14 Jul 2014
Published by GeoHazards International, this working draft guidebook is designed to help local leaders prepare their communities for tsunamis using a whole-community approach. This guidebook is for anyone who would like to be an advocate for tsunami p...
Tags: Guidance material, Community Risk Assessment, Early Warning Systems, Public Awareness and Public Education, Tsunami
09 Feb 2015
“Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is a vital defense against climate change and displacement, particularly in the current context of increasing numbers of disaster-affected persons. In the last two decades, for example, an estimated 200 million pe...
Tags: Report, Post-Disaster Recovery, Risk Assessment
18 Mar 2015
This report presents detailed findings from a selection of 17 countries in Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific (Asia/Pacific), Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States (ECI S), and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC ), where UNDP worke...
Tags: Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management