Heritage conservation, traditional methods, knowledge, know-how, housing; ancient communities coping practices and systems, community resilience mechanisms.
Disasters are tangible proof that something needs to change in urban settings and the built environment. But the aftermath of a disaster is also a time to reflect on tradition, history, identity, memory, and cultural meaning.
This Joint Rapid Assessment presents preliminary cost estimates for loss and damage as a result of the 2009 Earthquake in Bhutan. It estimates recovery and reconstruction costs and identifies priorities for early recovery, reconstruction and disaster risk reduction, and a time-line for addressing them.
Bhutan - government
World Bank, the
United Nations - Headquarters
This report presents an estimation of the main effects of the disaster, including estimating (i) the value of physical assets that were totally or partially destroyed by the disaster; (ii) the losses in economic flows from the temporary absence of those assets; and (iii) the impact on economic development and social conditions.
Yemen - government
World Bank, the
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
This paper explores the argument that small island states and sub-national jurisdictions can especially benefit from a broader understanding of what data can be and how historical narrative and archival data can act as a valuable source of knowledge on disasters and climate.
This guidance complements the Volume A Guidelines of the PDNA methodology, and aims to assist in carrying out a PDNA of culture sector in order to conduct an integrated assessment of the impacts of disaster effects on the sector, and to define the main lines of a recovery strategy that would incorporate DRR considerations.
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the
United Nations Development Programme - Headquarters
European Union
World Bank, the
