Vulnerability and disaster assessment and mapping in coastal areas are essential tasks and undertakings for coastal disaster risk management. The objectives of this study were to assess the climate change vulnerability and disaster risks in the four municipalities (Sta. Cruz, Candelaria, Masinloc and ...
Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction (气候变化和减少灾害风险) ISDR Briefing Note 01 Climate Change and Geneva, September 2008 Disaster Risk Reduction Climate change and disaster risk Weather, climate and climate change reduction are closely linked. More extreme weather events in future Defining ...
Risk assessment is a core area of climate change research. Quantitative assessment methods have been developed particularly due to the needs for theory of mitigation and adaptation strategies, and have been applied to a great number of specific assessments. However, there have been different viewpoints...
Increasing learning opportunities and teaching capacities in higher education (HE) institutions in the domain of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) is a key pre-requisite not only to enhance individual and collective knowledge, but also to forge resilient societies. How...
Casestudy:disasterriskmanagementandclimate changeadaptationinGreaterAlgiers:overviewon astudyassessingurbanvulnerabilitiestodisaster riskandproposingmeasuresforadaptation SaraBoughedir ThecityofAlgiersinAlgeriaisparticularlyexposedtodisaster risks,anditsvulnerabilityislikelytoincreasewithclimate change.IntheWilayaofAlgiers,...
2: Climate change and disaster risk. Source: Field et al. (2012)uated and decisions are made by politically legitimized representatives. Defined goalsserve here as a normative basis for the evaluation of the determined facts.Assessment and evaluation methods generally serve to structure the ...
Climate change is a challenge for all of humanity. The sustainable development of the Chinese nation and the future of the planet depend on tackling it successfully. 中国高度重视应对气候变化。作为世界上最大的发展中国家,中...
aThis called "disaster risk reduction is a global assessment report" (Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction) said: "Climate change will exacerbate the unequal distribution of risk, so that the impact of further disaster to the poor communities in developing countries is tilted." 正在...
Climate Change Risk Research: A Case Study on Flood Disaster Risk in China[J]. WU Shao-Hong 1 , PAN Tao 1 , HE Shan-Feng 2 1 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 2 Henan Polytechnic University...
UNITED NATIONS, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Human activity and behavior, on top of climate change, are contributing to an increasing number of disasters across the world, finds a UN report. The number of medium- to large-scale disaster events is projected to reach 560 a year, or 1.5 disasters ...