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Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
… extensive coral mining degrades reefs, waves were 10 m high and damages and flooding were up to 1.5 km inland. … cyclonic floods. In the past, storm surges and high winds have caused enormous human and economic … Rising Sea, United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Seas Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. IPCC (2012). Managing the …
Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… 2016) 4141 services for DRR. The numerous benefits of high versus low biodiversity ecosystems have been well … of marine resources and climate change. Due to its high vulnerability to climate change effects, the region … Cameroon and of the Albertine Rift are considered areas of high biodiversity. Ecosystems provide important goods and …