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Displaying 15 of about 89 resultsCyclone Evan hit Samoa in December 2012 and caused immense damage and significant losses. The value of durable physical assets across all economic and social sectors destroyed by Evan is estimated at SAT 235.7 million, equivalent to US$103.3 million. In addition, production losses and higher production costs arising from the disaster across all sectors…
Australian Red Cross has developed this suite of lesson plans to help teachers educate students from pre-school to year 12 about important emergency preparedness and recovery information.
Endorsed by the Australian Psychologists Society and the Australia Child & Adolescent Trauma, Loss and Grief Network, the lesson plans were developed by teachers…
This handbook seeks to unpack the problems that many organizations are confronted with, while providing step-by-step guidance on how to design and implement housing reconstruction programmes in cities. It describes the specific dimensions of reconstruction and rehousing strategies, providing context-based options that have proven successful in recent di…
A report on recovery and rebuilding in southern Alberta:
This paper sets out 12 recommendations on actions the Government of Alberta can take to reduce the risk of flood damage to homes. It was prepared at the request of the Insurance Bureau of Canada following the flooding in southern Alberta in June 2013, which resulted in four fatalities and unprec…
This book makes a thorough analysis of each and every aspect of the management of the Gujarat earthquake of 2001, starting from disaster response to reconstruction, rehabilitation and recovery, focusing on lessons learned and emphasizing on how to improve the system for better results. It addresses the common concern of building disaster resilient count…
The preparation of this National Progress Report has been undertaken within the framework of the biennial 2011-13 HFA Monitoring and Progress Review process, facilitated by UNISDR and ISDR System partners.
The progress report assesses current national strategic priorities with regard to the implementation of disaster risk reduction actions, and establi…
In Spanish:
El objetivo de este trabajo fue describir cómo se formularon las estrategias y los proyectos de recuperación después de las inundaciones que afectaron a buena parte del país, durante el primer semestre del año 2008. También se examinan las iniciativas puestas en marcha por la Municipalidad del Cantón Cevallos para superar los impactos de l…
Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture was one of the coastal cities in the Northeast Tohoku Region which was heavily affected by the East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (EJET) that took lives of over 1,200 people, affected 80.8% of the business and deprived 83.5% of the population from their jobs. However, the city was not entirely unprepared to disasters,…
This document reports on a workshop addressing the problems and impacts of floods and aiming to provide more understandable and action-oriented information to policymakers in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region (Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka), in order to develop a regional road map…
This background note addresses the cost effectiveness of investing in resilience when compared with approaches that rely exclusively on ex-post response and recovery, and the lack of funding towards disaster prevention and preparedness, which can build the resilience of communities to cope with emergencies. It considers emergency preparedness as a capac…
'Let's get involved!':
This document outlines ACT Alliance's commitment to humanitarian principles, the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), how ACT aims to meet its disaster resilience commitments through the post-HFA framework, and how ACT members can get involved.
It affirms that: (i) ACT Alliance members have been encouraged to adopt a disaster risk…
Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology, N.S. 8:
This study addresses the relationship between memory, morality and social inequality and discusses the implications for questions regarding vulnerability, resilience and adaptation. The study examines how past flooding is remembered by flood victims in the middle- and low-income districts and by activi…
This manual is intended to provide methodological and practical guidance to ACF field workers on how to implement Participatory Capacity and Vulnerability Assessment (PCVA) so as to design and initiate stand-alone or mainstreamed DRM actions at the community level. The guiding questions of the manual serve to examine the factors of risk and vulnerabilit…
This knowledge note focuses on various aspects of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and environmental management, including studies on: (i) developing record of school experiences from the East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (EJET); (ii) building school-based disaster resilient community, which includes a review of past DRR activities; (iii) interlinking DRR…
This final report provides the direction of Japan’s disaster management for the future based on the lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake to fulfill the promises in the future. Since the disaster, the government has been establishing many opportunities for discussion in order to (a) verify the response to the Great East Japan Earthquake;…