Documents et rapports
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Addressing climate risk : the Sri Lanka Climate Resilience Program (anglais)
Sri Lanka is highly vulnerable to natural hazards and has embarked on a comprehensive disaster risk management program to reduce the adverse impacts of climate change and to adapt the stock of infrastructure...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 87531 Date du document: 1 avril 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Working together for identifying disaster risk in Pakistan (anglais)
While the entire country is vulnerable to natural hazards, there has yet to be a national level risk assessment of Pakistan which is considered as the first step to enable the government to prioritize...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 82510 Date du document: 1 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Indian state comes to Mexico to learn and share experiences about green growth and climate change : South-South exchange program : Funcionarios indios visitan Mexico para estudiar y compartir experiencias en torno al crecimiento verde y el cambio climatico (espagnol)
In September 2012, the World Bank approved a 100 million dollars Development Policy Loan (DPL) for the state of Himachal Pradesh (HP), India to support its transformation to green development. The exchange...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 80468 Date du document: 8 juillet 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Indian state comes to Mexico to learn and share experiences about green growth and climate change : South-South exchange program (anglais)
In September 2012, the World Bank approved a 100 million dollars Development Policy Loan (DPL) for the state of Himachal Pradesh (HP), India to support its transformation to green development. The exchange...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 80468 Date du document: 1 juillet 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Learning from the Pakistan experience of post-2005 earthquake rural housing reconstruction (anglais)
The earthquake that struck northern parts of Pakistan on the morning of October 8, 2005 left widespread destruction in its wake. It killed over 73,000 people and left more than 2.8 million in need of shelter...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79740 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Probabilistic modeling for disaster risk management for Bogota, Colombia : Modelacion probabilista para la gestion del riesgo de desastre el caso de Bogota, Colombia (espagnol)
This brief states that the intense impact of earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and other hazardous events on the vulnerable communities throughout the world highlights the socio-natural character risk that...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 81164 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Disaster risk management in South Asia : a regional overview (anglais)
The increased frequency and intensity of disaster events is well documented and understood by most stakeholders across the world. Governments, international institutions, nonprofit organizations, and the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 80146 Date du document: 1 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Disaster risk management and cultural heritage in Bhutan (anglais)
Many of Bhutan's cultural heritage sites, such as dzongs (fortresses), monasteries, and stupas (relic mounds), are today in active use virtually as they have for centuries, constituting what is known as...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 79763 Date du document: 1 avril 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Metro Colombo Urban Development Project : transforming Colombo into a flood resilient middle income country capital (anglais)
The Colombo metropolitan area is Sri Lanka's commercial hub and accounts for almost 50 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). However, Colombo is highly vulnerable to flooding, and has...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 77904 Date du document: 4 mars 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project for Orissa : application of GIS for cyclone risk mitigation infrastructure (anglais)
India is highly vulnerable to natural hazards, particularly earthquakes, flood, drought, cyclone and landslides. In the last decade, India has seen some major disasters including the Bhuj earthquake in...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 76324 Date du document: 1 février 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Emergency Tsunami Reconstruction Project in Tamil Nadu, India (anglais)
Coastal Tamil Nadu, one of the most densely populated regions of the world, is facing major issues of sea level variation, shoreline erosion, salt water intrusion, and degradation of mangroves and existing...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 76323 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Management of slope stability in communities (MoSSaiC) in Saint Lucia (anglais)
In many developing countries, landslide risk is increasing as unauthorized housing is built on already landslide prone hill-slopes surrounding urban areas. This risk accumulation is driven by growing population...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 78723 Date du document: 1 décembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Bihar Kosi Flood Recovery Project : owner driven housing reconstruction (anglais)
The Kosi River rises in the Tibetan plateau of China and flows across Nepal into Bihar, joining the Ganges near Kursela, India. On 18th August 2008, the Kosi breached its embankments at Kusaha in Nepal’s...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 76316 Date du document: 1 décembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Building climate resilience in the Eastern Caribbean : regional disaster vulnerability reduction program (anglais)
The increasing pace of climate change will continue tohave negative impacts on the people, environments,and economies of the Eastern Caribbean islands. Risingsea levels, increasing influx of hurricanes...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 113537 Date du document: 1 juillet 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed