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The aid - €1.98 million to Bulgaria, €56 million to Italy and nearly €8.5 million to Romania - partially covers the cost recovery following floods. It will particularly help restore vital infrastructure and services...

This report summarizes the proceedings and highlights from the Forum on Safe and Resilient Infrastructure and the Government Executive Meeting that took place in Manila, Philippines, in October 2013. The forum showcased experiences of countries, including

This publication provides a practical introduction into the organization of community based disaster risk reduction activities in Southeast Europe. It is based on various disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs implemented by Caritas organizations in local

EAP DRM knowledge notes, working paper series no 27:

This note briefly surveys existing evidence in developing countries with regard to the benefits and costs of various disaster risk reduction interventions so as to provide some general lessons for

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.

For five days, 27 experts from the Civil Protection Authorities of 11 Mediterranean and Balkan countries gather on the Bosporus to analyse in detail recent disasters which affected the environment in the Euro-Mediterranean region and devise possible preparedness measures to respond to future crisis...

This report presents the institutional and legal framework for disaster risk reduction in Romania, and describes its common disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, land slide and nuclear.

This book is intended to be used as a basic information kit that tells "the story" of desertification, land degradation and drought at the global scale, together with a comprehensive set of graphics. It indicates trends as they have taken place over the