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Building economic resilience to natural hazards by investing in and implementing cost effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures
Hawaii: Disaster preparedness survey for Maui residents
11 Mar 2010, Maui Weekly
The County of Maui Civil Defence Agency is encouraging residents to participate in a public survey to help the County improve the existing planning and preparedness strategy and play a greater role in seeking federal funding for mitigation actions...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 1.2 [PDF, 110Kb]Dedicated and adequate resources are available to implement disaster risk reduction plans and activities at all administrative levels
- Indicator 4.3 [PDF, 93Kb]Economic and productive sectorial policies and plans have been implemented to reduce the vulnerability of economic activities
- Indicator 5.3 [PDF, 86Kb]Financial reserves and contingency mechanisms are in place to support effective response and recovery when required.
- Governance and financing for adaptation and mitigation measures in developing countries - Follow up to the COP1516 Mar 2010, Belgium (Brussels)
- Resilient cities 2010: 1st world congress on cities and adaptation to climate change28-30 May 2010, Germany (Bonn)
- Forest fires 201023-25 Jun 2010, Greece (Kos)
- Master in civil engineering for environmental risks mitigationPolitecnico di Milano, Italy (Milan)
- Learning about livelihoods2002, Oxfam Intl
- Education for all: Building the schools2003
- Desert locust control2000, FAO
From ISDR System and other DRR actors
- Mean annual economic losses due to natural disasters 1980–2008Mar 2009, Maplecroft
- Munich Re: Worldwide distribution of insured losses in 2009Dec 2009, Munich Re
- Natural disaster reported damages in 2007Jun 2008, CRED
- BBC World Debate: ‘Prevent or React’2009, BBC
- UNISDR YouTube channelUNISDR
External Online Resources
- Climate and Disaster Governance (CDG)
- Climatefundsupdate.org
- FAO and emergencies, from prevention to building back better
- FAO: Climate impact on agriculture (CLIMPAG)
- FAO: DRR-TECA (technology for agriculture) practices and technologies
- GFDRR: Economics of DRR (World Bank)
- Institute for Business and Home Safety: disaster safety portal
- World AgroMeteorological Information Service
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