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Promoting ecosystems for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: Opportunities for integration (discussion paper)

This paper seeks to highlight the differences and commonalit...

Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction (GAR) 2015: Making development sustainable: The future of disaster risk management

The fourth edition of the United Nations Global Assessment R...

The role of ecosystems in disaster risk reduction

Each year we witness strikingly similar images of loss and d...

Far away, so close: A legal analysis of the increasing interactions between the convention on biological diversity and climate change law

It has become increasingly inaccurate to refer to a “misma...

The Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction Case Study and Exercise Source Book

In 2013, the UN Environment and Center for Natural Resources...

Climate change adaptation strategies and disaster risk reduction in cities: Connections, contentions, and synergies

This paper reviews how the fields of disaster risk reduction...

Coasts at risk: An assessment of coastal risks and the role of environmental solutions

Coastal development and climate change are rapidly changing ...

Connecting biodiversity and climate change mitigation and adaptation: Report of the second ad hoc technical expert group on biodiversity and climate change (Montreal, Canada: Technical Series No. 41)

The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and the...

Ecosystem-based adaptation: A natural response to climate change

Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) integrates the use of biodi...

Natural solutions: Protected areas helping people cope with climate change

Climate change poses an unprecedented level of threat to lif...

Using ecosystem-based adaptation actions to tackle food insecurity

Headlines of late have focused on the worst drought in decad...

Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation: Progress and challenges

Resilient ecosystems are vital to human well-being and are i...

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