Portugal

This report by the Secretariat for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) presents Portugal’s disaster risks and natural hazards.

This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Portugal, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, wild fire and earthquake.

In Portuguese:

A Resolução da Assembleia da República nº 102/2010 aconselha a elaboração de cartas de risco sísmico que identifiquem as zonas mais vulneráveis, as tipologias do edificado que mais contribuem para esse risco e a sua localização, as quais

Working together in Europe and the Mediterranean for the prevention of disasters, preparedness and response:

The objective of this plan is to provide a political and technical instrument containing priorities and guidelines for the action of the European

This documents presents the recommendations elaborated during the Round Table on The Value Added of Women in Civil Protection organised with the support of Algerian Civil Protection in Algiers on 26 March 2012. The document includes Round Table

This publication outlines the 12 most important humanitarian lessons from the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) peer reviews, profiles examples of good donor behaviour highlighted in the peer reviews, and sketches out the challenges donors still

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 paper presents the reports made on the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas by the chairman, IOC secretariat, working groups and tasks teams, and other intergovernmental