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Asia
Philippines: Opinion - mitigating disaster risk
9 Mar 2010, Business Mirror
'The best way to manage disaster is preparedness' writes Senator Edgardo J. Angara on mitigating the destructive impact of disasters...
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation: the way ahead19-20 Mar 2010, India (Jabalpur)
- International forum on telling live lessons from disasters20-22 Mar 2010, Japan (Kobe)
- IPCC Second lead authors meeting: Special Report - managing the risk of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation22-25 Mar 2010, Viet Nam (Hanoi)
- Regional Policy & Plans
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From ISDR System and other DRR actors
- Manual on flood preparedness program for provincial and district level authorities in the Lower Mekong Basin countries2009, ADPC; GTZ; ECHO; MRC
- Building back better: delivering people-centred housing reconstruction at scale2010, Practical Action
- Reduction of earthquake losses in the extended Mediterranean region (RELEMR): seismicity and earthquake engineering in the extended Mediterranean region2010, UNESCO
General Facts
- Population: 3,938 million (2005)
- Density: 124 per sq km
- Total Area: 31,870 sq km (X 1,000)
Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database
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- Climate change vulnerability map of Southeast AsiaJan 2009, EEPSEA; IDRC
- Multiple climate hazard map of Southeast AsiaJan 2009, EEPSEA; IDRC
- Adaptive capacity map of Southeast Asia in 2005Jan 2009, EEPSEA; IDRC
- Tsunami - building better for next time2009, UNISDR - AP
- China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province - trailer2009, HBO
- Reducing disaster risk in a changing climate2009, UNISDR
- Field programme directorCambodia (Phnom-Penh), Handicap Intl
- Forestry, climate change and biodiversity conservation technical advisorIndonesia (Jakarta), Winrock Intl
- Research specialistsJapan (Tsukuba), ICHARM
External Online Resources
- East Asia and Pacific: A primer on reducing vulnerabilities to climate change impacts and strengthening DRM
- FAO and emergencies, from prevention to building back better
- FAO: Climate impact on agriculture (CLIMPAG)
- FAO: DRR-TECA (technology for agriculture) practices and technologies
- FAO: Global information and early warning system (GIEWS)
- HelpDesk for Integrated Flood Management (IFM HelpDesk)
- IRI: climate and desert locust monitoring
- Knowledge network on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change
- Knowledge sharing on disaster risk reduction
- Les criquets ravageurs (in French)
- Locust watch
- Selemat Project
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Japan: disaster reduction - Japan's action
- UNFCCC: local coping strategies database
- WMO: severe weather information centre
- WMO: severe weather information centre: heavy rain/snow
- WMO: severe weather information centre: thunderstorms
