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This open access book aims to improve the quality of climate planning by providing 19 examples of analysis and assessments in eleven countries. It is intended for local operators in the fields of climate, hydro-climatic risks, physical planning, besides

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This report has been prepared as part of an effort by IUCN to define its position on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and plan for future work to advance this concept and support effective implementation of NbS to facilitate disaster risk reduction and

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This study presents a risk assessment carried out in Colombia, Belize and Spain with an open model that can be used by every government or user: the CAPRA (Comprehensive Approach to Probabilistic Risk Assessment) platform. This platform is open access

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The main goal of the ENHANCE project  ('Enhancing risk management partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters in Europe')  is to develop and analyse innovative ways to manage natural hazard risks and the key for that is to develop new multi-sectoral

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The ENHANCE project (Enhancing risk management partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters in Europe) analyses and develops new multi-sector partnernsips (MSPs) between public and private sectors, with emphasis on the financial sector. Analysing

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This report proposes a comprehensive analysis of, and a set of key recommendations on policy approaches to the sustainable management of droughts and floods in agriculture. It builds on recent trends, experiences and research from OECD countries in this

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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Volume 15, March 2016, Pages 1–9, doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.11.004:

This study analyses various government-sponsored natural disaster insurance pools in the US, New Zealand, Spain and France, as well as

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Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos para Cálculo y Diseño en Ingeniería, Marzo 2015, doi:10.1016/j.rimni.2014.12.001:

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En este artículo se ha realizado una evaluación probabilista e integral del riesgo sísmico para las edificaciones de

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