Social impacts and social resilience

This issue of the Asian Disaster Management News highlights "emerging risks and approaches for reducing vulnerabilities of the urban built environment".
Cities in Asia and in other parts of the world are in various stages of development. The ongoing

This report presents first hand observations, summarizes data collected from various sources in Pakistan and includes early analysis of the available strong-motion records. It provides a brief background on the seismo-tectonic setting of the region

This is an all-purpose handbook on how to build sustainability into a community during the recovery period after a disaster. It has background information, practical descriptions, and ideas about what sustainability is, why it is a good for a community

Under the program area four of the ITOWS program: the “Local Preparedness and Mitigation” has been uniquely devised as one of the most significant area of work. The Tsunami Resilient Communities (TRC) has planned as the core initiative to this local

This publication aims at supporting parents and teacher in helping children after a loss event, providing methods and activities to make their psychological recovery easier.

This Coastal Community Resilience (CCR) Guide was developed, on the basis of lessons learned and experience gained in the Indian Ocean region after the 2004 tsunami, to address coastal hazards and reduce risk to vulnerable communities. The framework

To develop a ten-year strategy for disaster reduction through science and technology, the members of the Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction (SDR) collaborated with scientists and engineers worldwide to identify a suite of Grand Challenges for disaster

This report draws attention to gender as an indicator of vulnerability and discusses how women are disproportionately affected, particularly in the field of disaster preparedness and management (DP/M). It discusses why gender analysis is essential in the