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

… nature, ensuring effective and equitable governance of its use, and deploying nature-based solutions to global … upwards towards disaster prevention and consequently sustainable development. This is the model used to promote … for DRR from 2005 to 2015. It recognised the importance of sustainable ecosystems and environmental management in …
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Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management

… tools to prevent and minimise disaster risk. However, the use of the ecosystem approach for disaster risk reduction … overall spiralling upwards, out of the cycle and towards sustainable development (RICS, 2009). The red circles … water and living resources that promotes conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way” and its principles were …
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The importance of adaptation and disaster risk reduction in coastal areas

… to adaptation and disaster risk reduction are the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services to help people to … services they provide to society; and h. where the use of hard engineering approaches is necessary, strongly …
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World Wetlands Day 2017 Factsheet 1: Wetlands: A natural safeguard against disasters

… in Senegal to restore degraded wetlands and to encourage sustainable agriculture, tourism and fishing practices. 2. …
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