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Indonesia plans to restore the eroding areas of its coastline in Java and Bali with nature based approaches inspired on Dutch methods. 'We are looking for alternative ways to solve coastal erosion problems in Indonesia and we are eager to collaborate with the Netherlands in 'Building with Nature'approaches,' said Mr. Eko Rudianto...

This policy brief summarises the current knowledge about the costs and benefits of climate change adaptation and mitigation, with the aim to support strategic policy making on climate change. Adaptation costs refer to making society more resilient to

Currently 1706 cities across the world have already signed up to participate in this effort. In the Netherlands, Dordrecht and Delft will be the first cities to take part...

'We should banish the popular public image of the medieval period as a time of superstitious hysteria and hopelessness. In many senses this too was a 'risk society', one with an increasingly sophisticated toolkit in hazard mitigation and adaption and developing measures of protection,' geographer David Petley and archaeologist Chris Gerrard point out...

This month sees the one year-anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, perhaps the largest Atlantic storm ever, writes Bas Jonkman, professor of hydraulic engineering at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. The unfortunate truth is that existing flood protection in most countries is simply not fit for purpose. A final part of this new agenda must be better distribution of roles and responsibilities between governments and the private sector, especially given the innovation and large sums of money that will be needed...

This volume presents eighteen case studies of natural disasters from Australia, Europe, North America and developing countries. By comparing the impacts, it seeks to identify what moves people to adapt, which adaptive activities succeed and which fail

Rotterdam's mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb has vowed to make Rotterdam the most sustainable port city in the world. Part of this project is to build floating urban districts with 13,000 climate-proof floating homes in by 2040 -- of which around 1,200 would be built on top of the water...

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El manual se estructura en nueve apartados en los que se identifican en los objetivos, los fundamentos teóricos y la metodología empleada y se describen las buenas prácticas de identificación del riesgo y cómo reducirlo: del 1 al 3