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This paper therefore presents two main levels of analysis. The first level reports what
academic research says is happening about climate change and violent conflict. The second
level...
This book is a unique compilation of state-of-the-art vulnerability assessment and is essential reading for academics, policy students, practitioners, makers, and anybody else interested in...
This Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) impartially assesses the scientific literature on the potential role of renewable energy in the mitigation of...
Nepal and Pakistan face a triple challenge of political instability, weak governance and vulnerability to
climate change. Communities are highly vulnerable to floods, landslides and droughts...
Active volcanoes are dynamically evolving structures, the life-cycles of which are punctuated by episodes of flank instability and lateral failure. Such behaviour is now recognised as ubiquitous...
The consequences of living in hazard-prone areas were brought home by graphic television coverage of the hurricanes that devastated the Gulf coast of the USA in 2005. Hurricane Katrina, in...
The Checklist-Based Guide to Identifying Critical Environmental Considerations in Emergency Shelter Site Selection, Construction, Management and Decommissioning provides an easy-to-use tool to...
Pakistan is a particularly relevant case study for
the research into the role of the affected state in
humanitarian action. It has suffered from two
major natural disasters...
This document identifies and analyses the global risks which arise from extreme geophysical events. 'On a vast scale, global geophysical events (GGEs) are natural phenomena capable of having...