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    Urban and Megacities disaster risk reduction: manual of sound practices

    Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative, 2007
    Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is an important component for achieving sustainable development of cities and progress towards the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. This manual is a disaster risk communication tool aimed at facilitating the understanding of disaster vulnerabilities and risk to megacities and large complex urban areas.
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    Climate Disaster Resilience: focus on coastal urban cities in Asia

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2009
    Coastal urban cities in Asia are experiencing ever-increasing vulnerability due to climate change impacts and fast-growing urban development. This study measures the existing level of climate disaster resilience of the targeted areas using a Climate Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI) which is based on natural, physical, social, economic and institutional dimensions.
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    Climate change and local level Disaster Risk Reduction planning: need, opportunities and challenges

    Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network: Indore Initiative, 2009
    This paper examines strategic disaster risk reduction and what needs to be done to get reliable estimates of future climate change impacts. It looks at problems in the existing disaster risk management planning and highlights the need for a change in existing disaster risk reduction practices.
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    Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2012
    This Summary for Policymakers presents key findings from the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). It assesses scientific literature on issues that range from the relationship between climate change, extreme weather and climate events to the implications of these events for society and sustainable development.
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    Reducing Risk through Environment in Recovery Operations

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2009
    Increasing attention is being paid to the importance attached to environmental issues in recovery operations and the new challenges climate change will pose to communities already vulnerable to natural hazards. The purpose of this paper is to provide an introductory review of the current status of recovery operations in terms of integrating environment and long-term disaster risk reduction (DRR).
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    Disaster Risk Reduction. A review of DRR work by DEC Member Agencies in response to the 2004 Tsunami

    Reliefweb, 2010
    This review report from the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) examines whether its vision of a more long-lasting impact had been achieved in terms of strengthening the 2004 Tsunami-affected population’s resilience to future environmental shocks and disasters in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia. Its purpose is to inform future disaster responses by identifying lessons learnt.
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    Mainstreaming disaster risk reduction: a road towards sustainable urban development and creating safer urban communities

    US Agency for International Development, 2010
    This paper examines the risks of natural hazards and disasters that challenge the development efforts of the urban or city development process. It also highlights how local government, as the key partner of the development process, could contribute effectively to reducing disaster risks in their respective operational areas.
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    Why is community action needed for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation?

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2011
    This paper is an editorial of various others which bring out the importance of community action for disaster risk reduction, post-disaster rebuilding and climate change adaptation.
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    Decision-making constraints on the implementation of viable disaster risk reduction projects: some perspectives from economics

    Laboratory for Social Science Research, International Hurricane Research Center, Florida International University, 2011
    This paper seeks to explain why progress has been so slow on the implementation of disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects and programmes over the last decade. It explains that failure to implement cost-effective DRR projects may result from a breakdown of of decision-making at the individual, policy analyst and policymaker levels.
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    Climate change and migration: report of the Transatlantic study team

    The German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2010
    Environmental change is one of a larger set of factors that affect human migration and displacement worldwide. Climate change and variability will particularly affect migration in and from highly vulnerable areas like low-lying islands and deltas, coastal areas, areas dependent on glacial-fed water systems and areas subject to persistent drought.

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