Las pruebas de aguas residuales pueden mejorar y potenciar la respuesta contra la COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe Las pruebas de aguas residuales ofrecen una forma relativamente económica para...
Wastewater testing can improve and enhance the response to COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean Wastewater testing provides a relatively economic method whereby countries in Latin America and...
Introduction Disasters have been studied for centuries, but ‘modern’ disasters studies have arguably developed over the past half century or so. For instance, the journal Disasters began publication...
Introduction Annually, ADRC publishes the Natural Disaster Data Book to provide statistical perspectives in figures and tables of natural disaster data. ADRC obtains data from EM-DAT and analyses it...
Editorial From the ruins of Beirut to the flooded regions of la Roya and Germany, from the villages under attack in the Central African Republic to the at-risk zones of the Sahel, from the outskirts...
Feng Zhao, Sulzhan Bali, Rialda Kovacevic, Jeff Weintraub Correspondence to Dr Sulzhan Bali, Health, Nutrition, and Population, World Bank, Washington, DC 20443, USA; sbali@worldbank.org Abstract The...
Executive Summary Approaches integrating environmental management practices have been gaining importance in recent years. They address current global challenges such as food insecurity, water...
Summary P ost-2015 policy agendas including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Paris Agreement, and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) all build on objectives to enable...
1. BACKGROUND Preventing and preparing for internal displacement during armed conflict is notoriously difficult. In comparison, the predictable, cyclical, or slow-onset nature or geographic location...
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While some countries in the Asia-Pacific region are adapting to climate change, countries with special needs (CSNs) with less resources and capacities face significant challenges implementing...
INTRODUCTION This report considers the relationship between climate change and humanitarian action. It asks how climate change will affect humanitarian needs; outlines the current state of readiness...
El nuevo informe de la FAO sobre los recursos de tierras y aguas dibuja un panorama alarmante Según se recoge en la edición de 2021 de El estado de los recursos de tierras y aguas del mundo para la...
PREFACE Setting the scene Human use of land and water for agriculture has not yet peaked, but all evidence points to slowing growth in agricultural productivity, rapid exhaustion of productive...
Brief Report from the UK National Commission for UNESCO and PRAXIS at the University of Leeds. Session held on Tuesday 23rd February 2021. Disasters have significant physical, environmental,...
Resumen: La pandemia de la enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19) puso de manifiesto la vulnerabilidad de los sistemas agroalimentarios a las perturbaciones y tensiones y dio lugar a una mayor...
Résumé: La pandémie de covid-19 a fait apparaître au grand jour la vulnérabilité des systèmes agroalimentaires face aux chocs et aux situations de stress et entraîné une augmentation de l’insécurité...
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerability of agri-food systems to shocks and stresses and led to increased global food insecurity and malnutrition. Action is needed to make agri-food...
Summary for city-level decision makers It is clear from the analysis provided in this second edition of GEO for Cities that cities have the potential to drive progress towards the 2030 Agenda and its...
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1 | Executive Summary The goal of this project is to explore and understand the potential for “Green Investment Banks” and National Climate Change Funds (NCCFs) to increase the capacity of African...
This report asks what needs to change in the approach of the United Nations system as a whole to make significant practical progress on gender equality in disaster risk reduction by 2030. It asks how...