16 Nov 2018
Preparedness for Effective Response (PER) is a cyclical approach for a National Society (NS) to systematically assess, measure, and analyse the strengths and weaknesses of its response system in order to take remedial actions. The PER approach puts t...
Tags: Guidance material, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Community Risk Assessment
25 Sep 2014
Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa, has a total population estimated at 88 million (the third largest population in Africa), and contains over 80 ethnic groups spread over nine regional states and two city administrations, yet des...
Tags: Case Study, Disaster Law, Drought
21 Nov 2014
These are the lecture videos from the free UBC course Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate Change Conversations, which tackles the scientific and socio-political dimensions of climate change. This course introduces the basics of the climate system, m...
Tags: Video, Climate Change Adaptation