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The importance of adaptation and disaster risk reduction in coastal areas
… importance of adaptation and disaster risk reduction in coastal areas RECOGNIZING that nearly half of the human population lives in coastal areas, that coastlines contain more than two-thirds … to adaptation and disaster risk reduction are the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services to help people to adapt …
Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
… 33 Coastal ecosystems in Kouchibouguac National Park of Canada: … 83 Potential roles for coastal protected areas in disaster risk reduction and … based disaster risk reduction, it is an approach that uses biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of a holistic …
Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Japan Biodiversity Fund and the Convention on Biological Diversity … destruction wrought by a disaster. And flooded coastal villages and washed away beaches whose natural … disasters. In South East Asia, wide-scale clearing of coastal mangrove forests for aquaculture production together …