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Displaying 5 of about 5 resultsThe Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) has set the goal of achieving Gross National Happiness through all-round socio-economic development as a priority national objective. In view of the geo-physical location of the country in one of the most seismically active regions of the world and the peculiar geo-climatic conditions affecting the landmass and its…
The Hazard Mitigation Policy (HMP) and Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan (NHMP) are designed to work in tandem with the National Emergency Management Plan of 2007. The HMP has been designed to reinforce the institutional and popular hazards mitigation, and notably climate-change related catastrophes. The NHMP details the HMP orientations with more specific…
The May 27, 2006 earthquake struck Yogyakarta and Central Java. Yogyakarta is a center for Javanese traditional arts and culture, the ancient temples of Borobudur and Prambanan, and is home to a royal family whose lineage goes back to the Mataram era in the 16th century. It is also a center of Indonesian higher education. Striking in the early morning h…
This report aims to extract lessons learned from the ILO’s Aceh Programme in response to the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004, and propose good practices for future ILO crisis responses. It results from a desk review of documents produced by the Aceh programme; interviews with Acehand Jakarta-based staff; consultations with implementing partners…
Proceedings from the special session for the International Disaster Reduction Conference (IDRC), Davos, Switzerland, 31 August 2006 organized by the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) and the World Heritage Centre
This document presents the proceedings of the special session which had tw…