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Displaying 5 of about 5 resultsThis paper discusses the role of resource rights in pre-disaster resilience and post-disaster reconstruction. It also raises a number of important questions: Where is the balance between communally-held and privately-held resource rights? How can an understanding of resource rights be integrated into disaster risk reduction plans and disaster relief? An…
This research paper represents the first systematic attempt to examine the effects of school-based interventions on children's sel-freported PTSD-related distress and coping ability following a series of volcanic eruptions in a sample of 112 children.
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Recopilación de Herramientas para la Gestión Local del Riesgo, realizada por el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para los Asentamientos Humanos, UN-Habitat con el apoyo del International Development Research Centre – IDRC (Canadá), en el marco del Proyecto Apoyo a las Autoridades Locales de Ciudades de América Central para la Gestión Local de…
The Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 23 no. 2, May 2008
The author presents the results of a study on the adjustment of two ethnic groups to the post-disaster resettlement program after the 1991 Mt Pinatubo volcano eruption in the Philippines.
This study focuses on the adjustment of two lowland ethnic groups of the Philippines, i.e. th…
This book, consisting of two parts, the theory of Total Disaster Risk Management (TDRM) and good practices for disaster risk management, was compiled for the purpose of promoting TDRM as a comprehensive approach to disaster risk reduction worldwide.
It was published for the UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction (held in Kobe, Japan 18-22 January 20…