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Floods in Boulder: A Study of Resilience

28 Apr 2014
This study looks at flooding in Boulder, Colorado that occurred in September 2013. Though the scale of flooding was unprecedented, only 10 lives were lost, most infrastructure was maintained, and the recovery was relatively strong. This case study ex...
Case Study, Flood, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Video

NRRC Flagship 4: Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction

27 Apr 2014
Visit the NRRC at: http://www.un.org.np/coordinationmech…Visit Flagship 4 at: http://flagship4.nrrc.org.np/Follow the NRRC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NepalDRRFollow the NRRC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NepalDRR Flagship 4 of ...
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NRRC Flagship 3: Flood Management in the Kosi River Basin

27 Apr 2014
Visit the NRRC at: http://www.un.org.np/coordinationmech… Follow the NRRC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NepalDRR Follow the NRRC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NepalDRR Flagship 3 of the Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium (NRRC) is coo...
Video, Flood
Video

NRRC Flagship 2: Emergency Preparedness and Response

27 Apr 2014
Visit the NRRC at: http://www.un.org.np/coordinationmech…Visit Flagship 2 at: http://flagship2.nrrc.org.np/Follow the NRRC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NepalDRRFollow the NRRC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NepalDRR Flagship 2 of ...
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NRRC Flagship 1: School and Hospital Safety

27 Apr 2014
Visit the NRRC at: http://www.un.org.np/coordinationmech… Follow the NRRC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NepalDRR Follow the NRRC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NepalDRR Flagship 1 of the Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium (NRRC) is coo...
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Report

Managing the Risk of Humanitarian Crises

25 Apr 2014
The number of people affected by humanitarian crises has almost doubled over the past decade and is expected to keep rising. In early 2014, international aid organizations aimed to assist 52 million people in crisis, and millions more people so...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Case Study

Mauritania: Small-scale surface irrigation for food security

17 Apr 2014
The majority of the population in Mauritania provides for themselves through traditional agriculture and livestock farming and are heavily dependent on the rainy seasons. As a result of unpredictable seasonal rains and climatic conditions, climate ha...
Case Study, Drought, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

Pathways to a climate resilient future: a community-based cost benefit analysis of a food security project in Ethiopia

17 Apr 2014
In recent years, climate change impacts have created grave new threats to rural livelihoods. Community-based cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is an evidence-based tool which can effectively be used to ascertain the value and impact of integrating resilien...
Case Study, Climate Change Adaptation, Drought, Flood, Livelihoods and Food Security
Case Study

‘Healthy mother, healthy child’ – improving the nutritional and health status of women and children in Kazakhstan

17 Apr 2014
The health of the population of Kazakhstan, in particular of women, requires urgent attention. The nutritional status of women and children, especially those living in economically deprived and environmentally degraded regions of Kazakhstan, is of se...
Case Study, Livelihoods and Food Security, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
Research

City Resilience Framework – City Resilience Index

16 Apr 2014
This framework published by the Rockefeller Foundation as part of their 100 Resilient Cities Campaign is intended to form the basis of a tool that should enable all of us interested in city resilience to convene around a common understanding of th...
Research, Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience

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