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Disaster risk management

Disaster risk management is the application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the strengthening of resilience and reduction of disaster losses.

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How to strengthen monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems for adaptation

Monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems are about ensuring we implement climate change adaptation more effectively and more efficiently.
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Olive trees burn during a wildfire in Greece
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FAO launches updated guidelines to tackle extreme wildfires

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has released guidelines for countries outlining how to manage the risks of damaging wildfires, which can threaten people and the environment.
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Integrated fire management voluntary guidelines: Principles and strategic actions

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has released guidelines for countries outlining how to manage the risks of damaging wildfires, which can threaten people and the environment.
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Manila is reeling after a super typhoon. We must prepare fast-growing megacities for worsening disasters

Last week, a strong typhoon left a trail of destruction across the Philippines, Taiwan and China. Super Typhoon Gaemi intensified rapidly, leaving at least 65 people dead and triggering environmental fears after it sank an oil tanker in Manila Bay.
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Building resilience : Stories of regional integration for DRM in South Asia

This booklet offers a selection of activities which highlight the significant progress made in strengthening the resilience of South Asian nations and communities to weather- and climate-related disasters.
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Unveiling transboundary challenges in river flood risk management: learning from the Ciliwung river basin

This study presents the issues and challenges emerging from transboundary river flood risk management in the Jakarta metropolitan area of Indonesia, posed by the massive urban development and dramatic increases in annual flooding,
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Postcolonial futures for disaster risk reduction in South Asia

This issue offers pathways towards rethinking disaster risk and enhancing people’s everyday lives and livelihoods, moving away and ahead from mostly Western concepts, frameworks, methodologies, and tools to more plural local pathways.
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Serbia: Climate chante adaptation programme for the period 2023-2030

The Government of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Climate Change Adaptation Program for the period from 2023 to 2030. The adoption and implementation of the 2023-30 Climate Change Adaptation Programme is of general interest for the Republic of Serbia.

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