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Displaying 52 of about 52 resultsThis document is introduced as a toolkit for the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction by the Parties to the UNECE conventions. In this document, UNECE commits to help United Nations Member States better implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction adopted in March 2015 in Japan and reports on its activities in…
Help for people facing humanitarian catastrophe could be a text message or mouse click away, thanks to software that has proved vital in humanitarian disasters such as the Haiti earthquake.
"Ushahidi" is Swahili for testimony and also the name of a website originally developed to map reports of violence and peace efforts following Kenya's 2008 election…
SHAPE-RISK: Sharing experience on risk management (health, safety and environment) to design future industrial systems
The present report represents the final deliverable of SHAPE-RISK WP6 and addresses the main mechanisms which are at the basis of the perception of risks, and the risk communication strategies and practices to establish public trust of…
This report presents the summary of the Forum 2008, an international conference which focused exclusively on the human impact of climate change and on boosting assistance to worst affected poor and vulnerable populations. It deals with the climate-humanitarian issue from the following angles:
- Justice
- Security
- Agriculture
- Risk Management and Ins…
As General Assembly holds thematic debate, Secretary-General urges governments to integrate disaster risk reduction into development agendas
Faced with socio-economic fallout from increasingly frequent and severe disasters, Governments must invest in disaster risk reduction and weave it into their development agendas in order to save more lives and bui…
A contribution to the preparations for the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II):
This document emphasizes the importance of urbanization for the level of risk of natural disasters and other phenomena, and highlights the need to address disaster management issues in the context of urban development planning. It analyses di…
By Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia
At the Planetary Security Conference, a meeting of hundreds of security and foreign policy experts and practitioners, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) and its partners the Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael)/the Planetary Security Initiative, the Fr…