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United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD)
- Organization type:UN & International Organization
General contact information
- URL: http://www.uncrd.or.jp
- Address: Nagoya Office, Nagono 1-47-1, Nakamura-ku
- Postal Code: 450-0001
- City: Nagoya
- Country: Japan
- Telephone: +81 525619377
- Fax: +81 525619375
- Email: disaster@uncrd.or.jp
- Head of the organization: Chikako Takase
Mission & Disaster Reduction Profile
The United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) was founded in 1971 as an instrument to help achieve the strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade.
- Reconstruction towards sustainable communities: promotion of locally-based industries with all stakeholder approach
2012 - Joint research on the assessment methodology for recovery community development - final report
2009 - Earthquake safety construction: from guidelines to practice
2009 - Words to action: implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action through gendered community based disaster management
2009 - UNCRD Hyogo 10th anniversary report (1999-2009)
2009 - Report on the 2008 great Sichuan earthquake
2009 - Reducing vulnerability of school children to earthquakes
2009 - From code to practice: challenges for building code implementation and the further direction of housing earthquake safety
2009 - Gender perspectives in community based disaster management (CBDM)
2008 - Wider application of building code for safer housing: national workshop on the housing earthquake safety initiative, 23 August 2007, Lima, Peru - proceedings
2007 - 'Towards sustainable communities': gender in community based disaster management - proceedings of the International Disaster Management Symposium, Kobe Jan 18 2008
2007 - Safer communities for sustainable development
2007 - UNCDR at UN WCDR 2005: proceedings
2005 - UNCRD digest: community based disaster management activities abridged 2002-2005
2004 - UNCRD tapestry: defining the past and building the future of community based disaster management
2004 - From disaster to community development: the Kobe experience
2003 - GESI: Global Earthquake Safety Initiative - Pilot project
2002 - Final report: Global Earthquake Safety Initiative (GESI) pilot project
2001 - The effects of disasters on modern societies
1995 - Natural disaster reduction: effects of disaster on modern societies, report of Technical Committee C
1994 - Disaster management in metropolitan areas for the 21st Century
1993
- Bring happiness to the world
2010 - Educational materials for school earthquake safety: from guidelines to practices
2009 - Reducing vulnerability of school children to earthquakes
2008 - Regional Development Journal (RDD): Earthquake safety of schoolchildren
2007 - Masons, carpenters and technicians: manual on earthquake, cyclone, flood and tsunami safe school construction in Fiji
2007 - Sustainable community based disaster management (CBDM) practices in Asia: a user's guide
2004 - Consultant report on field survey of natural disasters: Indonesia, Nepal, India
2002 - Consultant report on field survey of natural disasters: Nepal
2002 - Role of schools in creting earthquake-safer environment
2001
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Working Areas
- Themes
- Risk Identification & Assessment
- Governance
- Community-based DRR
- Vulnerable Populations
- Recovery
- Complex Emergency
- Climate Change
- Critical Infrastructure
- Information Management
- Urban Risk & Planning
- Civil Society/NGOs
- Structural Safety
- Gender
- Space Technology
- Disaster Risk Management
- Environment
- Insurance & Risk Transfer
- Capacity Development
- Economics of DRR
- Education & School Safety
- Hazards
- Tsunami
- Tornado
- Cyclone
- Flood
- Earthquake
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