What is climate change adaptation?
Video that explains what is climate change adaptation and what are the effects of climate change.
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Copenhagen Climate Change Adaptation
Climate Change Web Film developed in collaboration with the City of Copenhagen. This video explains how the city of Copenhagen will prepare to adapt for climate change.
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Participatory video on community adaptation to climate change, Macedonia
Location: Kriva Palanka, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.In November 2012, the Red Cross of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia helped facilitate a group of community members and volunteers in Kriva Palanka to produce a participatory video to highlight their work with communities on climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and preparedness. The community producers conducted
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Old Wisdom, Old Respect, Old Vulnerability
Old Wisdom, Old Respect, Old Vulnerability: 2014 is dedicated to the elderly around the world. October 13th is the International Day for Disaster Reduction, where we celebrate how people and communities are reducing their disaster risk and raising awareness about the importance of Disaster Risk Reduction. It’s also a day for encouraging every citizen and every
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Serious Games: Role-Playing for Real
“In the absence of the play-spirit, civilization is impossible.” Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens, 1938. Game play can be deadly earnest. Nations stake their honour on a leather ball, soldiers march on parade, and the people of at-risk communities act out their own survival. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Climate Centre designs and uses games
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Valuing what works – Success Factors in Disaster Preparedness
This report summarizes an 18-month, evidence-based study that sought to understand practitioner information needs by asking the question: What are successful Red Cross/Red Crescent (RCRC) preparedness practitioners already doing that works, and how can the organization better support their information needs in what they are already doing? A research team from the University of Washington conducted
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Civil War, Cereal, and Smart Compassion
When you live in a valley surrounded by mountains, you see everything coming. For the past few years, we feared tanks and troops. This time was different. As spring slowly transformed the mountains, humanitarian trucks appeared on the horizon. It was 1995, I was seven years old, and the post-soviet civil war had forced my
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IFRC Partnership on Urban Disaster Risk Reduction
The IFRC and Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran have initiated a Partnership on Urban Disaster Risk Reduction. Initial activies under the partnership include pilot studies in five cities: Nairobi, Kenya; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Jakarta, Indonesia; Yerevan, Armenia; and Tehran, Iran. As one of the outcomes of this partnership a guide to urban resilience that
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Flood Safety Checklist. French
This document is a Flood Safety Checklist that gives you basic information on what to do & what supplies do you need in case of a flood occurs. French
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Improving the Assessment of Disaster Risks to Strengthen Financial Resilience: A Special Joint G20 Publication by the Government of Mexico and the World Bank
Responding to a G20 request, the Improving the Assessment of Disaster Risks to Strengthen Financial Resilience: A Special Joint G20 Publication by the Government of Mexico and the World Bank brings together the experiences of G20 countries in protecting their populations and assets against natural hazards. It includes contributions by fifteen G20 members and invited countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil,
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