Risk assessment

Les récentes initiatives mondiales en matière de restauration d’écosystèmes offrent une opportunité sans précédent d’améliorer la conservation de la biodiversité ainsi que la santé et le bien-être humains. Les écosystèmes constituent une composante essentielle de la biodiversité. Ils offrent aux personnes de multiples  avantages : un climat stable et un air respirable, de l’eau, de la nourriture et des matériaux, ainsi qu’une protection contre les catastrophes et les maladies.

Las recientes iniciativas mundiales de restauración de ecosistemas ofrecen una oportunidad sin precedentes para mejorar la conservación de la biodiversidad y la salud y el bienestar humanos. de la biodiversidad. Proporcionan a los seres humanos múltiples beneficios: un clima estable y un aire respirable; agua, alimentos y materiales; y protección contra desastres y enfermedades.

Recent global initiatives in ecosystem restoration offer an unprecedented opportunity to improve biodiversity conservation and human health and well-being. Ecosystems form a core component of biodiversity. They provide humans with multiple benefits – a stable climate and breathable air; water, food and materials; and protection from disaster and disease.

This Atlas comprise general information about natural calamities, main entities facing the threat (e.g. buildings, population, GDP), various types of vulnerabilities (physical, social, ecological, economic) and risks typical to Georgia’s territory. This atlas was produced in the project “Institutional building for natural disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Georgia”, implemented by the Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN) and Faculty of Geo Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente (ITC), The Netherlands.

This book addresses both risk management at a startup, beginning at the mission statement, and for existing nonprofits that may be at risk due to inappropriate policies, or lack thereof, proper procedures and risk abatement planning. Risk management policies including oversite of financial transactions, purchasing, hiring, volunteer management, insurance and more are discussed. The book progresses through risk identification, risk communication, and financial risk.

These guidelines aim to assist policy makers and managers in the reduction of the risks to coastal communities, their infrastructure and service-providing ecosystems from tsunamis, storm surges and other coastal hazards within the phased framework of Integrated Coastal Area Management (ICAM).

This introductory guide draws on a number of key IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) papers, case studies and background documents to provide a practical introduction to the RLE. It targets those who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the RLE as a risk assessment tool and those who wish to learn more about its possible applications in implementing conservation action.

This report is a systematic and comprehensive study of the status of glacial lakes in Nepal and an assessment of the hazard they pose and of the vulnerability of downstream people and property. The report concludes by proposing some preliminary steps for development of a national strategy for response to the hazard, and emphasizing the need for applying the experience obtained towards initiation of a region-wide international response.