Coastal climate impact analysis and sanitation hazard assessment framework
Explore this handbook for stepwise guidance on developing an adaptive action plan for ensuring the resilience of cities' sanitation services to the impacts of sea level rise. Planning for sea level rise is needed to ensure the future reliability of these services and upgrade neglected sanitation services.
COPE Books for Children: Storm Surges
Learn about risk reduction for storm surges in this illustrated book for children from COPE. This time the COPE squad travels to Hong Kong and the traditional fishing village of Tai O.
Climate change, ecosystem services and migration in the Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands experience severe climate impacts and high emigration rates. However, we do not know to what extent people migrate because of climate change. This paper addresses this gap.
Tanzania: Ecosystem-based Adaptation
Two projects were implemented to address adaptation needs in Dar-es-Salaam and the following coastal districts: Pangani, Rufiji, Bagamoyo, and Zanzibar.
HazardSupport: Risk-based decision support for adaptation to future natural hazards
Hazard Support aims to develop new methods for decision-makers and climate experts to tailor information about the impacts of climate change on natural hazards for adaptation decisions.
Climate Impacts on Food Security and Livelihoods in Asia
This report presents a summary of the latest available evidence of how climate change and food security interact, with specific examples from the Asia region.
Nigg Bay Nature Reserve
In response to sea-level rise, managed coastal realignment was undertaken in Nigg Bay, Scotland, allowing the saltmarsh to re-establish naturally.
Impacts of sea-level rise in Africa
The coast in Tanga, Tanzania. Image: ©steppestravel.co.uk
Impacts of sea-level rise in TanzaniaTanzania has a coastline of 3,461km and consists of mangrove forests...
Impacts of sea-level rise in Africa
Mahe Island, Seychelles: Image: © zszywka.pl
Impacts of sea-level rise in SeychellesThe Seychelles consist of over 100 islands of granitic and coralline origin...
Post-Sandy coastal protection
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy struck the east coast of the United States of America, damaging or destroying an estimated 300,000 homes and claiming 60 lives in the coastal areas of the State of...
Ecosystems
One of the main impacts will be the loss of the Sundarbans, the coastal mangroves on the Western coast, the habitat for several valuable species which act as a barrier against storm surge...
Flooding
Bangladesh is located on a floodplain of three major rivers and their tributaries. One-fifth of the country is flooded every year, with up to two-thirds in extreme years, due to...
