Documents and publications

The National Disaster Management Framework (NDMF) provides a mechanism that serves as a regulatory guideline for effective and efficient disaster management in Nigeria.

Some of the framework's objectives are:

- Establish functional disaster management

The focal topic of the WorldRiskReport 2011 is governance and civil socitey. The report examines the natural hazards related issues at the global level and draws conclusions for future actions in assistance, policy and reporting. The core of the

This documents reports on the IFRC's International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles (IDRL) programme which seeks to reduce human vulnerability by promoting legal preparedness for disasters, in particular with regard to international assistance

Community, environment and disaster risk management, volume 7:

This book highlights the issues of resilience through regional, national, city and community-based studies.It is presented as the first book to combine academic research and field practice in

Mika Shimizu argues in this bulletin that three major specific policy and social resilience lessons need to be learned from the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant failure that devastated large parts of Northeastern Japan on 11 March

This report on adaptation to climate variability and change draws together the conclusions of a series of comparative case studies undertaken for the Area-Based Development and Climate Change (ABDCC) project of the Social Development Department of the

In French:

Sur mandat de l'Office fédéral de la protection de la population (OFPP), le Center for Security Studies (CSS) de l'EPF de Zurich a réalisé, dans les cantons, une étude sur l'analyse des risques et des dangers d’origine naturelle, technique ou

Cambodian Human Development Report 2011:

This report is about people’s well-being and provides an in-depth, national policy analysis. The report will inform Cambodia’s responses to the development challenges of climate change at all levels, changing