Documents and publications

This article addresses the expected increase of migration flows due to climate change, especially from socially and environmentally vulnerable populations, and the absence of official protection under international law.

This book addresses the way climate change affect global poverty rates and presents country-specific studies with implications for low-income rural populations as well as governments' risk management programs. It surveys the research terrain concerning

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Actualidad CRID inicia este 2013 con una edición especial dedicada al sitio “Sistematización de Herramientas de Gestión de Riesgo de Desastres”, el nuevo portal web desarrollado por el CRID y la UNISDR en el marco del VII Plan de Acción

An academic response to Jakarta floods in January 2013, IRGSC working paper no. 2:

This paper highlights the development of Jakarta and its social-economic-environmental vulnerability. The paper uses formal statistical data, flood historical data and

This newsletter reports on Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA)'s completion of its reconstruction portfolio in earthquake affected areas of Pakistan in 2011-2012, as well as on the social impact of its strategies in the following

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

This paper presents strategies for flood risk management of urban waters in humid tropics, based upon case studies of early warning, protection and rehabilitation. The paper discusses how to handle new challenges in flood risk management in order to focus

This book highlights the experience of those who survived the flood and the community activists who led the response on the ground. As far as possible the book draws upon the words of these survivors and activists, one year on from the 2010 floods. Those