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Tropical Cyclone Pam: lessons learned workshop report
Vanuatu - Gov, 2015This report summarises the discussions and outcomes from the national debriefing workshop to identify lessons learned following Tropical Cyclone Pam (TC Pam). It reviews key aspects of coordination, including preparation, response and recovery.
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Available online: http://preventionweb.net/go/46477
Published by: Vanuatu - Gov ; 2015
This report summarises the discussions and outcomes from the national debriefing workshop to identify lessons learned following Tropical Cyclone Pam (TC Pam). It reviews key aspects of coordination, including preparation, response and recovery.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Disaster Risk Management (DRM) ; Cyclone ; Vanuatu
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Better laws, safer communities? Emerging themes on how legislation can support disaster risk reduction
IFRC, 2013This short pamphlet sets out some preliminary findings from a 2-year comparative study of legislation for disaster risk reduction in 26 countries.
Better laws, safer communities? Emerging themes on how legislation can support disaster risk reduction
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Available online: http://www.ifrc.org/PageFiles/49635/IFRC_better-laws-safer-communities_2013.pdf
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Published by: IFRC ; 2013This short pamphlet sets out some preliminary findings from a 2-year comparative study of legislation for disaster risk reduction in 26 countries.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Capacity development ; Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) ; Legislation ; Case/ Case study ; Angola ; Ethiopia ; Albania ; Italy ; Kazakhstan ; Nepal ; Ukraine ; Austria ; Brazil ; China ; Guatemala ; India ; Madagascar ; Nicaragua ; Nigeria ; United States of America ; Vanuatu ; Viet Nam ; Algeria ; Australia ; Colombia ; Dominican Republic ; Ecuador ; Indonesia ; Namibia ; New Zealand ; Peru ; Philippines ; Saint Lucia ; Uruguay
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Disaster response and climate change in the Pacific: country reports
Gero Anna; National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF); University of Technology - NCCARF, 2013This research paper examines the nexus between disasters, human health, and climate change in the Pacific in order determine methods of effective disaster response in a changing climate to enhance long term adaptive capacity. The aim of this paper is to identify gaps in post-disaster support and to disseminate information regarding those gaps among policy-makers so as to establish a society more resilient to disaster.
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Available online: http://preventionweb.net/go/32882
Anna Gero ; National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility ; University of Technology (Sydney)
Published by: NCCARF ; 2013This research paper examines the nexus between disasters, human health, and climate change in the Pacific in order determine methods of effective disaster response in a changing climate to enhance long term adaptive capacity. The aim of this paper is to identify gaps in post-disaster support and to disseminate information regarding those gaps among policy-makers so as to establish a society more resilient to disaster.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Capacity development ; Climate change ; Disaster Risk Management (DRM) ; Food Safety ; Water ; Australia ; Cook Islands ; Fiji ; Samoa ; Vanuatu ; Region V - South-West Pacific
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Disaster response and climate change in the Pacific
Gero Anna; National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF); University of Technology - NCCARF, 2013This research paper examines the nexus between disasters, human health, and climate change in the Pacific in order determine methods of effective disaster response in a changing climate to enhance long term adaptive capacity. The aim of this paper is to identify gaps in post-disaster support and to disseminate information regarding those gaps among policy-makers so as to establish a society more resilient to disaster.
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Available online: http://preventionweb.net/go/32881
Anna Gero ; National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility ; University of Technology (Sydney)
Published by: NCCARF ; 2013This research paper examines the nexus between disasters, human health, and climate change in the Pacific in order determine methods of effective disaster response in a changing climate to enhance long term adaptive capacity. The aim of this paper is to identify gaps in post-disaster support and to disseminate information regarding those gaps among policy-makers so as to establish a society more resilient to disaster.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Capacity development ; Climate change ; Disaster Risk Management (DRM) ; Food Safety ; Water ; Australia ; Cook Islands ; Fiji ; Samoa ; Vanuatu ; Region V - South-West Pacific
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Health impacts of climate change in Vanuatu: an assessment and adaptation action plan: In Global Journal of Health Science; Vol. 5, No. 3; 2013
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a tool for analysing potential health issues during planning stages of proposals using established systematic mechanisms to demonstrate factors that could affect health and to consider potential response options. This study used the HIA framework to consider potential health impacts of climate change on the population of Vanuatu, to assess the risks and propose adaptive responses. The HIA process involved the participation of a broad range of stakeholders including expert sector representatives in the areas of biophysics, socioeconomics, infrastructure, enviro ...
Health impacts of climate change in Vanuatu: an assessment and adaptation action plan: In Global Journal of Health Science; Vol. 5, No. 3; 2013
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Available online: http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/gjhs/article/download/22857/15450
Published by: Canadian Center of Science and Education ; 2013
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a tool for analysing potential health issues during planning stages of proposals using established systematic mechanisms to demonstrate factors that could affect health and to consider potential response options. This study used the HIA framework to consider potential health impacts of climate change on the population of Vanuatu, to assess the risks and propose adaptive responses. The HIA process involved the participation of a broad range of stakeholders including expert sector representatives in the areas of biophysics, socioeconomics, infrastructure, environmental diseases and food. The risk associated with each of the impacts was assessed with the application of a qualitative process that considered both the consequences and the likelihood of each of the potential health impacts occurring. Adaptation strategies and actions were developed to mitigate the identified health impacts and provide response options for the various sectors in Vanuatu.
Language(s): English; Other Languages: French, Spanish
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate ; Climate change ; Human health ; Adaptation ; Vanuatu
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Weaving a culture of resilience, a gender-sensitive approach to disaster risk reduction in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands
This document reports on a research aiming at a more gender-sensitive approach to disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. It gives insight on the situations in which women and men, girls and boys live in three selected communities in both countries. It provides information about their local behaviour patterns, belief and value systems, their daily life routines etc. - all necessary information to adapt ongoing and plan future DRR measures in this specific context.
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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.
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Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the Pacific : an institutional and policy analysis
Hay John E.; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR); et al. - UN/ISDR, 2012This study provides an analysis of the current level of integration of DRR and CCA in the region, with an emphasis on the policy and institutional environment. The report outlines some of the barriers to integration and makes recommendations on how they can be addressed. The analysis presented includes seven PICs (Cook Islands, FSM, Fiji, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu).The countries analysed are typical in terms of the current low level of integration of DRR and CCA.This report also explores how and why the fields of DRR and CCA have developed in parallel globally as well as in the Pacific, ...
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Climate change in the Pacific: scientific assessment and new research - Volume 2: Country Reports
Climate Change in the Pacific is a rigorously researched, peer-reviewed scientific assessment of the climate of the western Pacific region. Building on the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this two volume publication represents a comprehensive resource on the climate of the Pacific.
Volume 2 presents individual country reports which provide country-specific projections and relevant climate information.
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Remarks on the Occasion of the Celebration of the World Meteorological Day by the Vanuatu National Meteorological Service
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