At the core of this year's overview of risks to the global community over the next decade is a fundamental disconnect between risk and mitigation. Expert opinion suggests that levels of risk are...
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Climate Change and Smallholder Farmers in Malawi: Understanding Poor People's Experiences in Climate Change Adaptation
Southern Africa is one of the regions estimated to be most at risk from climate change. While policy responses to global warming have been mainly driven by debates among scientists, the insights of...
Climate Change, Urban Flooding and the Rights of the Urban Poor in Africa: Key findings from six African cities
The right to adequate housing and 'continuous improvement of living conditions' was recognised more than three decades ago by the governments that ratified the International Covenant on Economic,...
Lebanon: Oil Spill's Potential Impact (August 2006)
Please refer to the attached Infographic.
Iraq Institutional Capacity Assessment Report (June 2006)
Executive Summary The Iraqi Ministry of Environment (MoEn), which stemmed from and incorporated the Ministry of Health’s former Environmental Protection and Improvement Directorate, was established...
Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre: Annual report 2005 - Preparing for climate change
I Preface The year 2005 was an intense reminder of the devastation that natural hazards can bring upon the world. While the impact of the Tsunami of Christmas 2004 was still unfolding, the hurricanes...
The Climate of Poverty: Facts, Fears and Hope
This report offers the vision of a different future - a revolution in development thinking that could see poor regions using renewable energy to power a new and clean era of prosperity. The other...
Gender and desertification: Expanding roles for women to restore drylands
In addition to caring for their families, women across the developing world spend considerable proportions of their time and energy using and preserving land for the production of food and fuel and...
Environmental Aspects of Integrated Flood Management
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Integrated Flood Management (IFM) addresses issues of human security and sustainable development from a perspective of flood management, within the framework of Integrated Water...