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This article extracted from the Prevention Web website deals with disaster risk reduction in Malaysia. The author insists on the need to spread DRR through public and private sector then to...
National Disaster Risk Management Policy published by the Secretary of State for Social Assistance and Natural Disaster National Disaster Management Directorate . This policy remains into a five...
This operating manual provides guidelines for humanitarian workers in operationalising internationally accepted codes of conduct in the Sri Lankan context. Consulted and endorsed by humanitarian...
The papers in this volume were prepared as background materials for the conference on The future of disaster risk: building safer cities held at the World Bank from December 4 to December 6, 2002...
Hurricane Ivan struck Grenada on September 7, 2004. The international and local communities responded with a massive reconstruction and recovery effort. Although the job is far from finished, the...
Adobe mud blocks are one of the oldest and most widely used building materials. Use of these sun-dried blocks dates back to 8000 B. C. (Houben and Guillard 1994, referenced in EERI adobe tutorial...
Practical guide to production and uses of lime.
A analysis of current methods of school construction in developing countries and how they can be bettered.
A handout explaining the capacity building intiaitive under the UNDP grant in Timor Leste
A note to explain the roles of the National Security Council undet the Prime Minister Office of Malaysia