All pages with keywords: adaptation

Response to European Commission’s green paper on the insurance of natural and man-made disasters
of key points Insurance is one tool amongst others in a holistic natural disaster risk management strategy. Risk transfer alone, without consideration of risk reduction efforts, is not a … read more »

Vulnerability to weather disasters: the choice of coping strategies in rural Uganda
When a natural disaster hits, the affected households try to cope with its impacts. A variety of coping strategies, from reducing current consumption to disposing of productive assets, may … read more »

