04 Nov 2014
Climate change has made it increasingly difficult to predict when the river will overflow and force the families in the neighborhood to leave their homes. While in the past, floods used to strictly obey the circulation of the two seasons − rain...
Tags: Case Study, Climate Change Adaptation, Flood
01 Dec 2023
The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, commonly experiencing floods, droughts, and typhoons. According to the latest assessment of the World Risk Index (2022), the Philippines is the country with the highest disaste...
Tags: Other type of resource, Report, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Climate Change Adaptation, Community Engagement and Accountability, Flood, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
25 Sep 2014
Brazil has in the recent past increased the number of initiatives on disaster risk reduction (DRR). This has been triggered especially by the recent episodes of serious disasters hitting the country, notably floods and landslides, for example, in 2...
Tags: Case Study, Disaster Law