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Displaying 45 of about 1001 resultsA declaration by the Mayors and Local Government representatives together with National Government Officials emphasizing the importance of reducing disaster risk in Arab cities, in which the participants of the First Arab conference for disaster risk reduction recognize the vulnerability Arab cities and towns to disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes,…
Cette publication fournit un aperçu des chutes de neige, des hauteurs de neige, des risques d'avalanche et des événements entre 2017 et 2018 dans les Alpes suisses. Il fournit une analyse de situation mensuelle tout en couvrant les mois d'été. Une section est consacrée à l'activité volcanique qui s'est produite pendant deux jours en janvier.
L'analyse…
This document is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainable mountain development and will serve as a basis for evidence-based decision-making to safeguard the environment and advance people’s well-being.
The comp…
This report presents the initiatives being undertaken with the National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE) to strengthen the capacities of Himalayan States on conducting a vulnerability and risk assessment which is a vital input towards adaptation planning.These initiatives were undertaken with the involvement of the State Climate Ch…
The conference motto for IDRC Davos 2008 is: Public-private partnership – key for integral risk management and climate change adaptation.
IDRC Davos 2008 will address global problems and attract participants from all over the globe. We expect more than 1300 participants from 130 countries.
The conference will take an integrated, multidisciplinary appro…
Background
Climate change is rarely out of the news nowadays, and almost everyone seems to have an opinion about it. The scientific evidence for ongoing anthropogenic climate change is overwhelming, and impacts of changes over recent decades are already apparent in the Nordic region, with reduced sea ice, lengthening growing seasons and altered river f…
Participants will learn the Community Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) approach which builds people’s capacities to prevent and mitigate the impact of hazards of communities at risk. This is achieved by enhancing individual survivability and community readiness. Building resilient communities means strengthening the foundation of safety and enhan…
We are pleased to invite you to join us on 16-17 May for a UNFCCC technical expert meeting on Integrating climate change adaptation with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, taking place during the Bonn Climate Change Conference.
The two day meeting will allow participants to identify challenges and co…
The Herrenhausen Conference on November 27-29, 2017 is an interdisciplinary platform for developing risk reduction strategies for low-income communities threatened by natural hazards. "Dangerous Landscapes" is part of the Herrenhausen Conference Series initiated by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Program
Cluster 1: Towards a Deeper Understanding of…
Background
The ocean covers almost three-quarters of the Earth’s surface and by 2025 about 75 percent of the world’s population could be living within 100km of its coasts. While the total economic and social value of the ocean can never be fully or accurately estimated, humankind has an economic and social dependency on goods, services and uses provide…
Objective
The conference will review technical challenges faced by Member States, stakeholder organisations and scientists, while developing the first River Basin Management Plan under the Water Framework Directive (WFD). It will focus on aspects of integration, looking at the way cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary co-operation has developed, and h…
Background
Coastal Zone Canada 2010 will mark thirty two years since the first Canadian national conference on coastal management in Victoria in 1978, and it is an opportune time to assess how far we have come towards managing our oceans and coasts and where we are going in the future. Globally, there have been great advances in the state of ocean and…
Today, Africa faces major pressing issues: climate change impact, water scarcity, energy shortage, environmental stresses and food crisis, which affect citizens, business and the community at large. Efforts were made by African countries to work out strategies and policies coordinated in the fields of the environment and the sustainable development. On…
The IGC was first held in 1878, and the Oceania region has only hosted the event once in its prestigious history. High level political and scientific support secured in Australia and New Zealand for the Congress will underpin this outstanding event.
Under the theme “Unearthing our Past and Future” the IGC will showcase the Oceania region's geoscience s…
Coastal Dynamics 2009 will be the sixth in a sequence of technical speciality conferences. The theme of the conference is 'Impacts of human activity on dynamic coastal processes'.
Topics will include:
- Coastal hydrodynamics
- Coastal sediment transport
- Coastal morphodynamics
- Coastal hydro-meteorology (waves, currents, tides, tsunami, etc.)…