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This Manual has been designed as a guide to assist the Environmental Health (EH) sector in the development of contingency plans for flood events. It outlines the basic steps in the contingency...
This guide serves as the culmination of the Humanitarian Horizons project, a futures capacity-building initiative intended to assist the humanitarian sector prepare for the complexities of the...
This case study seeks to understand how local pastoral communities could play in the management of drought in Iran. It begins with an examination of the range of organisations that are involved in...
The cluster approach was introduced as part of humanitarian reform in 2005. Itseeks to make humanitarian assistance more effective by introducing a systemof sectoral coordination with designated...
A failure to address environmental risks and insufficient inclusion of environmental considerations in relief operations can undermine the relief process, causing additional loss of life,...
Urban planning is viewed as one of the measures to reduce the risk of disaster. Applications of principles & techniques of modern urban planning, good governance and legislative controls can...
This at-a-glance guide to global security issues provides a wealth of information on armed conflicts since 1946. It maps political violence, the links between poverty and conflict, assaults on...
This at-a-glance guide to global security issues provides a wealth of information on armed conflicts since 1946. It maps political violence, the links between poverty and conflict, assaults on...
This at-a-glance guide to global security issues provides a wealth of information on armed conflicts since 1946. It maps political violence, the links between poverty and conflict, assaults on...
Use of satellite data to make initial damage assessments. Case study from the Bam, Iran earthquake of 26 December 2003.