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Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

… practice. IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization, with more than 1,200 government … 116 Human perturbation and environmental governance of the coastal lagoon of A … that if countries are doing effective DRR, the loss and damage from each disaster reduces every time, which enables …
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Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management

… recovery and reconstruction phase following a disaster can damage ecosystems and exacerbate existing vulnerabilities. It is thus important to integrate environmental management into post-disaster activities • … society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts which exceeds the ability of …
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World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 1: Wetlands: A natural safeguard against disasters

… weather- related disasters caused US$3.3 trillion in damage between 1980 and 2014. Using wetlands to minimize the damage from disasters Defined as land areas that are flooded … to a community or nation in human, material, economic or environmental losses. © U N EP © U N EP © J oy ln T y #Wet …
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