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Floods continue to wreak havoc across Central Europe and it is most likely that the Danube will reach record highs in Hungary as well, reports Index.hu. According to certain studies, the phenomenon may be connected to climate change...

Following a heavy rainfall Central and Eastern Europe has been struggling with flooding. Particularly Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic were severely hit, while Hungary is preparing for more inundiations to come, reports Vatican Radio. The Czech government had invested in an anti-flooding system following the 2002 floods...

The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2011-13 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and the ISDR partnership.

This study provides and overview of Hungary’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as drought, earthquake, flood and wildfire.

This document presents Hungary’s legal and institutional framework for disaster management and sets out the objectives and functions of the National Directorate General for Disaster Management.

This National Review summarizes the efforts, made between 2009-2011 by the National Directorate General for Disaster Management of the Ministry of the Interior, as the national focal point of ISDR for the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action

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

This issue focuses on urban resilience and looks at recent occurrences of weather-related events causing widespread devastation and misery, including floods, typhoons and wildfires in Australia, severe winter weather in Colombia, snowstorms in Estonia and