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Displaying 11 of about 11 resultsThis guide is intended to demonstrate the value of using built environment professionals more widely in disaster risk reduction and response. It shows how their skills and expertise can be applied at all stages of disaster management. It highlights that their contribution is especially important to achieving the longer-term goal of sustainable recovery…
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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.
The German Government…
This report deals with issues of long-term recovery from 'natural' disasters and identifies and explores the nature of the perceived gap - in funding, management and delivery – between the initial humanitarian relief phase following major disasters, and efforts focused on reconstruction and the longer-term rehabilitation of affected households and commu…
This book addresses sustainable planning and construction after natural events such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, etc. and asserts it is yet possible, in theory and in practice, to construct in a way that provides a sustainable environment and improved conditions for current and future generations.
This book emphasizes the role of the built envir…
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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…
COBRA 2006 - the construction and building research conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors:
This exploratory paper considers the need for a more expansive view of the life cycle of infrastructure projects. This revised life cycle considers the construction professional’s ability to anticipate and respond to events, such as the India…
A report on the responses to hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma and their effect on the state of housing:
With the only point of consensus being that “things could have been done better”, this paper looks at the responses to disaster to see if any lessons can be learned and applied to future events within a long-term context. It focuses on the impact o…
This publication is a collection of the study group seminar proceedings and interviews conducted with disaster recovery experts, accompanied with analysis and reference materials towards identifying an assessment methodology for recovery community development. The research was jointly implemented with the Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC), Disaster…
Recurrent flooding is one of the most serious problems that Senegal has been facing over the last years, making it a serious concern for the Government. At the end of August 2009, heavy rainfall once again caused serious flooding in Senegal, particularly in Dakar but also in the rest of the country. The flooding was not caused by exceptionally heavy rai…
Natural hazards adversely affect hundreds of thousands of people worldwide each year and cause extensive property damage. In 2007, a year that was not considered an exceptional one for natural hazards, natural hazards caused an estimated 14,600 deaths and $70 billion in property losses. For that year, the insurance industry covered $23.3 billion in loss…
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…