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Displaying 45 of about 45 results… emissions and increasing resilience to floods and extreme heat. A pilot project of urban horticulture in three public …
This publication is an assessment tool about disaster resilient and responsive public financial management. The Disaster Resilient and Responsive Public Financial Management (DRR-PFM) Assessment is designed to help countries strengthen the capability of their Public Financial Management (PFM) systems to prepare for, respond to, and recover from dis…
… What Has Been the Impact of COVID-19 on Debt? Turning a Wave into a Tsunami. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper … increase has been in electrified transport and electrified heat, with smaller investments in nuclear energy and, most … Electri�ed transport Electri�ed heat Nuclear Energy storage Sustainable materials Hydrogen …
The State of Finance for Nature in the G20 report attempts to capture the complete amount and future need for G20 country spending on nature-based solutions assets and activities. It reveals that current G20 investments in nature-based solutions are insufficient, at USD 120 billion/year, and G20 Official Development Assistance and private sect…
In view of recovery of the livelihood and equitable regional development as well as the anticipated disasters due to flood and mudflow, the Government of the Philippines (GOP) requested a technical assistance to the Government of Japan (GOJ) to conduct a master plan formulation and feasibility study (the study) for sabo and flood control in the western…
… 2017, 2018). This paper summarizes Google Trends’ search heat of DT over the past decade, as shown in Fig. 2. The …
… percent of the seedlings planted survived the dry season heat and lahar flow in 1992. There were 48 farmers' …
The catastrophic 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines inflicted severe damages to agriculture. It blanketed the landscape with a thick layer of unconsolidated silica-rich tephra. The remobilization of this material by rain produced debris flows (or lahars) that flooded and buried the lowland soils. Nearly three decades after this catastrophi…
… over longer hurricane seasons,1 hotter and more frequent heat waves, an increase in storms that bring flooding rains, …
… of the population and mitigate the risks of a second wave of infection by focusing on essential health services, …
… for the base flood elevation, including storm surge and wave impacts of coastal flood hazards, which serves as a …
… remain on limited schedules. For example, due to extreme heat, schools without functioning air-conditioning systems …
… storm, flood, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, …
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contracted with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for the preparation of a comprehensive Recovery Action Plan (RAP). The RAP evaluates methods for controlling the sedimentation within eight river basins and the higher risk of flooding due to sediment-clogged drainage channels resulting from th…
… of the last century. But more recently there had been a wave of optimism for the potential revival of Puerto Rico’s …