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Displaying 15 of about 24 resultsSubmitted in preparation for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
There is a National Policy and Legislation addressing disaster risk reduction in Papua New Guinea. The National Executive Council (NEC) has endorsed the National Mitigation Policy but the legislation is currently under review.
The National Disaster Committee is the highest authority and the decision
making body on any policy matters. It comprises of De…
This draft report has been prepared by Environmental Resources Management on behalf of the Department for International Development. The objective of the report is to present a high-level, desk-based assessment of the economic costs of disasters, and of the costs and benefits of various approaches to managing the risks of natural disasters, normally kno…
This book is based on interviews conducted by research teams in March and April 2005 with hundreds of tsunami survivors, government officials, human rights activists, and aid workers in five tsunami-affected countries-India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and Thailand. Survivors continue to suffer from inequities in aid distribution and substandard…
An edited collection of concise, hard-hitting essays by a group of international experts and scholars that address the politics and policy of environmental change and sustainable development in East and Southeast Asia. The book pays particular attention to the ways in which foreign policy and international relations theories help explain eco-politics an…
This report identifies a practical methodology to understand and quantify the natural hazards faced by the proposed safe islands or any inhabited island of Maldives. The findings could be used in enhancing the Safe Island Development Programme and to better understand the hazard exposure in other islands of Maldives. This report also offers Recommendati…
Submitted in preparation for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
The British Virgin Islands’ National Disaster Management Council
(NDMC) comprises many and varied committees, governmental and
voluntary organisations, agencies, interest groups, donors, religious bodies and individuals, all of which must be coordinated to function as one organisation in times of crisis and disorder. Each entity is allocated certain tas…
Submitted in preparation for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
This guidebook provides information about the risks associated with climate change, as well as providing ideas, tools and techniques for those who need to start taking action today to prepare. It is primarily aimed at government officers who would like to learn more about climate change, its impacts and how to start preparing. Specifically, it has been…
The report is published with the objective of presenting in a clear and timely manner, an analytical overview of the state of the environment focusing on issues, policies and strategies of the key environmental challenges confronting the Maldives today. The reports highlights that with the increase in population and socio-economic development, the chall…
This publication provides 35 good practices and lessons learned as concrete examples of how to make children safer in their classrooms and educate them about disasters.
This project report from UNESCO provides details of the work completed under the “Educational materials for education for natural disaster preparedness in Asia-Pacific in the context of education for sustainable development” project. Details of the development of culturally appropriate and locally relevant educational material for natural disaster prepa…
The goal of this Policy Note is to influence policy makers and development partners in the Pacific Islands region to undertake risk management of natural hazards and minimize the future impacts of natural disasters, climate change and sea level rise. As a short-term objective, the Policy Note aims to review the disaster trends and lessons learned from p…
Good practices and lessons learned, a publication of the “Global network of NGOs” for disaster risk reduction.
This publication is a joint effort of the Global Network of NGOs for Disaster Risk Reduction, an emerging network of national and international NGOs aiming to reduce disaster risk worldwide. The idea of publishing a compilation of good practic…