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Displaying 60 of about 489 resultsThis compendium of research papers is based disaster risk reduction and understanding the nature, occurrence, and severity of threats, underlying causes of vulnerabilities and capacity of the populace in South and Southeast Asia. It addresses the new focus of disaster risk reduction at present is on vulnerability reduction and building resilient communi…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Belarus, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, drought, wild fire and cyclone. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provides an evaluation of…
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 presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Turkey, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, earthquake,land slide, storm, wild fire and avalanche. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report pro…
This report examines the impacts on the built environment of increased intensities in weather-related natural hazard events, in order to identify the possibilities of using the regulatory mechanisms of building construction, housing insurance and planning in climate change adaptation. The research findings are restricted to these three aspects of the bu…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Palau, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, wild fire, cyclone, tsunami and earthquake. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provides an eva…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Nepal, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as land slide, wild fire, flood, epidemic and earthquake. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provides an…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Myanmar, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as wild fire, flood, cyclone and earthquake. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report provides an evaluation…
This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Greece, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as earthquakes, wild fire, drought, flood, land slide and heatwave. It outlines the strategies, plans, projects and activities related to disaster prevention and risk management.
The report…
This booklet reveals and explains the linkages between people and the environment in the Balkans. As part of the present risks intensified by climate warming, it considers forest fires, desertification, drought and heat waves, decreasing farming productivity, sea level rise impacts on coastal erosion and salt water intrusion, and floods; and addresses a…
This report presents Russia’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as earthquake, landslide, flood, storm, tsunami and wildfire, and describes the structure and functions of the National Committee of Russia on the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). It also sets out national perspectives, objectives and activities within the…
This report describes country’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as earthquake, tsunami, volcano, wildfire, landslide and flood, and presents governmental structures responsible for disaster management in Indonesia. It presents the major activities and accomplishments in disaster reduction during the International Decade for Natural Disaster Red…
This report describes country’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, earthquake, storm, drought and wildfire, and presents governmental and institutional structures responsible for disaster management in Mongolia.
The report discusses major activities and accomplishments in disaster reduction during the International Decade for Natural Di…
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Focused on four disaster-impacted communities in Australia - Beechworth, Bendigo, Ingham and Innisfail, this report makes recommendations for emergency management and local government policies. It presents a study that used Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological systems theory to analyse individual and, by proxy, community resilience t…
The importance of reducing exposure to disasters took on a personal hue for the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström.
The envoy had been due to present the Secretary-General's Report on the Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction to the UN General Assembly in the first w…