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The primary aim of the TEC is to improve the quality of humanitarian action - including the linkages to longer term recovery and development - by learning lessons from the international response to the tsunami. To optimise this learning, TEC member

This report has been prepared in response to General Assembly Resolution 60/15 of 2 February 2006 on “Strengthening emergency relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction and prevention in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster”. The report provides a status update of the recovery process at the 18-month mark and seeks to identify some of the key emerging challenges and lessons learned in efforts to build back better. It examines successes and challenges in tsunami response, focusing on long-term recovery.

The recent tsunami in the Indian Ocean has caused considerable seismic unrest, this volume focuses on exposing the coastal vulnerability of the area. This global concern is all the more prevalent since the Hyogo Declaration at Kobe, Japan in January 2005

In this volume, scholars from around the region analyse the impacts of globalization on cities in the Asia Pacifc. This collection of essays forms a useful, comprehensive, and ambitious study, focusing on the region’s specific urban concerns and on

The volume contains 4 sessions: I. Natural Wetland Systems and their Functions; II. Wetland Biogeochemisty; III. Wetland Management Strategies in Asia and IV. Constructed Wetland. The basic information of natural wetland systems is introduced in Session I

The framework presented here consists of a vision for the rehabilitation of the fishery and aquaculture sectors which reflects an “ideal state” towards which all strategies and activities contribute and which avoids the mistakes of the past.