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Displaying 10 of about 10 resultsRIO DE JANEIRO, 21 June 2012 - The UK's Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington, used yesterday's UNISDR "Resilient Cities" event at Rio+20 to make an urgent appeal for scientists to use plain language if they are to play a larger role in policymaking on climate change.
"The next fifteen years are really problematic. We'll have a billion more peo…
This issue includes:
Editorial -
Voices & Ideas:
- Chosica: Prevention Bears Fruit
- Crisis or Mitigation?: The role of relationships between institutions and communities in disaster recovery assistance
- Contingency plans for coping with disasters: A need that cannot be postponed
- Agents of Change: The Role of Children and Youth in Disaster
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This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
The Government of Jamaica, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) - Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean, and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) are pleased to announce that the VII Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas and the Caribbean will be held next year in 2021.…
"The COVID-19 crisis is going to change how we work forever," stressed Rodney Martínez, World Meteorological Organization representative for North America, Central America and the Caribbean. “We cannot keep reflecting on the problems that continue to drag on for decades. One of the main challenges in the region is the dispersion and fragmentation…
14-PGM-UNISDR-37592-R-PANAMA CITY (X)
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This is an Extra Budgetary post. Extension of the appointment is subject to the availability of funds.
Org. Setting And Reporting
Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and Se…
Job opening number : 12-ADM-UNISDR-23079-R-RIO DE JANEIRO
Background
This position is located in the secretariat of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction ( UNISDR), Disaster Risk Reduction Centre of Excellence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The incumbent will report to the UN Resident Coordinator in Brazil and to the UNISDR Regi…
This report contains the baseline for public investment in disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change adaptation (CCA) for Peru and summarizes activities implemented for Peru in the context of the joint UNISDR project entitled: “Building capacities for increased public investment in integrated climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction…
RIO DE JANEIRO, 22 June 2012 - The largest UN summit ever organized closes today with an urgent worldwide call for accelerated implementation of the international blueprint for disaster risk reduction agreed by all UN member States seven years ago.
Against a backdrop of 1.3 million deaths, 4.4 billion people affected and $2 trillion in economic losses…
Background
The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is a multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder platform to enable societies to increase their resilience to natural, technological and environmental disasters and to reduce associated environmental, human, economic and social losses. A range of United Nations organizations and internati…