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Insuring against natural disaster risk in Mexico: case study
World Bank, 2013This case study is part of World Bank Treasury's financial solutions in practice series. It introduces Mexico government's initiatives, which allowed the country to move from an ex-post response to natural disasters to an ex-ante preparedness approach, through: (i) the fund for natural disasters, to which it transfers budgetary funds for disaster relief and reconstruction efforts; and (ii) an institutional framework for disaster preparedness involving risk assessment, risk reduction, the promotion of a culture of prevention, and insurance.
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Available online: http://preventionweb.net/go/34926
Published by: World Bank ; 2013
This case study is part of World Bank Treasury's financial solutions in practice series. It introduces Mexico government's initiatives, which allowed the country to move from an ex-post response to natural disasters to an ex-ante preparedness approach, through: (i) the fund for natural disasters, to which it transfers budgetary funds for disaster relief and reconstruction efforts; and (ii) an institutional framework for disaster preparedness involving risk assessment, risk reduction, the promotion of a culture of prevention, and insurance.
The paper also features Mexican sub-national governments achievements in securing low-cost local currency financing from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and eliminating currency risk for themselves, the domestic development bank, and the federal government.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Hazard risk assessment or analysis ; Disaster Risk Financing, Disaster risk transfer ; Media ; Case/ Case study ; Mexico
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Using climate information to support adaptation planning and policy-making: A practical case study in Bagamoyo District, coastal Tanzania
This case study is designed to provide a practical example of how to use climate information to support adaptation planning and policy-making. The paper focuses on the Bagamoyo district in coastal Tanzania. Local livelihoods are mostly based on natural resources, including small-scale agriculture, seaweed farming, traditional fishing and small-scale eco-tourism. People living on the coast report that climate variability and climate change are affecting their lives due to factors such as unreliable timing and intensity of rainfall, major flooding and sea-level rise. These impacts have increased ...
Using climate information to support adaptation planning and policy-making: A practical case study in Bagamoyo District, coastal Tanzania
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Available online: http://www.sei-international.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Climate/weA [...]
Published by: SEI ; 2013
This case study is designed to provide a practical example of how to use climate information to support adaptation planning and policy-making. The paper focuses on the Bagamoyo district in coastal Tanzania. Local livelihoods are mostly based on natural resources, including small-scale agriculture, seaweed farming, traditional fishing and small-scale eco-tourism. People living on the coast report that climate variability and climate change are affecting their lives due to factors such as unreliable timing and intensity of rainfall, major flooding and sea-level rise. These impacts have increased villagers’ vulnerability to food and water scarcity, infrastructure damage, ill health and earnings losses.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Agroclimatology ; Food Safety ; Case/ Case study ; United Republic of Tanzania
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The Effectiveness of flood management
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM); Sayers and Partners - WMO, 2013This case study, which is a part of wider scope Tool “Effectiveness of Flood Management,” summarizes flood management approaches and policies adopted in England. The study introduces the national framework of flood management policies and the roles of flood related organizations. For better and efficient management, England has been taking a risk based approach to flood management for years, including systematic benefit cost analysis and project appraisal. Adaptive approach to cope with emerging climate change issues is also becoming a mainstream management strategy.
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Associated Programme on Flood Management ; Sayers and Partners
Published by: WMO ; 2013This case study, which is a part of wider scope Tool “Effectiveness of Flood Management,” summarizes flood management approaches and policies adopted in England. The study introduces the national framework of flood management policies and the roles of flood related organizations. For better and efficient management, England has been taking a risk based approach to flood management for years, including systematic benefit cost analysis and project appraisal. Adaptive approach to cope with emerging climate change issues is also becoming a mainstream management strategy.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Flood ; Disaster management ; Case/ Case study ; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Comparison of different rainfall inputs in a continuous rainfall-runoff model – a case study for Argentina
Buzzella Maria Mercedes; Institute of Water Resources Management, Hydrology and Agricultural Hydraulic Engineering - Leibniz Universität, 2013Precipitation data is the main input parameter in order to simulate rainfall-runoff processes, since it is strongly dependent on the accuracy of the spatial and temporal representation of the precipitation. In regions where rainfall stations are scarce, additional data sources may be considered necessary. In this manner, remote sensing from satellite platforms has provided a satisfactory alternative due to its global coverage. Although a wide range of satellite-based estimations of precipitation is available, not all the satellite products are suitable for all regions. Most of the studies perf ...
