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Displaying 15 of about 37 resultsGENEVA, 31 October 2012 - UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlstrom spoke to the opening session of this week's extraordinary session of the World Meteorological Congress which is discussing the implementation plan and governance model for the Global Framework for Climate Services.
Ms. Wahlstrom congratulated the World Meteorological Organization on the initiat…
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…
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Le plan ORSEC est un plan cadre gouvernemental, permettant d’organiser la réponse en cas de catastrophe de grande ampleur qui dépasse les moyens habituellement misent en place pour y répondre. Il permet d’appuyer le leadership du gouvernement sur l’organisation de cette réponse en clarifiant les rôles et responsabilités de chacun mais auss…
This plan is a sectoral policy document, jointly issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Agriculture in order to improve the capacity of grassland disaster prevention and mitigation, maintain the security of grassland ecology, and promote the sustainable and healthy development of society and the economy in pastoral…
This document presents disaster risks of China and major work on disaster reduction that has been done in the field of constructions and engineering, including monitoring and forecasting systems, disaster management and governance, and coordination and international cooperation. It describes main guiding policies, objectives, tasks and measurements of d…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Vietnam, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, land slide, wild fire, drought, insect infestation, tornado and cyclone. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk manageme…
This report shows how glacial retreat, natural disasters, disease, forest fires, and erratic weather patterns could devastate a country which has done little to cause the climate crisis. It also shows how Bolivian communities are fighting to adapt to a changing climate despite a lack of international support.
This DRR Tool Kit for Constituent Assembly members is produced jointly by the following organizations, with funding support of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department (through DIPECHO V partners–ActionAid with AusAID co-finance, Care Nepal, Handicap International, Mercy Corps, Practical Action and UNDP–BPCR South and South–West Asia), Oxfam…
A wildfire that started on Thursday is forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes in Southern California. "The connection between climate change and the frequency of wildfires is undeniable", states the author of the article published in Allvoices. By 2050, lands burned by wildfires every year will at least double, according to the US Forest Se…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Burkina Faso, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, wild fire, drought and insect infestation. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provides…
This study finds that 17 million people were newly displaced by sudden-onset disasters worldwide in 2009, and over 42 million people in 2010. To meet this challenge, the study recommends that greater collaboration is required between those working in the fields of humanitarian action, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and development. I…
By Alex Kirby
US farms could be devastated by climate change, says a study by the country’s Department of Agriculture. It says farmers could lose millions of dollars to rising temperatures, faster-growing weeds, smaller yields and new pests.
LONDON, 7 February – Climate change may force American farmers to alter where they grow crops and to spend mill…
This book is intended to provide an overview of the concept of ecosystem approach to disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR), natural resource management and disaster linkages, incorporating Eco-DRR concepts in various phases of disaster management, including post disaster recovery in wide range of human and natural environmental settings. The case studies co…
“What we’re seeing is a window into what global warming really looks like,” said Michael Oppenheimer, a geoscientist at Princeton University. “It looks like heat. It looks like fires. It looks like this type of environmental disaster,” reports Alertnet. It is the elderly, the very young and the ill people that are the most vulnerable to the high tempera…
GENEVA, 22 May 2013 - The inventor of the world's first interactive digital globe that graphically depicts the vulnerability of our planet to disasters today challenged global policymakers to show more leadership in tackling the growing risks facing populations worldwide.
"What is important is not the technology but our vision for the future of the pla…