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Institutionalising Disaster Risk Management: Latin America’s systems approach
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013How are Latin American countries mainstreaming decentralised, democratic and participatory strategies to disaster risk management across public policy?DocumentLatin American experience in combining Disaster Risk Management with poverty reduction
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013Latin American countries are implementing a range of innovative strategies to address the underlying causes of disaster risk, while at the same time promoting social inclusion and productive growth.DocumentPushing Through Reform: Lima's Disaster Risk Management Strategy | ELLA
Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013In 2012, the City of Lima successfully launched an integrated DRM strategy, creating a budget of US$ 200 million for specific DRM actions benefiting 3.5 million of its most vulnerable inhabitants. In recent years, there have been a number of important actions at the institutional level for promoting disaster risk management (DRM) in developing countries.DocumentThe post-Hyogo Framework: What’s next for disaster risk reduction?
Oxfam, 2013The Post-Hyogo Framework, the successor to the Millennium Development Goals, and a new climate agreement are all expected in 2015. Thus, the next three years offer an outstanding opportunity to provide a crucial step change in disaster risk reduction (DRR) through the development of new international instruments.DocumentClimate-smart agriculture sourcebook
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013This comprehensive sourcebook on climate-smart agriculture (CSA), produced by the Food and Agriculture Organisation, consists of eighteen modules covering every aspect of planning and implementing CSA policies and projects.DocumentClimate vulnerability and capacity of ethnic minorities in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam
CARE International, 2013This 2013 report, produced by CARE international in Vietnam, is based on a study conducted as part of the Civil Action for Socio-economic Inclusion in Sustainable Development Project (CASI III).DocumentUrbanization and climate change impacts on future urban flooding in Can Tho city, Vietnam
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2013Urban development increases flood risk in cities due to local changes in hydrological and hydrometeorological conditions that increase flood hazard, as well as to urban concentrations that increase the vulnerability. The large-scale, global impacts due to climate variability and change could increase these risks.DocumentFarmers’ perceptions and adaptations to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa: a synthesis of empirical studies and implications for public policy in African agriculture
Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013Climate change has the potential of undermining sustainable development efforts in Africa, if steps are not taken to respond to its adverse consequences. This study reviews existing and available literature on farmers’ perceptions and adaptation strategies to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa.DocumentBringing people back into protected forests in developing countries: insights from co-management in Malawi
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013Focusing on Malawi, this study examines struggles to bring people back into protected forests to enhance sustainable forest management and livelihoods using insights emerging from a co-management project in Malawi. It uses mixed social science methods to analyse continuing local forest-user commitment to co-management despite conservation burdens largely for minimal financial benefits.