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This illustrated reference for school facilities planners and designers shows examples of seismic retrofitting of junior and senior high school buildings in two prefectures and their performance...
Contents: Intensity of the DisasterStrategies Adopted by the StateAchievementsLessons Learned
This joint report”issued by the Government of the Maldives, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), the World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADB), Japanese...
The world's response to Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of December 2004 was unprecedented, and donations from all public and private sources topped US$13. 4 billion. Yet even for the...
These technical sheets provide technical specifications for various temporary and permanent WASH infrastructures: hand pumps, water tanks, latrines, bathing areas and washing stands. Accessibility...
These Guidelines for best practice are based on wide-ranging new research from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas and many years' global disaster experience. They aim to help relief...
On 11 August 2012 at 16: 53 and 17: 04 (local time), two earthquakes measuring 6. 2 and 6. 1 on moment magnitude scale hit 23km and 30km west of Ahar in Azerbaijan Sharghi province north-west of...
On 11 August 2012 at 16: 53 and 17: 04 (local time), two earthquakes measuring 6. 2 and 6. 1 on moment magnitude scale hit 23km and 30km west of Ahar in Azerbaijan Sharghi province north-west of...
This document provides an analysis of the Indian response to the 2004 tsunami, from the human rights perspective. The Guiding Principles outlined in the document also call on authorities to...
This report discusses how wind damages buildings, how to assess damage, and how to build or strengthen structures to avoid wind damage. While it is attempted to give information for planning and...