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Safe Havens: Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
… Safe Havens Protected Areas for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate … concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation … 74 Pioneering climate change adapted Marine Protected Area management in Madagascar Chapter 10 New …
Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… concerning the legal status of any country, territory, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation … practices such as integrated water resource management and protected area management must actively be integrated into … to recover their livelihood options. The Cham Islands Marine Protected Area of Viet Nam is highly exposed to …
World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 2: Five wetlands that help us cope with extreme weather events
… colonies of tiny coral polyps. Home to a quarter of all marine species, and providers of eco-tourism livelihoods, … US$ 1 million a year on restoring reefs at the Folkestone Marine Park on the west coast of Barbados could lower annual … floods, they can spread and store flood water over a wide area, reducing damage downstream. 4. Inland deltas When …
World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 1: Wetlands: A natural safeguard against disasters
… of time, we can designate flood- and storm-prone areas as protected wetlands to strengthen nature’s own buffer. The Biosphere Reserve of the Saloum Delta in Senegal is an area of estuaries, lakes and marshes. It controls flooding … Lanka where offshore coral reefs are protected through a marine park, the damage from the 2004 tsunami extended just …