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This report investigates the potential for harnessing key features of Transformative Innovation to improve the design and the implementation of Climate Change Adaptation strategies for Mazovia region and the municipality of Stare Babice, in Poland.
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This paper provides quantitative evidence on the geography of regional readiness to tackle climate change using data from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain.
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This paper provides quantitative evidence on the geography of regional readiness to tackle climate change using data from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain.
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This seismic risk profile of Poland, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.
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Most of the disasters that afflict humanity are in some way tied to water. Along with severe cases of pollution, those crises include floods, landslides, storms, droughts and wildfires.
United Nations Environment Programme
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In 2021, the first implementation of Readiness Workshops in Poland, carried out by Gotowi.org, took place in the Complex of Economic and Commercial Schools in Olsztyn.
GOTOWI.ORG Foundation
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This research analyzed interventions of State Fire Service (SFS) units in the Wielkopolska region of Poland that were triggered by extreme precipitation for the period 2010–2021.
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This article investigates polder implementation and management processes, perceived as a potential introduction of social innovation in Poland and Hungary, where social innovation in FRM is required but where the introduction of innovative solutions stall

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