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'Communities should work together to identify particularly vulnerable people and to ensure that everyone has a family emergency plan for helping themselves. Tsunami or not, you can still be prepared!' warns Dr Ilan Kelman, a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research

The White Paper states that everyone is responsible for climate change adaptation - individuals, business and industry and the authorities. For these adaptation measures to succeed, projections on future climate and knowledge are essential.

'Integrating disaster risk reduction from the beginning, during the planning stage, and taking a consistent approach will ensure the best results,' Susana Malcorra, Chef de Cabinet to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on his behalf as the Assembly held a day-long interactive thematic debate on the subject...

There was a strong call for "the incorporation of disaster risk reduction in any future framework for sustainable development" during the UN General Assembly Thematic Debate on Disaster Risk Reduction yesterday which served as a major curtain raiser for Rio+20.

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 main message from the report is that we know enough to make good decisions about managing the risks of climate-related disasters. Sometimes we take advantage of this knowledge, but many times we do not,' said Chris Field, Co-Chair of IPCC’s Working Group II...

The findings indicate that strong economic performance in the BRICs has not translated into improved societal resilience or governance, which constrain a country’s ability to adapt and combat potential shocks from pandemics and the impacts of climate change, among others...

Polar Research, Vol 28, No 1 pp. 1-9:

This special edition of Polar Research brings together nine papers on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in the Arctic, providing important insights on the nature of the risks and opportunities