27 Oct 2014
Viet Nam: Country Case Study Report How Law and Regulation Support Disaster Risk Reduction International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies May 2014 Viet Nam is prone to many different types of natural hazards. They are mainly hy...
Tags: Case Study, Disaster Law
07 May 2014
Viet Nam has always suffered from extreme weather events. Because of climate change, it is likely that droughts will occur more often, and that tropical cyclones will also become more intense. In 2003, the Vietnam Red Cross Society (VNRCS) became o...
Tags: Case Study, Climate Change Adaptation, Drought, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone
02 Jan 2014
This research report draws on the experience of the TRP CBDRR programmes and current literature in order to identify the ‘characteristics of safe and resilientcommunities; to understand how these characteristics changed over time and howRCRC inter...
Tags: Guidance material, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management