Documents and publications

This project aims to fill a major gap in international knowledge through the careful analysis of recovery operations following a diverse range of natural disasters that have occurred during the past twenty years. The intention is to learn vital lessons by

Through the Climate Centre, the Netherlands Red Cross supports two pilot climate change and disaster risk reduction initiatives in Nicaragua and Viet Nam. In Nicaragua, the project aims at strengthening the Nicaraguan Red Cross’s capacity to carry out

Sustainable development of natural vegetation systems, land-use systems and rural populations in many countries are at risk due to wildland fires that devastate valuable vegetation resources (forests and other wildlands, farmlands, pastures, plantations

These fire management guidelines are designed to provide a base for policy makers and managers at various levels to develop programs and projects in which the specific national, socio-economic, and natural problems related to fire in temperate and boreal

Fire management is an essential part of sustainable forest management. This publication complements the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005 (FRA 2005) as an in-depth thematic study on the incidence, impact and management of forest fires in different

Booklet on volcanoes published by UN/ISDR for the 2002 World Disaster Reduction Campaign “Disaster reduction for sustainable mountain development”.

Cet ouvrage à caractère scientifique s’adresse à toutes les personnes intéressées par les phénomènes naturels et particulièrement la volcanologie mais aussi par l’histoire de l’Homme. Les problèmes liés à la prévision et à la prévention des

Volcanic earthquakes represent the main and often the only instrument to forecast volcanic eruptions. This book is the first monograph about seismicity in volcanoes. It describes the main types of seismic signals in volcanoes, their nature and spatial and