20 Oct 2013
Report of the Workshop organized in Port‐au‐Prince ‐ Haiti between 22nd – 26th of August 201. It covers main elements of the urban context with the additional complementary perspective of Disaster Risk Management and Public Policies, and...
Tags: Report, Post-Disaster Recovery, Urban Risk Reduction
04 Nov 2020
The World Cities Report 2020 convincingly affirms that well-planned, managed, and financed cities and towns create economic, social, environmental and other unquantifiable value that can vastly improve the quality of life of all. Urbanization can be ...
Tags: Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Six Characteristics of a Safe and Resilient Community, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Urban Preparedness, Urban Risk Reduction
02 May 2023
As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, governments and civil society organizations are making large investments in early warning systems (EWS) with the aim to avoid death and destruction from hydro-meteorol...
Tags: Research, Early Warning Systems