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This Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) impartially assesses the scientific literature on the potential role of renewable energy in the mitigation of...
This Manual considers international laws, standards and policies pertaining to five areas relevant to rehabilitation following a natural disaster: human rights, the rights of vulnerable groups,...
Once emergency needs have been met following a disaster and the initial crisis is over, people affected and the communities that support them are still in a state of heightened vulnerability. Post...
This Manual provides practical guidance on how to produce durable concrete in rural environments of developing countries using local materials. It is aimed primarily at the practising Engineer who...
This paper provides a broad and selective overview of the humanitarian system, and trends and issues relating to humanitarian responses to natural disasters. 1 Key issues covered include: \n-...
This edition of Humanitarian Exchange features articles on the topic of disaster risk reduction for humanitarian practitioners. Disaster risk reduction is the broad development and application of...
This Good Practice Review is intended for practitioners: principally project planners and managers working at sub-national and local levels, mostly in NGOs but also in local government and...
In 1997 (Mbiba 1997) , I argued that communal lands do not offer secure tenure for the people living on them, and that while this insecurity prevails, the inhabitants of communal areas in Zimbabwe...
Counter Insurgency (COIN) Operations must accomplish three tasks simultaneously: ¢ Influence insurgent-minded individuals to adopt a neutral disposition. ¢ Influence neutral-minded individuals to...
This report by ProAct Network and Gaia Group reviews a growing body of evidence that sound environmental management has a potentially important role to play in reducing many of the risks posed by...