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Pakreport: Crowdsourcing for Multipurpose and Multicategory Climate related Disaster Reporting

Sunday, February 12 2012 / Eldis

This case study focuses on Pakreport, an ICT initiative between crisis mapping organisations, engineers, relief agencies and crowdsourcing companies that ...

Role of ICTs in Early Warning of Climate Related Disasters: A Sri Lankan Case Study

Sunday, February 12 2012 / Eldis

Climate change is now increasing – and will further increase in future – both the frequency and intensity of natural disasters in Sri Lanka ...

Using Mobile Phones to Reduce the Adversities of Climate Change in Rural Nepal

Sunday, February 12 2012 / Eldis

The initiative described in this case is part of a disaster risk reduction project implemented by Practical Action in Nepal, financially supported by ...

Factsheet No. 1/2011: A Social Contract for Sustainability

Friday, February 10 2012 / Eldis

The social contract for the transformation to a sustainable society proposed by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) combines responsibility ...

Factsheet No. 3 / 2011: Global Megatrends

Friday, February 10 2012 / Eldis

Humankind has become a dominant factor within the Earth System. Indeed, some researchers have coined the term Anthropocene ('The Age of Man'). ...

Forest Community Schools: A child-centered strategy for mitigating leakage in REDD+

Friday, February 10 2012 / Eldis

By 2025, children who are 18 years or younger today will represent more than half of the world's workforce. A critical strategic opportunity exists ...

Reading between the lines – what the Durban text means for REDD+ in 2012

Friday, February 10 2012 / Overseas Development Institute - Theme: Climate Change

'During the calm weeks following the storm of negotiations in Durban we have had an opportunity to assess what all 36 decisions that came out of the conference will really

Monitoring and evaluating climate change and disaster risk reduction

Thursday, February 9 2012 / Eldis

This working paper is a methodological contribution to the emerging debate on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in the context of climate change adaptation ...

Using cost-benefit analysis to analyse community based disaster risk management projects

Thursday, February 9 2012 / Eldis

This study provides a systematic cost-benefit analysis of a community-based disaster risk management project led by Practical Action in two districts ...

Using indicators to communicate risk

Thursday, February 9 2012 / Eldis

In order to improve disaster risk understanding and disaster risk management performance in Latin America and the Caribbean a transparent, representative ...

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