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Displaying 60 of about 1016 resultsRio+20 Side Event: One of the themes of this Rio +20 side event will be Disaster Risk Reduction.
URBIPROOF project works toward enhancing the resilience of urban areas against future challenges by improving both institutional and societal capacities and encouraging sustainable urban development strategies. The final workshop of the project will particularly consider this context in terms of the role of spatial planning in the different phases of di…
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Premier volet de la stratégie du Conseil fédéral, version provisoire:
Cette stratégie fixe le cadre d’une démarche coordonnée au niveau fédéral pour l’adaptation aux changements climatiques. Elle doit permettre à la Suisse d’exploiter les opportunités offertes par les changements climatiques et de minimiser les risques qu’ils induisent, to…
LocationSantiago del ChileDegreeDiplomaDescriptionIn Spanish:
Por cuarto año consecutivo, el Diplomado es organizado por la Fundación Henry Dunant América Latina y el Instituto Internacional Henry Dunant. Su propósito es contribuir a un mejor conocimiento y comprensión de los principios, conceptos y alcances del Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Hu…
A 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,…
UN-Habitat’s urban resilience agenda covers three main work areas: knowledge, advocacy and technical cooperation. These three complementary work streams reinforce each other by combining practice on the ground, applied research, training and awareness raising work, among others.
The city resilience profiling programme (CRPP) is the technical coop…
This briefing aims to reconceptualise resilience with more emphasis on rights and justice for urban citizens, and less focus on infrastructure as the object to be made resilient. A justice orientation draws on theories that consider justice to include: the fair distribution of social and material advantages; meaningful participation in decision-making p…
The scale of urbanization in Asia today is unprecedented in urban history. Asia stands apart from other regions in terms of the absolute growth of the urban population as well as the number of densely populated megacities. Asia’s urban challenges are characterized by (i) increasing household consumption, (ii) rising demand for urban services, (iii) depl…
This report outlines the plan for building urban resilience in the city of Chicago, covering inclusive and socially cohesive communities, city infrastructure and preparedness for extreme weather events. Resilient Chicago seeks to address four principle challenges by creating a more connected city where residents, neighborhoods, institutions, corporation…
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…
"Building resiliency into critical infrastructures: International goals, national strategies, local actions"
Increased environmental and socio-technology threats challenge a nation’s abilities to mitigate and recover from major events. As we cope with the increased frequency, magnitude, and complexity of these events, it is essential that prior plannin…
This conference will share challenges, knowledge, good practices and experiences on building the resilience of Delta regions to floods and other hydro-meteorological disaster events, particularly in urbanised areas.
It will provide a platform to discuss the current challenges associated with flood and other hydro-meteorological disaster risk management…
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…
The Ninth U.S. National and Tenth Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering to be held in Toronto, Canada, in 2010 will provide an opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to share the latest knowledge and techniques for understanding and mitigating the effects of earthquakes. This is the first time that a conference of this scale is being…
This paper represents an understanding of urban resilience in relation to urban crises from the perspective of the members of the Global Alliance for Urban Crises (GAUC), all of which have different mandates, responsibilities and areas of focus. Constituencies span across civil society, local authorities, academia, and the built environment, as well as…