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Displaying 105 of about 1016 resultsThis document introduces some activities Sendai City is carrying out to build a 'Disaster-Resilient and Environmentally-Friendly City', which will help the city to be prepared for future disasters and climate change. This strategy is guided by 3 key pillars: i) urban development; ii) human capacity building; and iii) sending out information and establis…
Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 114, July 2014:
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the theme of urban risk and resilience. Its articles provide an overview of the best practices and interventions apropos urban resilience with special focus on Asia in the context of the HFA2 process. This document includes the following content:
(i) The i…
This document proposes a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs) for consideration and appropriate action by the General Assembly at its 68th session. It contains several targets related to disaster risk reduction in: proposed goal 1, 'End poverty in all its forms everywhere'; Proposed goal 2, 'End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutritio…
This study provides a quantitative and comprehensive view of water security in the countries of Asia and the Pacific. By focusing on critical water issues, it provides finance and planning leaders with recommendations on policy actions to improve water governance and guidance on investments to increase their country's water security. The authors stress…
This edition focuses on the accomplishments in strengthening the ability of 27 remote Guatemalan communities to prepare for and respond to disasters. Among its many accomplishments, the program has facilitated the creation of a dedicated office to manage all facets of municipal risk management. The committed and trained staff members serve as liaisons t…
Digital and urban frontiers: girls in a changing landscape:
This book addresses cities and cyberspace as rapidly growing areas where girls will be at risk but where opportunities abound. It focuses on adolescent girls – girls who are at a particularly vulnerable age and who need to be able to develop the skills to protect themselves, to negotiate thes…
Cahier des changements climatiques, édition spéciale, Octobre 2010 (in French):
Ce numéro vise à sensibiliser le public urbain sahélien sur les risques liés aux changements climatiques. Il prend en compte les lourdes conséquences des événements climatiques extrêmes (inondations et vagues de chaleur notamment) intervenus dans plusieurs villes sahélienn…
Addressing sustainable eco-development in a Malaysian area, this publication suggests collective actions on environmental, economic and social issues and policy tools to strengthen the capacity for institutional development, such as enhancing the adaptive capacity to disaster resilience. It takes a look forward, aiming to avoid rapid economic growth lea…
UN-Habitat announced that it is seeking city partners to pilot a new integrated urban planning and management model to help cities build resilience against disasters such as the recent superstorm Sandy which crashed through coastlines from the Caribbean and north America's Atlantic seaboard, or tsunamis and earthquakes.
"This is founded on the princip…
Press release 2014/453/SAR
Washington - Sri Lanka today became the first South Asian country to access an innovative form of World Bank financing that provides immediate payouts after a major catastrophe such as a tsunami, cyclone or flood.
Approved by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors, the $102 million Development Policy Loan with a Catas…
By Megan Rowling
London - Natural disasters forced 32.4 million people from their homes in 2012, with climate and weather hazards such as floods and storms causing 98 percent of the displacement, a report said on Monday.
The total was almost double the 2011 number, as major floods hit India and Nigeria last year, accounting for 41 percent of global di…
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The International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment has just published a special issue entitled Making cities resilient: from awareness to implementation, which details the achievements cities participating in the Making Cities Resilient Campaign have taken to build thei…
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Geneva - A new report released today by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) shows how ineffective urban governance combined with substandard housing leaves the poorest Filipinos the most exposed, yet the least well equipped to cope with natural hazards.
The Philippines is one of the world’s most at-risk nations to multip…
As climate change brings more drought, California may need to rethink how it uses and shares water
By Laurie Goering
When the first white settlers arrived in California's remote eastern Owens Valley, the name given to its indigenous tribes was Paiute, or "land of flowing water" in the local language.
But for more than a century, the water in the vall…
A glance at urban interventions by Red Cross Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean:
This publication was developed in an effort to complement and inform the internal process of defining urban intervention strategies in the Americas in order to manage urban risk related to health and sanitation; food security and nutrition; road safety; social, e…