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This series of guidebooks are designed to raise awareness of the challenges local governments face in reducing disaster risks. Book 3 outlines the planning process in managing urban disaster risks, focusing on the process of transforming risk assessments

This series of guidebooks are designed to raise awareness of the challenges local governments face in reducing disaster risks. Book 4 introduces the concept of ‘mainstreaming’ as the core framework for local government to reduce disaster risks. This

This outline of the IDRC Davos 2010 conference outcomes, with its motto “Risks, Disasters, Crisis and Global Change – From Threats to Sustainable Opportunities”, marks the conference as another milestone toward the integration of the ever more complex and

A teacher's manual of classroom activities for K-8 focused on preparedness, response, and mitigation. Activities cover earthquakes, hurricanes, and basic first aid for K-8 students. Many activities are geared for low-resource environments.

'On the disaster risk reduction front, standard operating procedures (SOPs) are being refined and will tie in with a pre-typhoon season meeting among Red Cross Red Crescent partners in-country,' reports the Viet Nam Red Cross in it's ninth operations update...

Drowning is the leading cause of death during Bangladesh’s flooding season from June to September, making it one of the top killers, according to the International Drowning Research Centre in Bangladesh set up with Australian government funding, to prevent drowning through research and advocacy...

This overview highlights projects supporting measures that minimize climate change damage by reducing the risk, or the adverse effects, of climate change, through support to LDCs, advancing achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, and supporting

President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych believes that measures must be applied so that his country is better prepared to combat emergencies, including the threat of fires, he said in a recent conference call with regional governors...