Costa Rica

The present volume features concise summaries of fifteen case studies compiled over a period of three years, providing ‘snapshots’ of water management and use today in diverse regions of the world. These case studies, by design, closely complement the

This document presents a review of current and planned adaptation action in Central America and Mexico, covering the following eight countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, as well as Mexico. The review first

This review provides an inventory of country-level adaptation activities and a summary of key adaptation priorities, based on documents like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s National Adaptation Programs of Action and National Communications

A declaration, adopted by 19 climate vulnerable countries, reaffirming the commitment by climate vulnerable countries to focus on adaptation, particularly in the short term in order to minimise immediate danger, and calling on developed countries to

Disaster risk management in East Asia and the Pacific, working paper series no. 23:

This note addresses the instruments supporting risk retention and risk financing at the national and regional/international levels. It reviews examples generally

La finalidad de esta ley es conferir un marco jurídico ágil y eficaz, que garantice la reducción de las causas del riesgo, así como el manejo oportuno, coordinado y eficiente de las situaciones de emergencia. Esta ley incluye la participación de la

Con este instrumento de metodología la comisión ordena el proceso destinado a atender las emergencias que son objeto de declaratoria de emergencia nacional por parte del Poder Ejecutivo. La metodología sigue las directrices normativas y los procesos de

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Esta edición del Boletín Actualidad CRID publica información sobre (i) el nuevo acuerdo firmado por el CRID y la Federación Internacional de Sociedades de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja (FICR) para el desarrollo de actividades en Haití