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This paper advocates for decisions to be made and programmes designed in order to strengthen a community’s capacity to cope with the impact of disasters and to reduce their vulnerability to future hazards and shocks during the early stages of an emergency response after a disaster strikes. It emphasizes awareness of the importance of earth…
This manual provides basic understanding and describes implementation arrangements required for flood preparedness planning. It is expected to be beneficial, in particular, to the countries of the Lower Mekong Basin and can also be adapted to incorporate the needs and situation of other countries in the region, including Thailand.
It was developed base…
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This document reports on the conference convened in Jeju, Republic of Korea, on 3-6 December 2008, aimed at discussing and exchanging information and experiences on the following issues: (i) awareness of the impacts of climate change in island and coastal ecosystems; (ii) climate change research, adaptation and mitigation, and the use of…
In response to the growing magnitude of climate change, this fact sheet outlines IFAD’s efforts to streamline climate change adaptation and mitigation into its programmes. It calls to listen to the voices of poor rural people in order to reduce the risks of climate change while accelerating progress towards a world without poverty.
It further describes…
This paper features a case study on the understanding of the projected impact of global warming on the occurrence of extreme weather events, and adjusting disaster management programs accordingly. It aims to contribute to safer communities for people living in disaster prone areas.
This book addresses disaster preparedness in developing countries as an important contribution to climate change adaptation, asserting that tropical storms and other weather-related extreme events like heavy rainfall and landslides will increase further. It aims to support developing countries, who are expected to suffer more from the consequences of cl…
SUD-Net Workshop, 17‐19 February 2009, Cape Town:
This report summarizes the presentations and discussions held at the SUD-Net Africa workshop which mainly focused on education for sustainable urban development and addressed the huge climate change adaptation needs and a lack of educated urban specialists in Africa.
The overall purpose of the worksho…
This report promotes the mainstreaming and integration of climate risk adaptation into India's development policies and processes, where appropriate. It focuses on vulnerabilities in natural resources and rural livelihoods, which stand at the front line of climate change impacts.
The approach was dictated by government priorities, which indicated the n…
This document offers a general overview of the 'natural' sudden climate disasters status in the Arab region (with case studies from several countries under consideration), and provides linkage between disaster reduction and natural resources management, land-use planning, climate change adaptation and environmental protection.
It is intended to be used…
Addressing sustainable eco-development in a Malaysian area, this publication suggests collective actions on environmental, economic and social issues and policy tools to strengthen the capacity for institutional development, such as enhancing the adaptive capacity to disaster resilience. It takes a look forward, aiming to avoid rapid economic growth lea…
The Disaster Management Center (DMC) in collaboration with United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and with the technical support of the Department of Agrarian Development has commenced a project for the development of the small tank (Cascade) system for reducing the effect of drought in North Western Province as a model.
It is based on the Madawachc…
A national seminar was held in Hanoi today to discuss disaster risk management. The seminar was organized by the Vietnam Red Cross which has carried out risk evaluation in more than 300 villages around Vietnam to help communities minimize damage caused by natural hazards.
La Trinidad, Benguet -- Indigenous best practices of two provinces in the Cordillera region on the adaptation to climate change will be showcased as models of a foreign-funded program on climate change adaptation.
The program dubbed, "Strengthening the Philippines' Institutional Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change (SPICACC)," is a joint undertaking of…
According to Chris Hartnady, a former associate professor at the University of Cape Town, 'Large areas of the African Continent are in an unstable, tectonically active state and, especially in the mountain regions, substantial danger is posed to growing populations'.
Considering the experience and lessons learned from Haiti and applying it to the East…
Nations across the world must increase their efforts, both on an individual basis and collectively, to combat the rising number of natural disasters which annually cause thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in material damage, according to JICA Senior Vice-President Kenzo Oshima.
Oshima delivered an opening remarks Sunday (January 17) to the As…