Lithuania

This Strategic Framework presents the results of a project to improve the integrated management of water resources using the basin approach in the climate change context. The Project addressed the increased risks of dangerous hydrometeorological phenomena

These risk profile for Lithuania provides a preliminary view of disaster risk at the national level, and distribution of risk across regions of the country and types of assets.

These guidelines are aimed to support the development and implementation of risk-based Drought Management Plans ([DMP) in the context of the European Union Water Framework Directive – as part of the River Basin Management Plans (RBMP).

The objectives of

In recent years, dramatic river flooding has occurred in several regions of Europe causing numerous casualties and the damage reached unprecedented proportions. The protection of human and capital assets from natural hazards is high in the agenda of the

Submitted in preparation for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.