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Web Sights
	ESCAP launches digitized version of intellectual history UN Peacekeeping 2013 Year in Review UNESCO Open Access Repository (OAR)
World Events
	Geneva Conference on Syria

Publications

Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: Towards Disaster Resilient Societies (Second Edition)

The text provides and combines practical examples from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe with theoretical and conceptual frameworks. It is key reading for all those interested in improving risk reduction and adaptation strategies to extreme events and gradual changes in the context of climate change and natural hazards. Measuring vulnerability and evaluating adaptation are essential prerequisites to strengthening the capacities of communities in building resilience through knowledge-based approaches.
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