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The United Nations University (UNU) is the academic arm of the United Nations (UN). It bridges the academic world and the UN system. Its goal is to develop sustainable solutions for current and future problems of humankind in all aspects of life. Through a problem-oriented and interdisciplinary approach it aims at applied research and education on a global scale. UNU was founded in 1973 and is an autonomous organ of the UN General Assembly. The University comprises headquarters Tokyo, Japan, and more than a dozen Institutes and Programmes worldwide.

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    Changing climate, moving people: Framing migration, displacement and planned relocation

    Different policies are required for different types of human mobility related to climatic changes. The purpose of Policy Brief No. 8  is to help distinguish between human migration, displacement and planned relocation and present state-of-the-art thinking about some of the key issues related to addressing these in the context of climate policy.

    Policy Brief No. 8 | Read more

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    InterSections No. 13 - From Social Vulnerability to Resilience: Measuring Progress Toward Disaster Risk Reduction

    The 13th UNU-EHS InterSections by Melanie Gall draws on discussions and presentations given at the 2012 Summer Academy ‘From Social Vulnerability to Resilience: Measuring Progress toward Disaster Risk Reduction’ organized by UNU-EHS and Munich Re Foundation in Hohenkammer, Germany. It reviews existing research outlining the current state of resilience assessments and concludes with several suggestions for moving resilience research forward.

    InterSections No. 13 | Read more

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    InterSections No. 12 - Alert and warning frameworks in the context of early warning systems

    The 12th UNU-EHS InterSections, by Juan Carlos Villagrán de León, Ines Pruessner and Harold Breedlove, presents a comparative review of early warning systems established by Member States around the world for a variety of hazards from the perspective of their alert and warning frameworks. The authors urge us to recognize existing differences among these systems which arise as a consequence of the need to adapt such systems to the dynamics of environmental events. These differences are manifested in the number of danger and risk levels which are employed within different systems, the criteria used to define such levels as well as the nomenclature employed to differentiate the levels.

    InterSections No. 12 | Read more

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UNU Strategic Plan 2011-2014

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