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This document includes brief case studies which identify “natural solutions”, which are often an essential contribution to cost effective climate change adaptation and mitigation. They emphasize the role of natural systems for regulating water flow

Migration as an adaptive measure: Mohamed Nasheed, president of the Maldives, has spoken openly about moving all 370,000 residents to another country if, as looks likely, rising waters cover the islands, most of which are less than 1.5m above sea level...

CARICOM Secretariat in tandem with the UNEP have launched the Caribbean Component of a four-year project designed to build capacity for CARIFORUM countries in complying with the implementation of Multi-lateral Environmental Agreements...

The National Emergency Management Organization of Belize is participating in a two-day workshop on risk assessment, formally known as CAPRA, or the Central American Probabilistic Risk Assessment, an initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank...

Con el objetivo de desarrollar un sistema de coordinación mesoamericano de información territorial entre usuarios y proveedores, en el cual la reducción de riesgos de desastres naturales sea un eje transversal del...

With support from ProVention, IFRC and OAS developed a set of 6 non-technical manuals aimed at promoting community-based disaster risk reduction activities in the following fields:

1. School Maintenance
2. Disaster Mitigation of Rural Water Supplies

Ensuring the safety of residents and tourists is vital to one of the region's top economic earners - tourism, the Government of Barbados is committed to assisting in the establishment and implementation of a sustainable tourism development programme...

This map illustrates population density within and outside of a 10m Low Elevation Coastal Zone: Belize.
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. (2007).

Country-level estimates of urban, rural and total