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Displaying 7 of about 7 resultsA slow-moving tropical depression caused persistent heavy rains in the Solomon Islands between April 1 and April 4, 2014. The rains caused flash flooding in Honiara, Guadalcanal, Isabel, Malaita,and Makira-Ulawa. The flooding was the worst in living memory in some locations. It caused 22 fatalities across the country, internally displaced some 10,000 pe…
Community infrastructure primarily refers to small scale basic structures, technical facilities and systems built at the community level that are critical for sustenance of lives and livelihoods of the population living in a community. These are low-cost small-scale infrastructures built over time through community-led initiatives according to the needs…
The Transport Sector, in accordance with the most recent International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities of the world-wide System of National Accounts includes the following set of activities to move both persons and cargo:
Road transport
Railroad transport
Pipeline transport
Air transport
Transport support, inclu…
The Telecommunications sub-sector may sustain destruction of its physical assets–which may include buildings and equipment as well as telephone lines and switchboards–as well as changes in its production flows, which may involve both decline in sales through interruption or slowdown in transmissions and/or increases in the costs of operation and pr…
This report presents a post-disaster needs assessment conducted after the floods and landslides that occurred in Serbia at the end of May 2014. It considers the repair, reconstruction, expansion and improvement of floods control works as well as the improved disposal of waste from mining and other productive activities as essential to risk reduction. It…
This chapter is intended primarily for members of the PDNA WASH Assessment Team to help them understand the scope of WASH assessments, the challenges and the requirements of an Assessment Team and the limitations within which such assessments are being made. It will also orient national governments, the appropriate authorities and their representatives…
This book consolidates a set of 36 knowledge notes highlighting key lessons learned in seven disaster risk management (DRM) thematic clusters: (i) structural measures; (ii) nonstructural measures; (iii) emergency response; (iv) reconstruction planning; (v) hazard and risk information and decision making; (vi) the economics of disaster risk, risk managem…