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Search results for: “community resilience”

  • Resilience

    Resilience (in the Human Development Area) In this context, Resilience means: 1.United Nations defines the term as “the ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient […]

  • Resilience

    Resilience (in the Human Development Area) In this context, Resilience means: 1.United Nations defines the term as “the ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient […]

  • Strengthening Cve Efforts by Sub-National, City, and Local Partners

    Strengthening Cve Efforts By Sub-National, City, And Local Partners in 2016 The United States supports the Strong Cities Network, a global network of municipal and other sub-national leaders and local government practitioners involved in building community resilience. The United States also […]

  • Strengthening Cve Efforts by Sub-National, City, and Local Partners

    Strengthening Cve Efforts By Sub-National, City, And Local Partners in 2016 The United States supports the Strong Cities Network, a global network of municipal and other sub-national leaders and local government practitioners involved in building community resilience. The United States also […]

  • Programs to Counter Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Strategic Objectives and Initiatives

    More Details The Department of State played a pivotal role in the creation of an international framework for addressing the threat from FTFs and will continue to expand and deepen bilateral and multilateral engagement to counter the FTF threat and related radicalization and recruitment to […]

  • Programs to Counter Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Strategic Objectives and Initiatives

    More Details The Department of State played a pivotal role in the creation of an international framework for addressing the threat from FTFs and will continue to expand and deepen bilateral and multilateral engagement to counter the FTF threat and related radicalization and recruitment to […]

  • Piracy

    See Transnational crime . The first precise attempt to codify piracy was in 1958 when the Convention on the High Seas was adopted in order to clarify the legal status of pirates and the competence to arrest pirates. These articles in the Convention on the High Seas have been incorporated into […]

  • Sustainable Development

    Definition and Origins Sustainability and sustainable development were initially defined and promulgated in a report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, "Our Common Future" (1987). This report said (page 43) that sustainable development "is development that […]

  • Inter-Organizational Relations

    Inter-Organizational Relations Researchers began to engage in the study of inter-organizational relations later than their colleagues in neighboring disciplines such as sociology and economics. A further consolidation of the study of inter-organizational relations is expected to be achieved, including for the broader philosophical or socio-theoretical assumptions and for the political and societal implications of these…

  • Crime Prevention

    Crime Prevention Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) It is defined as a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behaviour through environmental design. CPTED strategies rely upon the ability to influence offender decisions that precede criminal acts by affecting the built, social and administrative environment. It is pronounced sep-ted and is known by various labels or…

  • Crime Prevention

    Crime Prevention Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) It is defined as a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behaviour through environmental design. CPTED strategies rely upon the ability to influence offender decisions that precede criminal acts by affecting the built, social and administrative environment. It is pronounced sep-ted and is known by various labels or…

  • Environmental Crime

    Environmental Crime Environmental Crime: Factors for Presecution in the United States Introduction to Factors to be Considered Where the law and evidence would otherwise be sufficient for prosecution, the Attorney for the Department should consider the factors contained herein [1], to the extent they are applicable, along with any other relevant factors, in determining whether…

  • Environmental Crime

    Environmental Crime Environmental Crime: Factors for Presecution in the United States Introduction to Factors to be Considered Where the law and evidence would otherwise be sufficient for prosecution, the Attorney for the Department should consider the factors contained herein [1], to the extent they are applicable, along with any other relevant factors, in determining whether…

  • Actions on Climate Change

    U.S. Action on Climate Change in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to U.S. Action on Climate Change: (1) U.S. Climate Action Plan On June 25, 2013, President Obama announced the U.S. Climate Action Plan. See White House Fact Sheet, available at (President's […]

  • Oceans

    Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and Law of the Sea (“ICP”) in 2013 United States views on international law [1] in relation to Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and Law of the Sea (“icp”): The United States participated in the 14th meeting of the Informal […]