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Member Report Lao PDR [on Tropical Cyclones in 2018]
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee
2018
This report details the effects of tropical cyclones in Lao PDR in 2018 which includes Meteorological Assessment, Hydrological Assessment, Socio-Economic Assessment, Regional Co...
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Lao PDR Disaster Management Reference Handbook 2014
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance
2014
This handbook brings together important information about disaster management and response in Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR). Based on extensive research and analysis of...
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Lao PDR National Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (2012)
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
National Disaster Management Office
2012
The Lao National Assessment report on disaster risk reduction in 2012 is the key output of the implementation of the project Strengthen Institutional Capacity for Development of...
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Cambodia atlas of gender and environment
Cambodia
Books and book chapters
The Asia Foundation
2018
In 2017, the Asia Foundation initiated the “Atlas of Gender and Environment” project to provide a more in-depth understanding of how gender informs environment-related vulnerabi...
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Humanitarian Response Forum (HRF) situation report No. 03
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Humanitarian Response Forum (HRF)
2013
This report is produced by the Humanitarian Response Forum (HRF), a network of United Nations (UN), non-government organizations (NGOs), and international organizations (IOs) en...
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Cambodia post-flood relief and recovery survey
Cambodia
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
World Food Programme, National Committee for Disaster Management
2012
There are two main objectives of the Cambodia post-flood relief and recovery survey. Firstly, the survey implementation intends to collect timely information on household and in...
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Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies in Asia and the Pacific
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
UNESCAP, ADB, UNDP
2018
People across the Asia-Pacific region live with diverse and interlinked risks. These risks are related to increasingly severe and complex shocks to the political, social, econom...
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Building Resiliency in the Pacific: How ADB is Addressing Climate Change and Disaster Risks
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Asian Development Bank
2017
The Pacific operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) cover 14 developing member countries (DMCs). These countries have established national policies and institutions to ad...
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Assessing Financial Protection against Disasters: A Guidance Note on Conducting a Disaster Risk Finance Diagnostic
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
The World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Swiss Confederation, GFDRR
2017
The World Bank and Asian Development Bank have worked in more than 50 countries to (i) quantify the economic and fiscal impact of disasters; (ii) take stock of existing mechanis...
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Greater Mekong Subregion Core Environment Program: Strategic Framework and Action Plan 2018-2022
Cambodia, China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
GMS Environment Operations Center
2017
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) remains on a steady trajectory of economic growth and poverty reduction. This trend is expected to accelerate following the establishment of t...
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Unbreakable: Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters
Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Timor-Leste, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Korea, Republic of, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Stephane Hallegatte, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Mook Bangalore, Julie Rozenberg
2017
This report moves beyond asset and production losses and focuses instead on how natural disasters affect people’s well-being. Here, natural disaster risk and losses are measured...
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Promoting Sustainable Development Through Disaster Risk Management
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Charlotte Benson
2016
Despite considerable advances in disaster risk management (DRM) understanding and know-how over the past few decades, there has been no evidence of a long-term decline in loss o...
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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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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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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...