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This study focuses on impacts and responses to flood risk among the urban poor living in the highly vulnerable informal settlements in the Cape Flats of the City of Cape Town, South Africa and...
This paper is purely on the historical account of land and planning laws in Nigeria. As such, the method of investigation is essentially a documentary and analysis of archival records. Based on...
Between December 2005 and February 2006, a team of researchers from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Department of Social Medicine from Harvard Medical School, carried...
This document presents the spatial distribution of seismic hazard for the WHO e-atlas of disaster risk, volume 1: exposure to natural hazards, Version 2.0. The seismic hazard distribution map used...
This summary document presents the key findings of a research project which looked at how (and how far) the delivery of Tearfund’s water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH) can contribute to...
This paper aims to provide a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes. It concentrates on issues of particular relevance in earthquakes. \nThe paper...
This book is a unique compilation of state-of-the-art vulnerability assessment and is essential reading for academics, policy students, practitioners, makers, and anybody else interested in...
Pakistan has undergone massive changes in its federal structure under the 18th Constitutional Amendment. To gain insights that will inform reform plans, we assessed several aspects of health-...
This paper aims to provide a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes. It concentrates on issues of particular relevance in earthquakes. The paper...
The Effective Shelter and Infrastructure Provision Post Disaster workshop began with a presentation from the World Bank's Yasemin Aysan. Ms. Aysan began with a review of OCHA's study of...