Climate Change

This document presents six resolutions and conclusions of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly related to different subjects, including post-disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation in Haiti, and the link between poverty and natural disasters. It

This conference report summarises the key messages conveyed during the debates by the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) and its partners, both inside and outside government, stating that bridging the urban divide is the starting point

The Asia-Pacific disaster report, 2010:

This report addresses the exponential increase of disaster risks in Asia-Pacific, as a result of the compounding effects of inequitable economic growth patterns, population pressures and extreme climatic events

This report elaborates a new framework for the engagement of the Engineering & Construction industry sector during the phases of relief, recovery and prevention as a result of 'natural disasters'.

This case study describes how the town of St. Bernard in the Philippines built disaster resilience in recovery from the 2006 Southern Leyte Landslide.

Practice briefing:

This briefing paper provides an overview of the disasters and climate change theme and summaries of the presentations made at a seminar bringing together academics, practitioners and policy-makers to explore how thinking on climate

Water and climate change adaptation, 6:

This perspective document aims to support cooperation and decisionmaking in transboundary basins on a range of relevant or emerging issues related to climate change, and addresses adaptation to possible impacts of

Guidance note 7:

This document focuses on environmental assessment, the natural starting point in the design of a project to explore natural hazards and related risk. It provides guidance in analysing the disaster risk-related consequences of potential

This guide serves as the culmination of the Humanitarian Horizons project, a futures capacity-building initiative intended to assist the humanitarian sector prepare for the complexities of the future by enabling organizations to enhance their anticipatory

This document reports on GFDRR interventions in 2009 and its achievement in maturing into a leading global player in disaster risk reduction and sustainable recovery, a reference for knowledge sharing and capacity building in vulnerable countries, a