The Russian Federation's population
and economy are exposed to earthquakes and floods, with
floods posing the greater risk. Close to 75 percent of the
Russian Federation's...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114625Date: January 1, 2017
Azerbaijan's population and economy
are exposed to earthquakes and floods, with earthquakes
posing the greater risk of a high impact, lower probability
event. The model...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114751Date: January 1, 2017
GFDRR’s resilient recovery initiative is
involved in every major disaster, helping affected countries
assess damage as well as economic losses and needs, and
planning...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114427Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Leitmann,Josef Lloyd
Belarus' population and economy are
exposed to earthquakes and floods, with floods posing the
greater risk. The model results for present-day risk shown
in this risk...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114723Date: January 1, 2017
This brief is to support drought risk
reduction and decision-making to build resilience, an open
access and open source crop risk monitoring system, 4Crop,
has been...
Santa Catarina is exposed to recurrent
disaster events, among which floods play a major role. The
economic effects of such events as indicated by a historical
data base...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 115242Date: January 1, 2017
Pakistan's natural catastrophes
raise a major financing challenge: the losses from flooding
alone cost 3–4 percent of the federal budget, with losses
from natural disasters...
The objective of this report is to make
recommendations for the Government of Belize (GoB) for the
formulation of a country-specific comprehensive disaster
risk finance...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 125550Date: January 1, 2017
The Technical Deep Dive (TDD) on
Hydromet Services for Early Warning was held on September
12–15, 2016, in Tokyo. The TDD allowed developing country
clients to learn...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 123889Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Siercke,Guillermo A. ;
Newman,James P. ;
Jain,Vibhu
Global impacts of river floods are
substantial and rising, and the Indian subcontinent is no
exception due to population pressures and projected
increases in the South...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 113721Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Hopson,Thomas Moore ;
Lnu,Satya Priya
Greece's population and economy are
exposed to earthquakes and floods, with earthquakes posing
the greater risk of a high impact low probability event.
Just over sixty...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114759Date: January 1, 2017
Hungary's population and economy
are exposed to earthquakes and floods, with floods posing
the greater risk. About seventy percent of Hungary's
population lives in urban...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114760Date: January 1, 2017
Thousands of messages per hour are
shared on Twitter during flood events. These include early,
on-the-ground observations accessible in real-time. The
arguably lifesaving...
In conjunction with supporting the
expansion of financial inclusion through digital financial
services (DFS), it is important to ensure their
sustainability and reliability...
Type: PublicationReport#: 128218Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Denyes,Lesley Sarah ;
Lonie,Susie
Using three waves of survey data from
fishing villages in Aceh, Indonesia for 2005–09, we examine
the determinants of local volunteer labor after the tsunami.
Volunteer...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 129175Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Freire, J, Tiago ;
Henderson,John Vernon ;
Kuncoro,Ari
More than 1 billion people have lifted
themselves out of poverty in the past 15 years, but climate
and disaster risks threaten these achievements. Global asset
losses...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 118676Date: January 1, 2017
Located within the Pacific Ring of Fire,
a region of the Pacific Ocean where most of Earth’s volcanic
eruptions and earthquakes occur, and within the Pacific
Typhoon...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 118685Date: January 1, 2017
This new issue of the International
Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
caseload statistics provides an updated profile of the ICSID
caseload, historically...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 113333Date: December 31, 2016
Impact-based forecast and warning
services have been identified as a high priority by World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) members to increase the
relevance and utility...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114351Date: December 15, 2016
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