Building climate and disaster resilience into city planning and management processes

This paper presents an integrated analytic framework for tackling climate change through mainstreaming disaster risk management into overall development planning in urban areas. It discusses an ongoing application of the Climate Resilient City framework in East Asia, the Middle East and Africa

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Climate resilient cities : a primer on reducing vulnerabilities to disasters

This Primer provides city administrators with exactly what they need to know about the complex and compelling challenges of climate change. The books helps local government in developing countries create training, capacity building and capital investment programs for building sustainable, resilient communities. A step by step self assessment challenges policy makers to think about the resources needed to combat natural disasters through an innovative Hot Spot risk and vulnerability identification tool

Transient exposures and the risk of childhood injury: A case-crossover study in Greece

We used a case-crossover design to evaluate short-term effects of several exposures on the risk of childhood accident. One hundred fifty-six hospitalized children with injuries responded to an interviewer-administered questionnaire that included, among other variables, information concerning transient exposures that had terminated within 26 hours before the occurrence of the accident. We considered the 2-hour interval preceding the accident as the likely effect period and made within-individual comparisons between this period and the remaining 2-hour intervals during which the child was awake. We used conditional logistic regression analyses to evaluate the effect of the transient exposures on the occurrence of childhood accidents. We present univariate and multivariate analyses adjusting for possible within-person confounding by exposure to more than one exposure simultaneously and for clock time. The adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were as follows: for strenuous physical activity, OR = 24.2, 95% CI = 10.8-54.4; for intellectual exertion, OR = 9.0, 95% CI = 1.9-25.8; for involvement in family quarrels, OR = 2.6, 95% CI = 0.4-16.9; for school examination, OR = 3.8, 95% CI = 1.5-9.4; and for a pleasing event, OR = 3.4, 95% CI = 1.5-8.2. Other transient exposures were not associated with increased accident risk. Comparison of the overall frequency of reported transient events between the first of the control intervals (3rd and 4th hours before the accident) and the 2-hour interval covering the 25th and 26th hours before the accident suggested that information bias may have led to slight overreporting of transient exposures during the period most proximal to the accident; this bias, however, was too small to explain the marked risk elevations associated with the indicated transient exposures. We conclude that several transient exposures are important component causes in the occurrence of childhood accidents