Participation manuals
- Regional Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Settings: From Theory to Practice
- F. Aragon-Durand / PreventionWeb, 2011
- The global concerns in regards to climate change, and hydro-meteorological disasters has risen, among other reasons, due to devastating consequences over massive floods around he world over the past f...
- Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction: revealing risk, redefining development
- PreventionWeb, 2011
- The risk of being killed by a natural disaster is lower today than it was 20 years ago, except for those countries with low GDP and weak governance. In these countries, disasters significantly impact ...
- Enabling child-centred agency in disaster risk reduction
- F. Seballos (ed);T. Tanner (ed) / PreventionWeb, 2010
- Child-centred approaches to disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) recognise the role and rights of children as citizens and agents of change. It is important to understand ...
- Private sector finance and climate change adaptation: how can voluntary private finance support adaptation in developing countries?
- A. Atteridge / PreventionWeb, 2009
- The document explores the need for adaptation finance, the role that private finance plays in supporting adaptation in developing countries, and ways in which private finance may support adaptation fu...
- Addressing the challenge: recommendations and quality criteria for linking disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change
- J. Birkmann (ed);G. Tetzlaff (ed);K. Zentel (ed) / PreventionWeb, 2007
- Climate change is a fact and a threat to human society due to increases in temperature, variations in precipitation and intensive weather related extreme events. These call for the mainstreaming of cl...
- Convergence of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
- T. Mitchell;M. van Aalst / PreventionWeb, 2008
- Development faces a growing threat from climate change. Yet despite the significant overlap, the respective agendas of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) have ...
- Natural and conflict related hazards in Asia-Pacific: risk assessment and mitigation measures for natural and conflict related hazards in Asia-Pacific
- F. Nadim;R. Chen;H. Buhaug / PreventionWeb, 2009
- Natural hazards, driven by geological and hydrological processes, affect many countries in Asia. This report presents the results of a previous study that aimed to quantify the risk posed by earthquak...
- 2009 Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction: risk and poverty in a changing climate
- PreventionWeb, 2009
- There is a growing trend towards greater and more catastrophic natural disasters. Of the ten disasters with the highest death tolls since 1975, half have occurred in the five year period betwe...
- Weathering the storm: participatory risk assessment for informal settlements
- A. Holloway;R. Roomaney / PreventionWeb, 2008
- Residents of informal settlements often bear the brunt of extreme weather and associated flooding. This guide is intended to strengthen participatory risk assessment capabilities for a wide range o...
- The humanitarian costs of climate change
- M. Webster;J. Ginnetti;P. Walker / PreventionWeb, 2009
- There is little doubt that climate change will produce more frequent and severe weather patterns. As such those communities who are susceptible to weather-related phenomena – such a...
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