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A film focusing on adaptation to the effects of Climate Change that we have to face now and in the future.
A revised handbook for damage assessment. This new version incorporates new and significant developments while refining and improving the methodology for damage assessment contained in several...
This Guidance and Indicator Tool is designed to provide guidance on how to meet the challenge of being prepared to respond as set out in Priority Five of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA). This...
Reflections on the role of the educational community in risk management. This document aims to prompt reflection on what exactly constitutes as a safe school: offering a resistible infrastructure...
This document is anExtract from the final report of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (A/CONF. 206/6), held from 18 to 22 January 2005in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. The Conference adopted the...
This assessment report addresses the 2008 tropical storm and flood in Yemen. It covers the disaster in general including its toll and the response, the macroeconomic and poverty impact, immediate...
The longer and more costly work of disaster recovery is seldom accorded the same degree of supporting assistance, even though it may determine the future well-being of a community for years into...
The main objectives of this study have been two-fold. On the one hand, the study has attempted to establish the extent of financial vulnerability of governments and households to natural hazards...
The speaker introduced a new website, called PreventionWeb. It had been designed to bring together as much information as possible regarding disaster prevention and disaster risk reduction. He...
Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning was developed by the International Recovery Platform (IRP) to present a series of steps to initiate and sustain pre disaster recovery planning. IRP acknowledges the...