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Displaying 15 of about 57 resultsA statute to establish the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program in the United States. Section (a)(2)(B) states that purpose of the statute is to promote the adoption of earthquake hazards reduction measures by federal, state, and local governments, national standards and model code organizations, architects and engineers, building owners, and o…
Disaster preparedness and mitigation in the Americas, issue 117, April 2012, special edition:
This issue focuses on safe hospitals. It calls on the Ministers of Health of the Americas who signed the Plan of Action on Safe Hospitals for having safer health facilities by 2015, proposing to revisit some issues relevant to this topic, and to take action n…
This guide contains information to help readers better understand the areas of their home or business that are more vulnerable to earthquake damage and offers solutions to minimize the risk of property losses. Key topics covered include: (i) the relationship between home or business and an earthquake; (ii) key areas of home or business that are especial…
This document is the final report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Queensland floods of 2010/2011, established following the flooding of historic proportions in Queensland in December 2010, stretching into January 2011. It embodies both likelihood of flooding
and the consequences of flood when it comes.
The report begins with an examination of flo…
This report represents one of the first attempts to compile all research on the impacts of climate change on the built environment in the United States and to link impacts with strategies for addressing them. It explores how climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts at all scales interact synergistically, with a focus on how green building profes…
This publication provides a compilation of 25 case studies of schools from 12 countries affected by 6 different hazards in an effort to understand the recovery processes of schools from natural disasters. It links the recovery lessons to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) in the education sector (E-HFA) through sixteen tasks that constitute a framewor…
This year’s World Disasters Report (WDR) focuses on forced migration and on the people forcibly displaced by conflict, political upheaval, violence, disasters, climate change and development projects, whose numbers are increasing inexorably each year. To explain the crises of disaster and displacement, it points at the lack of disaster risk reduction (D…
The report contains two recommendations aimed at improving the Hazard Mitigation Planning programme, which was designed to encourage state, tribal, and local jurisdictions to (i) identify the natural hazards that affect them and (ii) implement projects that will reduce losses from disasters, including development of land use and building code regulation…
This report presents country’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as cyclone, flood, earthquake and drought, and describes governmental and institutional structures responsible for disaster management in Bangladesh.
The report discusses major accomplishments in disaster reduction during the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDN…
This publication reports on the outcomes of a pilot project to ‘operationalize’ the Making Cities Resilient Campaign in three cities in Africa – Narok and Kisumu in Kenya and Moshi in Tanzania, commenced in 2012 by the UNISDR regional office for Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. It also describes disaster prevention activities undertaken by pilot cities, an…
A declaration endorsed by Heads of Government, Ministers, and Heads of Delegation of countries in Asia and the Pacific, as an outcome of the Fifth Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR), calling on disaster risk reduction (DRR) stakeholders to: (i) participate fully in the consultations leading to the post-2015 Development Agen…
The resolution considers that the following prevention measures should be the subject of priority support from the EU to the member states:
• Drafting and revising building safety and land use legislation
• Action to remedy situations conducive to future risks: restoring and protecting river basins, wetlands and related eco-systems
• Protecting and ref…
Working Paper # 2012-07, March 2012:
This paper discusses a methodology that makes use of advanced probabilistic catastrophe models to estimate benefits of disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures, especially for low- and middle income countries, which have suffered disproportionally more economic and human losses from disasters.
Newly developed models ar…
This report is a compendium of understanding, concepts, experiences and lessons of disaster risk management (DRM), emergency response planning and capacity building in Nepal. It also provides a chronology of the development of DRM processes in the country including government's initiatives in creating suitable policy and legal environments for effective…
This document intends to support the research for additional, wider and more fundamental explanations for the on-going rise in disaster losses, through scientific knowledge, planning and design of infrastructure and human settlements, major policy choices, social and cultural practices, beliefs and perceptions, as well as the evolution and proliferation…