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Disaster Risk in Asia and the Pacific Assessment, Management and Finance
Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Asian Development Bank
2016
Globalization and technology deepen value chains and production networks to the great benefit of producers and consumers—both domestic and foreign. But it also means that, above...
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Remote sensing applications to drought risk management
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Vivarad Phonekeo, Ph.D., Thatheva Saphangthong, Ph.D
2016
A presentation overviewing remote sensing data collection methods and their applicability for drought risk management.
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Law on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control
Viet Nam
33/2013/QH13
Law
July 13, 2013
This Law legislates on natural disaster prevention and control activities; the rights and obligations of those engaged in natural disaster prevention and control activities; and...
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Who suffers most from extreme weather events? Weather-related loss events in 2013 and 1994 to 2013
Cambodia, Viet Nam, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
S. Kreft, D. Eckstein, L. Junghans, C. Kerestan and U. Hagen
2014
According to the Climate Risk Index, less developed countries are generally more affected than industrialised countries. The countries affected most in 2013 were the Philippines...
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Climate smart community based disaster risk reduction in the Mekong, Vietnam
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Australian Red Cross,German Red Cross,Vietnam Red Cross
2012
A project design for Vietnam Red Cross to address climate smart community-based disaster risk reduction. The document contains an analysis of the situation, existing Red Cross a...
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Natural disasters in the Lower Mekong 1990-2015
Cambodia, Viet Nam, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Myanmar
April 8, 2016
Source: EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database –...
This dataset was built from search criteria on the EM-DAT database to find the number of floods, storms, droughts and earthquakes per years int he five Lower Mekong countries. ...
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Deaths from natural disasters in the Lower Mekong 1990-2015
Cambodia, Viet Nam, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Myanmar
April 8, 2016
Source: EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database –...
Data for the visualization published on the OD Mekong Disasters and emergency response page (https://opendevelopmentmekong.net/topics/disasters-and-emergency-response/). It show...
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Flood management and development planning, the allocation of risk
Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Reis, Nadine
2007
This paper aims to review current flood management in relation to the long-term development planning in Vietnam. The report discusses perceptions of flood risk and how these per...
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Assessing institutional capacities for flood disaster risk reduction
Cambodia, Viet Nam, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Myanmar, China
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Lebel, Louis
Floods are the most frequent and devastating natural disasters in the Asian region. Their impact has grown in spite of our improved ability to monitor and describe them. This p...
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Risk-sensitive development in Asia, 12th meeting of the Regional Consultative Committee (RCC) on Disaster Management
Thailand, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Christmas Island, Timor-Leste, Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Conference/workshop proceedings and presentations
Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management
2015
Proceedings of the 12th Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management, held 16-18 June 2015 in Bhutan. This document provides background on the RCC, disaster risk reduc...
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The human cost of weather related disasters 1995-2015
Cambodia, Viet Nam, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Myanmar, China
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters; UNISDR
2015
This report presents an analysis of global weather-related disaster trends over a twenty year time-frame, and highlights the need for a new climate change agreement from the...