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Displaying 105 of about 541 resultsLima - La Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros (PCM), a través de la Secretaria de Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres, viene desarrollando talleres macrorregionales de difusión del Programa Presupuestal N° 068 ‘Reducción de Vulnerabilidad y atención de emergencias por desastres’, dirigido a las municipalidades distritales y provinciales del país.
El objet…
By Tyrone Hall, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre
The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (5Cs) launches a ground-breaking tool for climate risk assessment in decision-making, at an event in Saint Lucia today. The event, which will be attended by Saint Lucia Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony, together with permanent secretaries from minist…
By Megan Rowling
London - Alhaji Gimba Suleiman, a 72-year-old rice farmer from Ozahi in Nigeria's south-central Kogi State, lost his house in the huge floods that displaced 2 million people and affected a total of more than 7.7 million in the West African nation last year.
He's still living in temporary accommodation 15 km away, going back each day t…
This paper addresses the gain the Philippine scientific community can get from the positive, constructive use of precedents, models, patterns and trends. It highlights the Global Scale Wave Model (GSWM), put up by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to provide a better understanding and forward perspectives on hydrologic movements around…
This report analyses USACE Inspection of Completed Works (ICW) program and FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), both concerned with life safety, reduction of property damage due to floods and communicating flood hazards and risks. It provides recommendations: (i) for aligning agency processes so information collected for either programs can be…
This research article addresses the debate on the need for broad geography education about natural hazards in the schooling period. It points out the necessity to develop the ability to understand and recognize the hazard and the attitude which allows to take responsible decisions prior to, in the face of and following an extreme natural event. The arti…
This manual is intended to provide methodological and practical guidance to ACF field workers on how to implement Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Assessment (PCVA) so as to design and initiate stand-alone or mainstreamed DRM actions at the community level. The guiding questions of the manual serve to examine the factors of risk and vulnerabilit…
This document discusses the importance of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and the Hyogo Framework for Action to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS). The document explains the two-tier DRR work plan which aims to better facilitate the alignment of the activities of WMO constituent bod…
The paper aims at supporting decision makers and adaptation practitioners in understanding the challenges of assessing loss and damage and providing an overview and analysis of some of the key existing methods and tools that can be employed. The paper assesses 18 selected approaches, methods and tools in terms of their data and information requirements,…
This report was conducted in fulfillment of Malta's requirement under article 4 of the European Floods Directive which requires all Member States to undertake a Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment (PFRA) for each river basin district, unit of management of the portion of an international river basin district, or unit of management lying within their terri…
This report focuses on the issue of European flood regulation, including issues related to mandatory flood risks assessments, flood risk maps, flood risk management plans, the involvement of the public and stakeholders, the science-policy interface, and uncertainties related to climate change. The report identifies the challenges and knowledge gaps reg…
This report proposes a National Assessment Framework that governments, businesses and communities can use to assess national progress in adapting to the impacts of climate change and to set national indicators.
The report is composed of six sections: (i) section one introduces climate change adaptation and explains the importance of addressing climate…
This report presents the results of an adaptation research project conducted in three frames: (i) science, (ii) risk, environmental change and adaptation, and (ii) social sustainability, with the Arabana people of South Australia. It reviews the challenges posed by climate change and assesses the ability of the Arabana to adapt to meet those challenges…
This report seeks to raise awareness and understanding of the variety of adaptation-related bodies, programmes and workstreams under the Convention and how they contribute jointly to enhanced action on adaptation. It is structured as follows: section II provides some background on the adaptation challenge; section III elaborates on the evolution of adap…
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Très accessible, cet ouvrage est illustré de nombreuses cartes et photographies et se propose de faire découvrir de nombreux volcans "extrêmes" par fiches de 4 et 6 pages et par une approche à la fois scientifique, géographique et historique. Cette présentation sera précédée d'une introduction générale à la volcanologie et suivie d'un lexiqu…