04 Feb 2021
In Costa Rica, drivers of vulnerability such as unplanned population growth, poor distribution and use of land, and the mountainous and steeply sloping terrain have led to great ecological imbalances. One of the consequences is devastating flooding w...
Tags: Awareness material, Climate Change Adaptation, Community Engagement and Accountability, Disaster Law, Flood, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
31 Jan 2017
The 2017 CAP Implementation Workshop, 20-21 September, and the training session on 19 September, will be at the ISA facility located at Via del Commercio 13 in Rome, about one kilometre southeast of Porta San Paolo (St. Paul’s Gate). There are many...
Tags: Report, Early Warning Systems
31 Jul 2014
As successive Human Development Reports (HDRs) have shown, most people in most countries have been doing steadily better in human development. Advances in technology, education and incomes hold ever-greater promise for longer, healthier, more secure ...
Tags: Report, Urban Preparedness