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Displaying 15 of about 682 resultsThe Netherlands designed climate change profiles to help integrate climate actions into development cooperation policies and activities. The profiles aim to give insight in climate change effects and impacts; the policies, priorities and commitments of the countries concerned; and key climate-relevant activities that are financed with international assi…
The Netherlands designed climate change profiles to help integrate climate actions into development cooperation policies and activities. The profiles aim to give insight in climate change effects and impacts; the policies, priorities and commitments of the countries concerned; and key climate-relevant activities that are financed with international assi…
This paper presents a framework for reducing wildfire risk at its actual landscape scale. The framework is based on a scientific breakthrough: a new planning tool that gives the wildland fire community the ability to manage fire risk across broad landscapes. Working together through shared stewardship, stakeholders can make cross-boundary investments to…
The 2018 World Disasters Report asks challenging questions of affected states, admittedly overburdened donors, and local and international humanitarian organizations. It includes a strong call for more, for better and for more equitable, funding and action to meet the rising needs. It also calls for a more conscious and transparent approach to ensuring…
This report summarizes the outcomes of the second Nansen Initiative Regional Consultation that took place from 2-4 December 2013 in San Jose, Costa Rica: “Disasters and Cross-Border Displacement in Central America: Emerging Needs, New Responses.”
The overall objective of the Central American Consultation was to identify specific challenges facing the C…
This report summarizes the outcomes and technical discussions of the third Nansen Initiative Regional Consultation that was hosted by the Government of Kenya from 21 – 23 May 2014 in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss “Natural Hazards, Climate Change, and Cross-Border Displacement in the Greater Horn of Africa: Protecting people on the move.”
The overall o…
This report summarizes the outcomes of the fourth Nansen Initiative Regional Consultation, which was hosted by the Government of the Philippines in Manila from 15 – 17 October 2014 to discuss “Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in Southeast Asia.”
The overall objectives of the Nansen Initiative Southeast Asian Regional Consul…
This report summarizes the outcomes and technical discussions of the first Nansen Initiative Regional Consultation that took place from 21–24 May 2013 on Rarotonga, Cook Islands: “Human Mobility, Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Pacific”.
The overall objective of the Pacific Consultation was to identify specific challenges facing t…
This publication is part of a multi-partner project whose overall aim is to address a legal gap regarding cross-border displacement in the context of disasters. The project seeks to:
increase the understanding of states and relevant actors in the international community about displacement related to disasters and climate change;
equip them…
This publication describes the principles of flood and environmental risk management, and presents the challenges of integrating the system into policy making and project planning in the People’s Republic of China. Flood and environmental risk management is a new concept that recognizes the connection between managing flood risk and managing risks to th…
Flooding is a challenge of financial and social concern affecting a growing sector of the Canadian population. Multiple factors affect flood risk, such as a general increase in population density in urban and sub-urban centres, the loss of natural landscape impacting all provinces, growth in the impermeability of primarily city landscapes, all of which…
This study provides evidence that lowering the cost of accessing flood risk information increases public understanding of the risk of flood events. It exploits a pair of events to generate this conclusion: in July 2008, the Brisbane City Council released property level flood risk reports online, and, in 2011, Brisbane suffered a flood event.…
This paper looks at how community-based recovery initiatives in Turkey following the 1999 earthquakes have transformed into initiatives around larger issues of building resilience and risk reduction. It examines the nature of their relationships with the state and with each other. The research is based on a cross-case analysis of three civil society org…
Report of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs
This report contains the proceedings of the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs of the House of Commons of Canada's Parliament. It reports on the efforts of the Committee to study the response to and long-term impacts of wildfires in First Nation communities duri…
This case study explores how Iran mandated annual school eartquake drills and raised public awareness within and beyond schools in order to reduce injury and death during earthquakes. This case study is part of a series of case studies documenting how countries have been developing and implementing Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) policies that address…