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Building Resilience to climate change - Ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field
… practice. IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization, with more than 1,000 government … Beck, The Nature Conservancy, USA Joost Brouwer, Brouwer Environmental & Agricultural Consultancy, The Netherlands … in the High Mountain Ecosystem of Colombia l 29 l Storm damage from water or wind is one of the impacts of climate …
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 …