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This magazine reports on the third edition of the International Conference on National Safety and Security and features plenary session report on "Resilient citizens in a resilient society" led by UNISDR's Margareta Wahlström, pages 10-11. The

Port cities are particularly vulnerable to climate change related disasters such as storm surges, rising sea levels and development plans can be critical in risk management, writes Eric Roston on Bloomberg.com...

The magnitude 4.0 earthquake recorded off the coast of Antigua on 11 May is "a warning that the Caribbean should prepare for a much more severe earthquake to come," says a leading expert.

The World Bank and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs are launching a US$3 million joint program to reduce farmers’ financial vulnerability to crop and livestock losses...

'In each scenario, the Mekong Delta will play a different role in the national economy, and have different schemes for climate change adaptation as well as land and water use,' said Dick Kevelam, chief expert of the Netherlands’ Mekong Delta Plan (MDP)...

22nd Session CPL(22)2:

The objectives of this report are: to give a brief and general overview of the state of cities with respect to global trends in climate and other factors such as demographics and urbanisation; to analyse the factors that make a

Addressing the General Assembly, the Director of UNEP's Division of Environmental Policy Implementation, Ibrahim Thiaw, said that investing in the appropriate management of forests, wetlands and other ecosystems could reduce disaster risks by serving as natural buffers against common hazards and supporting livelihoods...

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