Comparison of different rainfall inputs in a continuous rainfall-runoff model – a case study for Argentina
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Maria Mercedes Buzzella ; Institute of Water Resources Management, Hydrology and Agricultural Hydraulic Engineering
Published by: Leibniz Universität ; 2013Precipitation data is the main input parameter in order to simulate rainfall-runoff processes, since it is strongly dependent on the accuracy of the spatial and temporal representation of the precipitation. In regions where rainfall stations are scarce, additional data sources may be considered necessary. In this manner, remote sensing from satellite platforms has provided a satisfactory alternative due to its global coverage. Although a wide range of satellite-based estimations of precipitation is available, not all the satellite products are suitable for all regions. Most of the studies performed with the purpose of evaluating their accuracy are focused in particular areas of the world. In this fashion, particular models have to be conducted in order to evaluate their performances, specially in regions with complex geography as high mountains.
Additionally, to perform an appropriate spatial representation of the rainfall and consequently to improve the available data, interpolation techniques are used, e.g. simple techniques as Nearest Neighbour or Inverse Distance methods, and some more complex as geostatistical (Kriging) methods. This last one offers the advantage of adding relevant additional information in the interpolation, providing a chance to compensate a low network density. Moreover, in data scarce regions in which interpolation schemes are applied, it becomes difficult to have an accurate performance assessment; in this manner, other comparison tool is required as rainfall-runoff models.
In this manner, the aim of this study is to perform a comparison between different types of available rainfall data by means of a hydrological model. The work is focused in Neuquén catchment, a mountainous region of Argentina where several rainfall stations and flow gauges are available. In this fashion, a satellite-based estimated precipitation already validated in mountainous areas and southern latitudes, CMORPH, is used as well as the available rainfall stations as input. Moreover, to improve the rainfall stations measurements, CMORPH data and topography are used during the interpolation as additional variables. Consequently, five precipitation input cases are generated and compared. To accomplish the main objective, at first several interpolation techniques are tested and assessed by means of cross-validation for each precipitation input. Subsequently, a hydrological model HEC-HMS is set up for every case and thus its outcomes are compared using indices of reliability.
Regarding the cases that consider the rainfall stations data, assess from the interpolation technique showed that the best performance is obtained with the case without external drift. Conversely, the hydrological model showed the most accurate precision when topography was used as additional information. Input cases with the satellite-based estimations as external drift improved considerably the results in comparison to the case in which rainfall stations are considered alone. However, results showed that the case with CMORPH data as only input, the estimation of the observed discharge was not able to be reproduced precisely. Finally it could be concluded that, in those cases in which the rainfall stations networks are not dense enough and do not represent the spatial variability of the area correctly additional information is extremely useful to simulate more accurately the observed discharge in the area.Notes: Supervisor: Ana Claudia Callaú Poduje
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Precipitation ; Hydrological data ; Case/ Case study ; Argentina
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The demography of adaptation to climate change
UNFPA, 2013The document consolidates the knowledge, methods, and practices that emerged from the 2010 expert group meeting entitled "Population Dynamics and Climate Change II: Building for Adaptation" organized by UNFPA, IIED and the Colegio de México in Mexico City.
It intends to catalyze action in global, national and local communities around a more informed, data driven adaptation process, and to bring together disparate disciplines, from environment science to planning to social science and beyond. The use of spatial data is at the core of this agenda.
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Available online: https://www.unfpa.org/publications/demography-adaptation-climate-change
Colegio de México, A.C. ; International Institute for Environment and Development ; United Nations Population Fund
Published by: UNFPA ; 2013The document consolidates the knowledge, methods, and practices that emerged from the 2010 expert group meeting entitled "Population Dynamics and Climate Change II: Building for Adaptation" organized by UNFPA, IIED and the Colegio de México in Mexico City.
It intends to catalyze action in global, national and local communities around a more informed, data driven adaptation process, and to bring together disparate disciplines, from environment science to planning to social science and beyond. The use of spatial data is at the core of this agenda.
