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- This publication presents a web application that combines air traffic data and network simulations in order to predict where infectious diseases may spread to and aid in their prevention.The results from selected time periods support that modeling air travel and passenger movement between South america and the United states can be a powerful tool in...
- The United Kingdom (UK) Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 Evidence Report is the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of the risks and opportunities posed by climate change to the UK. It assesses the urgency of further action to tackle current and future risks, and realise opportunities. Almost sixty individual risks and opportunities...
- This is the report of the Working Group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters, for consideration by the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management.The report of the Working Group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters describes its formation, delineates its terms of reference and...
- This policy brief identifies approaches that could help achieve better synergies in implementation of these frameworks on the ground via programmatic integration, collaboration, capacity and innovation.The document's key messages are the following: Coordinated response is needed from all relevant stakeholders to maximise...
- The first Central Asia and South Caucasus Regional Platform is a landmark moment for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a global blueprint adopted last year. It is the latest region to establish such a forum to strengthen collaboration and provide important support to implementation of the framework, designed to reduce both disaster risk...
- With little effort to mitigate emissions, and even less for adaptation, climate change impacts are occurring with more severity and higher frequency - and societies are not able to adapt to all of the impacts. A recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme looks at the extent of loss and damage the world can expect, and what can possibly...
- By Andy McElroy
DUSHANBE, 13 July 2016 – The first Central Asia and South Caucasus Regional Platform is a landmark moment for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, a global blueprint adopted last year.
It is the latest region to establish such a forum to strengthen collaboration and provide important support to implementation of the Sendai Framework, designed…
- This publication informs the debate on how to strengthen resilience against a variety of global risks. It focuses on identifying measures that entities of all types and sizes can take to increase resilience and distilling what each stakeholder can bring to the collaboration table.The chapter "Building Resilience to Water Crises" (pp....
- This publication showcases the first steps towards an integrated catchment plan for Cumbria (United Kingdom). Following the devastating floods in the area the last years, the authorities appointed a Director for each main catchment, Eden, Derwent, and Kent and Leven. This document records their initial work to make communities safer for this winter,...
- This publication seeks to enhance the understanding of, and boost resilience to, water stress conditions in drought-prone areas, using the FAO Agricultural Stress Index System (ASIS). In order to boost the resilience of livelihoods to threats arising from climate change, and especially drought events, it is primordial to...