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This brief discussion note takes a critical look at assumptions that disaster risks are likely to be addressed in the course of post-disaster recovery efforts and was developed in particular to...
This paper is meant to provide additional information about indicators specifically relating to risk reduction in order to inform the possible selection and adaptation of risk reduction indicators...
Following a wave of violence that reached its' peak June 10-14, 2010 in the southern city of Osh inthe Kyrgyz Republic (commonly called Kyrgyzstan), Save the Children has launched an...
This report focuses on post-earthquake housing reconstruction by consolidating the qualitative and quantitative data collected within the framework of this project together with a review of...
An addition to the training accompanying the transitional settlement: displaced populations. A case study looking at the Jhapa camp in Nepal.
An addition to the training accompanying the transitional settlement: displaced populations. A case study looking at the Kakuma camp in Kenya
Since 1992, SDC's Department for Humanitarian Aid (the Europe and CIS Division) has been implementing durable housing solutions in the Western Balkans. From 2001 onwards, these programmes...
This book presents the concepts, procedures, and code provisions that are currently being used to make structures as earthquake resistant as is presently feasible. The book begins by describing...
This book addresses sustainable planning and construction after natural events such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, etc. and asserts it is yet possible, in theory and in practice, to construct...
Risk management is inspired by the anticipated reduction oflosses (human and material) that natural hazards may cause inthe future. It is a policy by means of which the possibility oflosses is...