Governance arrangement
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Operational Plan to Prevent the Effects of Heatwaves on Health (POCS)
Rising temperatures and longer periods of extreme heat have significant implications for human health across mediterranean regions. These impacts are more acute in urban areas, and it is known that elevated and sustained heat for days causes excess mortality, which ranges from 12% to 40% in developed countries.
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Drought Mental Health and Community Wellbeing Support
Disasters have a direct impact on mental health and a communities’ adaptive capacity and resilience. Rural and regional communities often rely on agriculture, water-intensive industries and nature-based tourism and therefore carry high exposure to drought. Livestock, cropping and much regional employment may depend directly on water.
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Increasing the delivery of Cultural Fire
Victoria is one of the most bushfire-prone regions in the world, and reducing fuel loads on public and private land is central to protecting life, property and the natural environment from bushfire. For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal peoples in Victoria managed fire-prone land through cultural burning,…
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Building Agreements to Streamline Wildfire Management Across Jurisdictions and Land Ownership
California is strengthening collaboration with state, local and tribal governments in carrying out fuel reduction projects on federal lands. Under Action 1.4 of California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan (January 2021), the US Forest Service (USFS) committed to expand its use of Good Neighbor Authority…
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Programa Estatal para el Manejo de Fuego (State Forest Fire Prevention and Management Programme)
The Programa Estatal para el Manejo de Fuego is Baja California Sur’s (BCS) primary governance instrument for forest fire prevention, preparedness, and response. It is structured around annual seasonal activation (the fire season in BCS runs from March to August) and operates through a multi-agency coordination…
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Climate Resilient Landscapes: Regional Landscape Boards
Climate Resilient Landscapes is a coordinated climate resilience project designed collectively by South Australia’s eight regional landscape boards and funded through the state’s Landscape Priorities Fund (LPF). Awarded in October 2025, it comprises eight regionally tailored sub-projects, one per board, each addressing locally specific drought and…
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SB 310 Cultural Fire Agreements
Fuel accumulation, driven by over a century of fire suppression policy, has created landscapes that burn at higher intensity than at any point in the historical record. Climate change is compounding this through drought, heat, and shifting wind patterns that extend fire season and enable larger,…
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Integrated Prescribed Burning and Strategic Management Points (PEGs) Model
Catalonia’s wildfire resilience strategy combines landscape-scale fuel management with tactical fire suppression capabilities. It is based on two core pillars:
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Adapting National Plans to Regional Frameworks for Local Implementation
Morocco’s National Sustainable Development Strategy (Stratégie Nationale de Développement Durable, SNDD), adopted in 2017, provides the overarching framework guiding national and regional efforts to accelerate the country’s transition towards a green and inclusive economy by 2030. It is structured around seven priority issues, 31 strategic axes…
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Catalonia’s law 16/2017 on Climate Change- Llei 16/2017, de l’1 d’agost, del canvi climàtic
Catalonia’s Law 16/2017 on Climate Change requires all ministries of the Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya) to incorporate climate adaptation objectives into their sectoral planning and programming. Each department must integrate the vulnerability reduction objectives of the regional adaptation framework into its sectoral plans and…