Climate Change

This program aims to improve society's response capacity to the threats and risks generated by climate change by applying land management instruments.

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

A system-level mapping and assessment of international humanitarian assistance. Current efforts to increase humanitarian engagement and investment in disaster risk reduction (DRR) should reap future benefits in terms of improved preparedness and more timely, efficient and locally grounded responses.

Each year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) responds to more than 200 emergencies around the world, working with governments, civil society, communities, private companies and non-governmental organizations to meet urgent needs, protect

IDB working paper series # IDB-WP-124:

This paper summarizes the state of the economic literature examining the aggregate impact of disasters. The paper reviews the main disaster data sources available, discusses the determinants of the direct effects