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    Global Estimates 2014: People displaced by disasters

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2014
    IDMC’s latest Global Estimates report shows that 22 million people were displaced in 2013 by disasters brought on by natural hazard events. As in previous years, the worst affected region is Asia, where 19 million people, or 87.1 per cent of the global total, were displaced during the year.
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    Disaster risk governance in volcanic areas

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    This paper develops an approach under Work Package 4 (WP4) of the Strengthening Resilience in Volcanic Areas (STREVA) programme for analysing the institutional factors that shape collective action to reduce disaster risk. The key messages include:
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    Agricultural vulnerability and adaptation to climatic changes in Malaysia: review on paddy sector

    Current World Environment, 2013
    This paper provides a brief review on the global and Malaysian perspective of climate change, and its impacts on Malaysian agriculture and relevant adaptation practices. It also provides policy recommendations for better coping with the changing nature of climatic factors.
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    Economic analysis of climate change adaptation strategies in selected coastal areas in Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam

    The WorldFish Center, 2013
    With many Southeast Asian countries dependent on marine ecosystems for food security and livelihoods, particularly in coastal communities, they are at significant risk to the impacts of climate change. This cross-country analysis by WorldFish seeks to better understand the risks associated with climate change and assess the various adaptation and policy options available.
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    Integrating disaster risk management into climate change adaptation

    Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 2013
    The Asian Disaster Preparedness Network have produced this guidebook to serve as a reference for integrating disaster risk management (DRM) into climate change adaptation (CCA), and to promote the adoption of a risk management approach to climate-sensitive decision-making. It guides the reader on how to contribute to CCA by improving the management of climate extremes.
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    Institutionalising Disaster Risk Management: Latin America’s systems approach

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    How are Latin American countries mainstreaming decentralised, democratic and participatory strategies to disaster risk management across public policy?
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    Pushing Through Reform: Lima's Disaster Risk Management Strategy | ELLA

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    In 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.
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    Children on the frontline: children and young people in Disaster Risk Reduction

    Plan, 2009
    Children and young people are particularly vulnerable to disasters - one in every three survivors of the Indian Ocean Tsunami were women or children under the age of 15.
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    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 between 2003 and 2008; with the developing world witnessing nine of the ten worst.
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    Transitioning to climate resilient development. Perspectives from communities in Peru

    World Bank Publications, 2008
    While the scientific capacity to forecast El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) extremes, this papers questions the extent to which these advances have benefited vulnerable communities by increasing their resilience to impeding El Niño events.

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