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Tarpaulins, transitional shelters or permanent houses:how does the shelter assistance provided affect the recovery of communities after disaster?
Preliminary Impact Evaluation of the transitional Shelter Programme in Aceh Province, Indonesia
Some 20 million tonnes of waste resulted from the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE). The amount of debris in Iwate Prefecture was 11 times greater than in a normal year, and in Miyagi 19 times...
Special Issue 35, August 2007. Main sections: Vulnerable communities at the center of results, CBDRM as a disaster reduction approach is on a tipping point, communities as the base of disaster...
Special Issue 36, September 2007. Report on South Asia Earthquake. Includes sections: How to Work on Floods, 200 Flood Recovery Agenda for International Agencies: Lessons from the Tsunami...
In the last years a number of International and National associations, such as United Nations Development Program (UNDP), NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U. S. ) and FEMA (...
We have compiled this publication to analyze the natural disaster trends in the year 2006 for the purpose of accelerating and strengthening global and regional socio-economic frameworks for...
This study makes a comparative analysis of 15 cities in the Asian region, including some megacities, medium sized cities, and smaller cities, in their capacity to absorb stress, to manage it and...
A children-illustrated slideshow that explains Tsunami Preparedness in easily-understood terms and format.
In October 1999 a super cyclone hit the coast of Orissa. An estimated 10, 000 people died and the livelihoods of many of the survivors were shattered. This study aims to share lessons from the...