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Cambodia’s agriculture remains a backbone for the livelihoods of four million Cambodians who depend on the sector. However, the dependence on rain-fed agriculture and reliance on a single rice cropping cycle makes this important sector extremely vulnerable to any changes in rainfall patterns and longer term changes in the climate. The imp…
One international human settlements and climate change expert (IE) (home based) and one international spatial planning expert (Viet Nam and home based)
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Viet Nam is one of the countries most affected by climate change, affecting many sectors and regions, and presenting a challenge to human development. Effects such as sea level rise and assoc…
The United States drought monitor forum will discuss the following topics:
Moving from crisis to drought risk management: Motivating the international community
United States drought monitor process and procedures
State and regional perspectives to drought monitoring
International partners and perspectives
Drought impacts as experie…
The 11th annual climate prediction applications science workshop (CPASW) will convene in Logan, Utah, and focus on “Climate Information for Natural Resource Management.” This theme will integrate broad aspects of climate information applications in water, land, forest, wildlife, habitat, energy, and other natural resources management. Climate is a cross…
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Le développement territorial est subordonné à une gestion durable et partagée de l’eau et des milieux aquatiques. Or, le parcours de l’eau, des sources aux embouchures, recouvre des réalités locales multiples et complexes. Face aux enjeux d’eau potable et d’assainissement mais également d’aménagement du territoire, d’économie, de risque inond…
The objective of the conference is to provide the platform to a stimulating and findings to share their pioneering ideas and findings in the areas of engineering, business and disaster management. Also the conference provides the platform to a stimulating environment for reaserch and discussion on a contentious issues.
The overall goal of the symposium is to facilitate the exchange and updating of information on disaster risk reduction associated with climate variability and change. It will bring together key stakeholders that will, in part, integrate and forge linkages towards enhanced national capacity to reduce disaster risks.
Kenya is highly vulnerable and expose…
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The Salween-Mekong basin is one of China’s most climatically, ecologically, and ethnically diverse regions and the headwaters of many of China’s major river systems. The impacts of changes in water supply and climate vary greatly depending on elevation, environmental conditions, and the socioeconomic situation of rural inhabitants. Floods an…
The second Africa Drylands Week was held three years after the first one held in Dakar, Senegal in 2011. The participants reviewed successes as well as challenges facing drylands development, including sustainable land management and resilience to climate change related risks.
In particular, they reviewed the tremendous advances in land regeneration th…
The Resilience Academy
In the most vulnerable regions of our planet, the impact of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts and cyclones threaten lives and livelihoods. The most affected regions include large deltas, small islands and exposed coastal regions as well as arid and semiarid lands, and areas affected by glacier and permafrost melt. P…
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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…
With climate change there has been a corresponding increase in the incidence of ‘natural’ disasters. The following have been identified as the key disasters that are directly precipitated by climate change: drought, floods, landslides, cyclones and coastal erosion.
Lowering risks is an integral part of disaster management because this can save lives an…
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 special water edition of the WMO Bulletin draws attention to the programmes and activities of WMO in helping Member States and Territories to find solutions to the problems they face across the entire water resources value chain. The contents will provide the reader with an appreciation of the depth of commitment being made by WMO hydrological and…
El presente documento recoge el proceso metodológico desarrollado por el Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno (CIIFEN) de El Niño a través de 10 años de experiencia, el cual ha constituido la base para el análisis de los efectos del cambio climático en sistemas poblacionales, ambientales, etc., con el fin de permitir a los tomadores d…