It is divided into three sections: (i) population dynamics and adaptation, key concepts and perspectives; (ii) population data for adaptation, sources and methodologies; and (iii) the planning and practice of adaptation.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)ISBN (or other code): 978-0-89714-001-0
Tags: Climate change ; Adaptation ; Case/ Case study ; Urban zone ; Social and Economic development ; Malawi ; Viet Nam ; India ; Mexico ; Brazil
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New pathways to resistance: outcomes of the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa research and capacity building program 2006-2012
This report presents a brief and interactive summary of the Climate Change in Africa research and capacity program’s chief contributions. It provides a guided tour of the program’s efforts and legacy – its aims and means, the principal outcomes of the funding and mentoring it provided to African researchers, and the lessons it offers for future adaptation efforts in Africa and elsewhere. Throughout this report, there are links to programme and project resources, and directions for delving further into its scientific findings.
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Sierra Leone youth-led community-based disaster risk reduction
YCI, 2013This report summarizes lessons learnt from the Y Care International supported Sierra Leone YMCA project to carry out a disaster risk reduction (DRR) pilot project in two urban slum communities of Freetown in 2012. The project is a good example of youth participation in DRR, collaboration with other agencies, and learning through research on youth volunteerism. The aim of this pilot project was to learn the best ways of reducing the risk of disasters such as flooding and cholera in urban slum communities of Freetown through involving young people in preparing for, carrying out activities to red ...
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Guidebook - Increasing Climate Change Resilience of Urban Water Infrastructure : Based on a Case Study from Wuhan City, People’s Republic of China
ADB, 2013Th is guide describes a practical approach to bridge the gap between theoretical analyses of climate change impacts and the planning decisions that need to be made by city authorities and utility managers to increase climate change resilience of the water sector in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It focuses on answering the questions currently being asked by city planners and managers all over the world.
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A global urban risk index
Which cities have the highest risk of human and economic losses due to natural hazards? And how will urban exposure to major hazards change over the coming decades? This paper develops a global urban disaster risk index that evaluates the mortality and economic risks from disasters in 1,943 cities in developing countries. Concentrations of population, infrastructure, and economic activities in cities contribute to increased exposure and susceptibility to natural hazards. The three components of this risk measure are urban hazard characteristics, exposure, and vulnerability. For earthquakes, cy ...
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Pushing Through Reform: Lima's Disaster Risk Management Strategy | ELLA
Watanabe Masahiro - ELLA, 2013In recent years, there have been a number of important actions at the institutional level for promoting disaster risk management (DRM) in developing countries. Yet securing a city-level political commitment that ensures the required investment and specific action plans in big cities has remained a pending challenge. This Brief describes how the Municipality of Lima designed and implemented its Disaster Risk Management Strategy, in particular analysing how disaster risk management was successfully positioned through advocacy and communications efforts. This case highlights some particularly int ...
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Latin American experience in combining Disaster Risk Management with poverty reduction
Watanabe Masahiro - ELLA, 2013Extreme weather events have a direct impact on households' welfare, and in particular, the poorest, most socially excluded populations. Increasing frequency and intensity of disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes and flooding, is closely linked to the growing vulnerability of households and communities. Thus, the impacts of extreme events on poverty, income, consumption, health and education present a serious challenge to the well-being of these populations, and also produce negative long-term consequences for economic and social development across the region. In order to reduce the impact ...
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What are the roles of civil society in governing disaster reduction? Case study from national and local levels in Indonesia
This paper highlights evidence of disaster risk governance at national and local levels in Indonesia. Drawing upon the strength of social network approach, it specifically analyzes and presents the network of actors in disaster risk reduction policy reform in Indonesia where civil society plays vital roles. Two case studies are provided to exemplify the roles of civil society at local level. The paper concludes that disaster reduction policy reform at different levels in Indonesia have been equally coproduced by civil society, local governments, national government and international actors.
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Business and disaster risk reduction: good practices and case studies
UN/ISDR, 2013This publication contains 14 good practices and case studies that have been compiled by the Private Sector Advisory Group of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). Each of the 14 examples applies one or more of the five essentials for business in their pursuit of disaster risk reduction. It presents the various types of collaboration and cooperation, core to the all five essentials, that are positioned as critical in minimizing or potentially eliminating disasters as well as disasters’ effects on people, property and ultimately, the health, economy and resilience of wo ...
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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.
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Indigenous peoples and climate change in Africa : Case studies exploring climate change impacts on indigenous peoples in Namibia and their adaptation strategies
Through two participatory case studies, this paper examines the impact of climate change on the indigenous peoples of Namibia. The objectives of the case studies are three-fold: to document how the indigenous peoples are affected by climate change; to analyse how they perceive, adapt to and leverage opportunities from climate change; and provide recommendations for strengthening the indigenous peoples’ engagement in national and international public climate change policy.
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