Report on Nature-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Solutions in the West Balkans
Brooks Hannas & Partners worked on Report on Nature-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Solutions in the West Balkans for Japan International Cooperation Agency Balkan Office (JICA Balkan Office).
Brooks Hannas & Partners and it’s forestry and torrent control experts, documented historical and current legal, institutional, educational/academic and technical frameworks on “nature-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) solutions” practiced in the Western Balkans; to identify practical options for the regional network on “nature-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) solutions” under the Western Balkan Cooperation Initiative and help compile key technical information related to the “nature-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) solutions” outputs of the Project between Kosovo/ Montenegro and JICA.
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Executive Summary
Chapter 1: Geography and Geological Formation of the Balkan Peninsula
Chapter 2: Nature-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Solutions practiced in former Yugoslavia and Albania (e.g. – legal/institutional frameworks, education, field practices, human resources) and Summary of Representing Field Exercises (e.g. – erosion control and watershed management, coastal sand dune fixation, avalanche prevention, windbreaks)
Chapter 3: Current Nature-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Solutions practiced in each state of former Yugoslavia and Albania
Chapter 4: Insights over the Projects in North Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo (e.g. – portfolio of solutions, insights over the planned demonstrations, institutional arrangement options and advantages/disadvantages of each)
Chapter 5: Options for the regional network and processes under the Western Balkan Cooperation Initiative in Nature-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Solutions (e.g. – EU Directives-based, FOREST EUROPE-based, regional framework-based, advantages/disadvantages of each)
- Avalanche in Restlice, Kosovo in 2012
- Geography, topography, geology, land use, climate, demography, etc.
- Facts of the avalanche (e.g. – date/time, meteorological information, slopes and surface cover)
- Recovery efforts (e.g. – land use, remedial plans, slope reforestation trial designs/current status/future plans/technical supervisors)
- Press articles, etc.
- Coastal forests in Ulcinj, Montenegro
- Historical coastal disasters
- Conservation of remaining coastal forests and reforestation efforts, legal/institutional/technical frameworks
- Recent development
