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Displaying 11 of about 11 resultsThe project Sheltering From a Gathering Storm has generated information on the costs and benefits of climate resilient shelter designs. This information is purposed to contribute to transformative changes necessary to make communities more resilient to future disasters.
Using cost-benefit analysis, this applied research project has produced outpu…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
Ministère de l'Ecologie, du Développement Durable, de Transports et du Logement - communiqué de presse
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, ministre de l’Écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement, a présenté aujourd’hui, en présence de Jean JOUZEL, Vice-Président du Groupe d’Experts Intergouvernemental sur l’Evolution du Climat (GIEC), l…
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Webinar Series 2021
Analysis to resilience: science to support decision-making in a warming world.
Webinar 1: Wednesday 13th October 2021, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
The warming world. Implications of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report for Australia.
Prof. Andy Pitman, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
Webinar 2: Wednesday 20th October 2021, 2:00…
13 October 2016, GENEVA –The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, today marked International Day for Disaster Reduction by recognising five outstanding examples of successful efforts to reduce disaster mortality.
Today marks the beginning of the “Sendai Seven Campaign: Seven Targets, Seven Years…
Conference themes:
- Regional launch of the Making Cities Resilient: 'My city is getting ready' world disaster reduction campaign and the 1 Million safe schools and hospitals initiative - make a pledge, save a life.
- Current initiatives/activities on promoting school and hospital safety in ECO region - Reports by the relevant agencies/institutions:…
Geneva (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) - Experts in disaster risk reduction today urged that science and technology be applied more effectively to disaster management policy and practice.
Their discussions, organized by the UNISDR Scientific and Technical Advisory Group, were part of the fourth session of the Global Platform for Dis…
New York City Panel on Climate Change 2010 report, volume 1196:
This volume is a study on climate change and its impact, as well as a legal, insurance, and risk management expertise. It presents the report of the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), which goal is to contribute to an effective, ongoing, and beneficial process for responding t…
Adaptation as important as cutting emissions: Report publication - Adapting to climate change
Chair of the Committee available for interview / Contact: Nicholas Davies +44 1(0)7917488141
Adapting to climate change needs to become as much of a priority as cutting emissions, MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee argue in a report out today. Climat…
The 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) project is dedicated to helping cities around the world become more resilience to the physical, social and economic challenges that are a growing part of the 21st Century. The 100RC definition of resilience includes not just the shocks but also the stresses that weaken the fabric of a city on a day to day or cyclical bas…
By Trivess Moore, Lecturer, RMIT University; Aimee Ambrose, Reader in Energy Policy, Sheffield Hallam University; Graeme Sherriff, Research Fellow in Urban Studies, University of Salford; and Stephen Berry, Research fellow, University of South Australia
Summer in Australia seems to bite harder each year. Adelaide set a record maximum temperature f…