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Urban Risk & Planning
Measurement and management of urban hazards and vulnerability in order to improve awareness and local capacity to effectively reduce disaster risk.
Japan: Tokyo conducts disaster drill at stations, companies
3 Feb 2012, Mainichi Daily news, the
Organized by the Tokyo metropolitan government, the drill was based on the scenario that a magnitude 7.3 quake had halted public transportation following the Great East Japan Earthquake 2011...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 1.3 [PDF, 114Kb]Community Participation and decentralisation is ensured through the delegation of authority and resources to local levels
- Indicator 3.4 [PDF, 102Kb]Countrywide public awareness strategy exists to stimulate a culture of disaster resilience, with outreach to urban and rural communities
- Indicator 4.2 [PDF, 102Kb]Social development policies and plans are being implemented to reduce the vulnerability of populations most at risk
- Indicator 4.3 [PDF, 93Kb]Economic and productive sectorial policies and plans have been implemented to reduce the vulnerability of economic activities
- Indicator 4.4 [PDF, 101Kb]Planning and management of human settlements incorporate disaster risk reduction elements, including enforcement of building codes
- 2nd Asia-Pacific water summit APWS05-06 Feb 2012, Thailand (Bangkok)
- E-learning course on safe and resilient cities06-29 Feb 2012, United States of America (Washington D.C.)
- E-learning course on cities and climate change06-17 Feb 2012
- MA programme on sustainable urban governance and peaceUPEACE, Costa Rica (San José)
- MA Environmental security and peaceUPEACE, Costa Rica (San José)
- MSc in hydroinformaticsUNESCO-IHE, Netherlands (Delft)
School-based disaster risk reduction: making education safer2011, AIDMI; Concern
Planning for climate change: a strategic, values-based approach for urban planners2011, UN-HABITAT
CRID boletín digital salud pública y gestión del riesgo, enero 2012, número 52012, CRID
Central and Eastern United States seismic source characterization for nuclear facilities: technical report2012, EPRI; NRC, United States of America - gov; DOE, United States of America - gov
Contours des zones inondables en France liées aux fleuves et cours d’eauJan 2010, MEDDTL, France - gov
Estimation du nombre de logements situés en zone inondable an FranceJan 2010, MEDDTL, France - gov
Aléa sismique en FranceOct 2010, MEDDTL, France - gov
- Disaster reduction and recovery specialist, P3Niger (Niamey), BCPR-UNDP
- Internship (Making Cities Resilient campaign)Japan (Kobe), UNISDR AP
- Researcher - Human Settlements GroupCentral London, IIED
External Online Resources
- Biblioteca virtual portátil sobre riesgo urbano
- Business partnerships with the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
- Con los pies en la tierra: a DPAE educational resource on earthquake in Bogotá (in Spanish)
- Confined Masonry Network
- CRID: Urban risk documentation collection (in English and Spanish)
- Cross-Cutting Capacity Development Program (3CD Program)
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI) resources
- GFDRR: Safer homes, safer communities website
- Institute for Business and Home Safety: disaster safety portal
- Megacities Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Base (MDRM-KB)
- ProCivibus: A crowdsourcing system for collaborative emergency planning
- UK Climate Impacts Programme: Adaptation actions database
- UN-HABITAT: disaster assessment portal
- World Housing Encyclopedia (WHE)
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