Evidence, monthly UNISDR newsletter: issue 06, March 2012
This monthly newsletter highlights UNISDR activities around the world. This issue reports on: (i) the start of consultations on a new international blueprint for reducing disaster losses in advance of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction; (ii) the Sixth World Water Forum's disaster risk reduction (DRR) pledge; (iii) private sector's risk revolution; (iv) the drought situation in the Horn of Africa; and (v) Kiribati's climate change insurance. It also contains news stories on major events related to DRR and features a chart illustrating the economic and human impacts of disasters in the last 12 years.
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Hazards
Drought
Themes
Climate change
Private sector
Insurance and risk transfer
Governance
Economics of DRR
Water
Social impacts and social resilience
Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Country and region
Kiribati
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Number of pages
4 p.
Publication Year
2012