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The year of recurring disasters: a review of natural disasters in 2012
This report examines four topics: (i) disasters in 2012, with a focus on recurring disasters; (ii) the role of regional organizations in disaster risk management; (iii) wildfires; and (iv) the important role of women in disaster risk management. It highlights the value given by governments and other actors in working together to prevent disasters and, to a lesser extent, to respond to disasters occurring in the region. It also features the development of strong regional initiatives and different mechanisms for encouraging collaboration, including frameworks for disaster risk reduction, regiona ...
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Fragile States 2013: Resource flows and trends in fragile states
By 2015, half of the world’s people living on less than USD 1.25 a day will be in fragile states. While poverty has decreased globally, progress on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 is slower in fragile states than in other developing countries. Fragile states are also off-track to meet the rest of the MDGs by 2015.
Fragile situations became a central concern of the international development and security agenda in the 1990s. Since then, powerful forces have been influencing the causes and manifestations of fragility, including the combination of democratic aspirations, new te ...
Climate vulnerability monitor
DARA, 2012The Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2nd Edition reveals that climate change has already held back global development and inaction is a leading global cause of death. Harm is most acute for poor and vulnerable groups but no country is spared either the costs of inaction or the benefits of an alternative path.
Commissioned by the world’s most vulnerable countries and backed by high-level and technical panels, the new Monitor estimates human and economic impacts of climate change and the carbon economy for 184 countries in 2010 and 2030, across 34 indicators.
Ocean-Based Food Security Threatened in a High CO2 World : a Ranking of Nations’ Vulnerability to Climate Change and Ocean Acidification
Emissions from human activities are changing the ocean’s chemistry and temperature in ways that threaten the livelihoods of those who depend on fish and seafood for all or part of their diets. The changes may reduce the amount of wild caught seafood that can be supplied by the oceans and also redistribute species, changing the locations at which seafood can be caught and creating instability for ocean-based food security, or seafood security. This report ranks nations based on the seafood security hardships they may experience by the middle of this century due to changing ocean conditions from ...
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The Drying of Iran's Lake Urmia and its Environmental Consequences
UNEP, 2012Lake Urmia in the northwestern corner of Iran is one of the largest permanent hypersaline lakes in the world and the largest lake in the Middle East (1,2,3). It extends as much as 140 km from north to south and is as wide as 85 km east to west during high water periods (4). The lake was declared a Wetland of International Importance by the Ramsar Convention in 1971 and designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1976 (5,6). The lake itself is home to a unique brine shrimp species, Artemia urmiana, and along with the surrounding wetlands and upland habitat, it supports many species of reptiles, am ...
World Meteorological Organization Bulletin - Women working in meteorology and hydrology : articles re-printed from Vol.52 No.2
Contains:
- The Bulletin Interviews: Sulochana Gadgil
- Participation of women in the activities of WMO: results of the 2001 survey
- Women working in meteorology and hydrology: a survey
- Women, disaster reduction and sustainable development
- The role of women in water management- global trends and lessons learnt
- Women and the future of meteorology
- Working in aid programmes in Sudan and the Caribbean- a woman's perspective
- Bringing climate information to rural women in Africa
- The role of Filipino women in natural disaste ...
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Address at the opening of the International Specialized Training Courses at the Regional Meteorological Training Centre, Tehran
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Pioneers in Meteorology in I.R. of Iran: three generations - On the occasion of IMO Prize 2001 for Dr. M. H. Ganji
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; I.R. of Iran Meteorological Organization (IRIMO) - WMO, 2001
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Statement on the occasion of the second session of the Coordinating Committee on Caspian Sea Hydrometeorology and Pollution Monitoring
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Второй сессии координационного комитета по гидрометеорологии и мониторингу загрязнения каспийского моря
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Contribution à l'hydrologie scientifique en 1000 apr. J.C. : par le mathématicien iranien M.H. Karadji
Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM); International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) - OMM, 1974
Final report of the Meeting of Experts on Tropical Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Economic Commission for Asia and the far East (ECAFE) - WMO, 1970
CAgM. A study of agroclimatology in semi-arid and arid zones of the Near East
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Wallén C.C.; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); et al. - WMO, 1963 (WMO-No. 141)
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