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Displaying 15 of about 48 resultsThis report of a Post-Incident Assessment conducted by KPMG LLP for the Alberta Emergency Management Agency (AEMA), provides a review of the Government of Alberta’s support to stakeholders, emergency social services, and community evacuations during the May 2016 Wood Buffalo Wildfire (also known as the Horse River Wildfire) and its aftermath.
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This report of the commission describes how the state of Texas responded to the disaster, and how Texans began the long road to recovery.
The report is the product of months of effort by the commission and its many partners, based on hundreds of hours of interviews and after-action reports. It provides a detailed account of the storm a…
This study presents analysis of the six winning Hurricane Sandy Design Competition projects selected to demonstrate innovative approaches for rebuilding communities affected by Hurricane Sandy in ways that will enhance physical, social, economic, and environmental resilience. Two years into implementation, these projects are providing important les…
UN-DESA policy brief no. 28:
This document addresses the challenge of sustainable reconstruction for Haiti following the earthquake of 7.0 on the Richter scale in early January 2010. It targets Haiti's need to rebuild its entire economy in a sustainable manner, to such an extent that it will be more resilient to future shocks and disasters and will be…
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This paper presents German views on disaster risk management for sustainable development. It contains a section on linking theory and practice, which covers risk analysis, disaster preparedness, disaster prevention and mitigation, and aid and reconstruction. Supporting case studies from several countries are provided.
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This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
From 2010 to 2015, Canaan was perhaps the urban settlement with the fastest exponential growth in the Western hemisphere. Technically, Canaan is not a city—at least not in the administrative sense of the term. Nor is it simply a slum on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. Instead, it is a vast, new and almost entirely self-constructed post-disaster settlem…
This report evaluates the performance of the New Orleans hurricane protection system and studies the vulnerabilities posed to the city and the region by hurricanes. More specifically, the objectives of the study are defined as: (i) the design and status of the hurricane protection system pre-Katrina; (ii) storm surges and waves generated by Hurricane K…
Beyond reconstruction: re-envisioning Haiti with equity, fairness, and opportunity:
This paper addresses the decisions already being implemented in Haiti on relief, reconstruction and recovery, and calls for a 'build back better' approach. It sets out some basic rules and principles for the reconstruction process, and highlights some of Oxfam’s concer…
...and urgent actions required in all disaster-prone countries to improve disaster-risk assessment, prevention and mitigation:
This resolution, adopted unanimously by the 122nd IPU Assembly in Bangkok, 1 April 2010, acknowledges that both disasters and climate change hit poor nations and communities the hardest, and that disaster risk reduction for im…
A dos años del 19s, ante el cambio de administración en la ciudad y los cambios en la política pública frente a la reconstrucción (aún pendiente), presentamos la actualización del Manual para para la reconstrucción con dignidad.
“Prepararnos ante el riesgo” nos habla de las obligaciones, hábitos y consideraciones para reconocer y reducir el riesgo en l…
This final report presents the outcomes of the Making Cities Resilient New Orleans-Gothenburg exchange. The exchange was part of the United Nation's Making Cities Resilient campaign and concerned with disaster resilience with particular focus on high water levels and flood risk shared by the two coastal cities. With the objective of exchanging informati…
This report provides a reassessment of natural hazards in the United States and discusses the progress and challenges in reducing losses from natural disasters. It presents public private partnership 2000 forums, including disaster risk management activities related to insurance sector, urban risks, California earthquake loss reduction plan, disaster re…
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En el boletín de Salud Pública y Gestión del Riesgo del CRID de enero podrá consultar sobre el nuevo portal en francés para Haití sobre emergencias y desastres, información sobre la sistematización y lecciones aprendidas del proyecto de OPS "Hospitales seguros y riesgo urbano en Centroamérica", materiales de sensibilización, convocatorias y…
These proceedings outline the outcomes and conclusions of the regional workshop addressing disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, inlcuding: panel discussions on a) Governability and development planning, b) Risk reduction measures and climate change adaptation, c) Post-disaster recovery; a field visit to the landslide risk areas in Tegu…