25 Sep 2014
Namibia is vulnerable to a range of natural hazards, especially drought and flooding. Flooding is an annually recurring event which is worsening each year, with the northern and northeastern regions being the worst affected. Drought is increasingly d...
Tags: Case Study, Disaster Law
07 Dec 2022
The underlying question in this briefing note is: How does climate change translate to communities heavily affected by organized armed violence? Is it possible to find correlations between climate change and organized criminal gangs’ ability to exe...
Tags: Case Study, Climate Change Adaptation
10 Mar 2014
This paper addresses the role of the private sector in humanitarian action in Indonesia and broad patters of engagement between the humanitarian and the private sectors. In analysing these issues, the paper identifies the barriers to, and opportu...
Tags: Case Study, Post-Disaster Recovery, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Preparedness