlas documents the commonalities shared by these nations, it also highlights the unique challenges each country faces in the 21st century. In a region already confronted by extreme climate, limited…
In Natural hazards and earth system sciences, 11, 2011, doi:10.5194/nhess-11-67-2011:
In response to the disastrous tsunami event on 26 December 2004 and to support the implementation of a reliable tsunami early warning system (TEWS) in the Indian Ocean, this paper explains the underlying concepts and applied methods and shows some of the results achie…
This report provides an overview of the hazard mapping resources and activities currently in existence in Cambodia, the main trends and potential focuses for the future. Through the study of a number of online resources and interviews with key organizations involved with hazard mapping activities, the report summarizes some of the major organizations cu…
Maplecroft’s Climate change and environmental risk atlas 2015 (CCERA) features 26 risk indices to provide comprehensive quantitative analysis of the key risks to business in the areas of climate change, resource security, ecosystem services, emissions and waste, and the regulatory environment. The CCERA helps organizations understanding the risks and op…
This guide explains the risks of tremors and what the UK government is doing to reduce the negative impact of hydraulic fracturing that may cause tremors, small scale earthquakes. The risk of tremors has introduced new controls and checks for operators using hydraulic fracturing, including use of all available geological information to assess the locati…
This paper presents data conducted in Mali in order to develop a flood mapping analysis aiming to provide a cognitive understanding of this phenomenon and to help the geographic prioritization of disaster risk reduction implementation efforts. The study allows to understand the two major types of floods: systematic floods caused by the flooding of the r…
This paper discuses the implementation of a green infrastructure concept in mitigating flood risk by utilizing the flood canals in Semarang City, Indonesia, as an example. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the opportunity of integration between green infrastructure and flood mitigation infrastructure through descriptive analysis and GIS bas…
This atlas is designed to help local policymakers and experts as well as readers outside the region, donors and the international community understand the basin’s natural resources, common needs and priorities and enhance cooperation efforts for, among others, disaster risk reduction. Economic development and natural resource management are top prioriti…
Research Report 2014/2:
This report provides information on the change in glacial extent over the past decade and quantitative data to support discussion of climate change impacts in the Nepal Himalayas. It presents a comprehensive account of the status of glaciers of Nepal in approximately 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010 based on a semi-automatic standardi…
Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 119, October 2014:
This issue focuses on the development of a successor to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), which was the seminal framework that guided the global response to the challenges of disaster risk reduction (DRR). Drawn for a period of 10 years (2005-2015), the HFA aimed to build the resilience of countri…
Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 116, August 2014:
This issue deals with the various aspects of disaster management. It contains articles that expound upon the various measures to manage the risk of natural hazards and reduce underlying vulnerabilities. The articles address diverse topics from the field of disaster risk reduction (DRR), ranging from th…
In Portuguese:
O Atlas Brasileiro de Desastres Naturais é um produto de pesquisa resultado do acordo de cooperação entre a Secretaria Nacional de Defesa Civil e o Centro Universitário de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Desastres da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. O levantamento dos registros históricos, derivando na elaboração dos mapas temáticos e n…