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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

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...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

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...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

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...

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We are pleased to announce the 4th International Conference on Building Resilience, incorporating the 3rd Annual Meeting of the ANDROID Disaster Resilience Network. The conference is jointly...
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pakistan, Nepal

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...

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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...

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Date: Feb 2014

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...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

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...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Pakistan

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...

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Publisher(s): The Royal Society
Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

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...

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