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This declaration lays out a number of commitments countries will work towards to advance the rights of the nearly 1.2 billion children in the Asia-Pacific Region. It focuses on regional cooperation in three key areas: (i) disaster risk reduction; (ii)

Dharmenda Singh reports that a legal framework drafted by the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry will soon make all geographical data, such as natural hazard sites and land use, available on-line in a comprehensive database, according to Minister Datuk Seri Douglas Uggah Embas...

This report presents a framework to assess risks associated with energy security, water scarcity, and climate change including more frequent and intense floods, droughts, storms, and precipitation, for the real estate sector in Southeast Asia. It also

ICHARM publication no. 12:

This report describes the content and evaluates the result of one core activity of ICHARM: the region-focused JICA training course 'Flood hazard mapping', aimed at flood damage mitigation by enhancing the technical level of

These three sectoral reports were produced to complete the Malaysian National slope master plan 2009-2023 with the aim of formulating a detailed, comprehensive and effective framework of policies, strategies and action plans to reduce risks from landslides on slopes nationwide. The plan included activities at the national, state and local levels in both the public and private sectors.

Addressing sustainable eco-development in a Malaysian area, this publication suggests collective actions on environmental, economic and social issues and policy tools to strengthen the capacity for institutional development, such as enhancing the adaptive

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

This report highlights the most significant climate change impacts that will affect some of Asia’s largest metropolitan areas including Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), Bangkok (Thailand), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Shanghai (China), Hong Kong (China), Dhaka