Christine Wamsler
Professor, Docent, appointed Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP)
Water and Risk: Developing sustainable and resilient communities
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Summary, in English
Key Messages
• Sweden has an ideal opportunity to become a more important effect, reflecting the views of several Swedish organisations active international partner in DRR and resilience activities, originating in this area. from its strong history of donor support and long engagement
• Acting on this opportunity would enable timely Swedish in DRR. contributions to the increasing global debate on the need to build
• The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs plays an important role resilience to a multi-risk environment. This includes small scale and in contributing to relevant global processes; mainly the successor slow-onset disasters, violent conflict, uncontrolled urbanisation, framework to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA2) the rising consumption, environmental degradation Post-2015 Agenda and associated Sustainable Development and climate change. Goals. This document outlines some recommendations to this
• Sweden has an ideal opportunity to become a more important effect, reflecting the views of several Swedish organisations active international partner in DRR and resilience activities, originating in this area. from its strong history of donor support and long engagement
• Acting on this opportunity would enable timely Swedish in DRR. contributions to the increasing global debate on the need to build
• The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs plays an important role resilience to a multi-risk environment. This includes small scale and in contributing to relevant global processes; mainly the successor slow-onset disasters, violent conflict, uncontrolled urbanisation, framework to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA2) the rising consumption, environmental degradation Post-2015 Agenda and associated Sustainable Development and climate change. Goals. This document outlines some recommendations to this
Department/s
- Lund University Centre for Risk Assessment and Management (LUCRAM)
- Centre for Societal Resilience
- Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety
Publishing year
2014
Language
English
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Document type
Report
Publisher
Stockholm International Water Institute
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Status
Published