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This risk profile is an analysis of the mortality and economic loss risk for three weather-related hazards: tropical cyclones, floods and landslides. In addition new insights have been gained into...
A guide book for personal safety in the field during a disaster with special reference to Indonesia. It addresses safety during earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and volcanic eruptions.
Reference manual for Tsunami and Earthquake reconstruction of buildings. Settlement patterns and design considerations. Foundations, walls, openings, columns & beams, junctions, overhangs...
Examples of medical semi-temporary structures in MSF programs. Towards permanent building MSF-CH, Ryad refugee camp, Darfur, Sudan. Post-Tsunami emergency shelters MSF-CH, Sri Lanka, 2005. Pre-...
The speaker offered an overview of the IASC's cluster initiative, with a focus on how it had been designed by the Humanitarian Response Review (HRR) after the Indian Ocean tsunami 2004, paying...
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...
In the immediate aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami, the affected countries and their respective governments and civil society organisations had an opportunity to draw upon, and should have...
These Guidelines are the result of the documentation project œSurvey of
Women's Human Rights Violations in the Aftermath of the Tsunami in
India, Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka...
The bar charts show the degree of exposure to natural hazards and the percentage of area affected (per country). Tsunami and storm suges are a threat to coastal regions, particularly gulfs, bays,...