National policies, plans and risk and governance profile(s)

This report forms part of a series of reports on climate law and policy for judges in Asia and the Pacific which seeks to (i) share environmental and climate jurisprudence from Asia and the Pacific, contributing to global knowledge on regional climate law

Our challenging times call for a reformulation and paradigm shift from a single hazard, single sector perspective to a multihazard, multi-sectoral and systemic risk perspective. To achieve this, building multiple and complex risk scenarios that take the

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the first pandemic caused by a coronavirus (COVID). Countries around the world moved swiftly to declare states of emergency, closing ports of entry and activating crisis management systems

 This study investigates earthquake risk of multifamily buildings constructed before 2000 across 27 cities in 20 countries within Europe and Central Asia (ECA) to better understand their behavior and potential losses when subjected to earthquakes, and to

Just as women and men have unequal access to rights, resources and opportunities, they relate to and interact with the natural environment in different ways, face differing vulnerabilities and impacts, and have unique knowledge and adaptive capacity

The study highlights learnings from past disasters and features 10 lessons and good practices from Asia-Pacific. The study also provides a few Recommendations for covid-19 socio-economic recovery.

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘The Impact of COVID-19 in Asia Pacific’ and takes a detailed look at how the pandemic has affected the various countries of the region. The social, economic, demographic and cultural diversity of the region

Gender inequality, unequal power relations and discrimination are barriers that often prevent women, girls and people of diverse sexual and gender identities from equal representation and participation in many aspects of society. Addressing these issues

View more Knowledge Base entries

Further DRR country-level resources

IRP resources on Andorra
The International Recovery Platform strengthens knowledge and information on building back better in recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction.

Explore the Knowledge Base

PreventionWeb's knowledge base contains more than 75,000 entries and is updated daily.

Bookshelves in a library.
Type of content
Explore all updates by their type: news, publications, resource guides and more.
Thai people making sandbags to prevent flooding during the monsoon season in Bangkok, Thailand
Themes
Explore by the DRR theme: Human, economic, governance, science, environment and more.
Different symbols of hazards and disasters.
Hazards
Explore by the hazard type: floods, heat, landslides, drought and more.
Airplane from above
Resource guides
Keep up to date with various DRR topics and emerging trends.

Is this page useful?

Yes No
Report an issue on this page

Thank you. If you have 2 minutes, we would benefit from additional feedback (link opens in a new window).