United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction ; World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; European Commission
Published by: WMO, UN/ISDR ; 2012This brochure describes; (i) UNISDR and WMO's joint programme Building resilience to disasters in the Western Balkans and Turkey; (ii) its objectives, in line with the priorities set by the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 - Building resilience of nations and communities to disasters; (iii) the project activities, which focus on disaster risk reduction capacity building, knowledge management and disaster risk transfer and community based disaster management for UNISDR, and on risk assessment, meteorological and hydrological forecast, enabling climate risk management in decision-making, and designing a region-wide harmonized early warning system for WMO.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)
Tags: Capacity development ; Hazard risk assessment or analysis ; Early warning systems ; Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) ; Climate change ; Albania ; Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Croatia ; Montenegro ; Republic of North Macedonia ; Serbia ; Türkiye Add tag