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Africa - Making Development Climate Resilient : A World Bank Strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa
World Bank - 2012
This strategy for making development Climate-Resilient in Sub-Saharan Africa is the World Bank's operational response to climate variability and change on the continent. Grounded in a climate risk review of the Africa Region's sustainable development portfolio, it adds the climate change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550947
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Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance in Sub-Saharan Africa : Review and Options for Consideration
World Bank - 2012
This policy note is a preliminary effort to present a body of knowledge on the state of disaster risk financing and …-Saharan Africa on disaster risk financing and insurance, and to encourage open dialogue between stakeholders on how strategies can … actors in the international community with an interest in this agenda. In the context of this report, disaster risk financing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248021
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Climate change, disaster risk, and the urban poor : cities building resilience for a changing world
Baker, Judy L. (contributor) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393739
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Urban risk assessments : an approach for understanding disaster and climate risk in cities
2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011393774
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Social and governance dimensions of climate change : implications for policy
Foa, Roberto - 2009
institutional measures are tested for their potential effects on natural disaster resilience and the quality of environmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394233
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Overlooked : Examining the Impact of Disasters and Climate Shocks on Poverty in the Europe and Central Asia Region
World Bank - 2021
When a disaster strikes, it not only affects households' physical assets, but also their income levels and ability to … external assistance to accelerate reconstruction efforts. This report explores the links between disaster impacts and poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254838
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Learning from Tropical Cyclone Seroja : Building Disaster and Climate Resilience in Timor-Leste
World Bank - 2021
. The disaster affected all 13 municipalities of Timor-Leste, caused at least 44 fatalities, damaged critical infrastructure … as well as longer-term implications for disaster risk management. It will serve as inputs to a more detailed Post-Disaster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255397
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Building Resilience : Integrating Climate and Disaster Risk into Development
World Bank - 2014
This report presents the World Bank Group's experience in climate and disaster resilient development and contends that … collaboration between the climate resilience and disaster risk management communities through the incorporation of climate and … disaster resilience into broader development processes. Selected case studies are used to illustrate promising approaches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560464
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Building Resilience to Disaster and Climate Change through Social Protection
World Bank - 2014
Natural disasters and climate change are among the greatest threats to development. Although natural disasters have always presented risks, climate change increases those risks and compounds them by adding a greater level of uncertainty. As a result of their increased frequency, the economic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560607
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Building Resilience : Integrating Climate and Disaster Risk into Development, The World Bank Group Experience
World Bank - 2014
This report presents the World Bank Group's experience in climate and disaster resilient development and contends that … collaboration between the climate resilience and disaster risk management communities through the incorporation of climate and … disaster resilience into broader development processes. Selected case studies are used to illustrate promising approaches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560657