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Henry David Venema, IISD's Director of Sustainable Natural Resources Management and Water Innovation Centre looks at what lessons Manitoba's 2009 Red River flood offers and discusses how building resilience to future floods requires that we make a

Scientists, sociologists, environmentalists, and representatives of international organisations explored measures to ensure sustainable development of the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta at a meeting held in Can Tho, in early June...

Livestock could be critical to survival of African agriculture as hotter weather and rainfall patterns shift, says new study. Adaptation to climate change will be discussed at the Global Platform...

This report on African geopolitical risk was released for the World Economic Forum on Africa (Cape Town, South Africa, 4-6 June 2008). It identifies and explores trends, potential impacts and mitigation relevant to four key risks facing Africa. These

Five-Year Review of the Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development Outcomes in Africa (WSSD+5):

This report aims at monitoring and assessing sustainable development in Africa, and promoting a balanced integration of the three pillars

This study examines the opportunities for linking social protection, adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the context of agriculture and rural growth, exploring whether linking these three approaches together will help enhance resilience to shocks

This document presents the workplan for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) for the 2009-2011 period.

The chapter dedicated to the disasters presents the following programmes: Use of Satellites for Risk Management, Systematic

This report presents the summary of the Forum 2008, an international conference which focused exclusively on the human impact of climate change and on boosting assistance to worst affected poor and vulnerable populations. It deals with the climate