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Displaying 4 of about 4 resultsThis collaboration between Lancaster University and Save the Children researched children and young people’s experiences of the UK winter 2013/14 floods. The authors used creative arts methods to work with flood-affected children and communicate their ideas to policy. Children, in fact are often ignored in disaster-related planning and policy devel…
This document provides a review of Japan’s Program for Earthquake-Resistant School Buildings. Japan’s ongoing efforts to mitigate earthquake risk and improve the seismic safety of schools involve learning from the experience of earthquakes, advancing engineering knowledge and technology, accumulating data, and exercising the political will to…
Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 143, March 2016:
This issue of the newsletter is a compendium of perspectives and views by a group of students from Oxford Brookes University that visited 2 districts of Gujarat to study the long-term impacts of recovery from the 2001 earthquake. Contributions from John Twigg and other reputed academics are also include…
The declaration was endorsed by Heads of Government, Ministers, and Heads of Delegation of countries in Asia and the Pacific, on 5 November 2016, as an outcome of the first Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) following the adoption of the Sendai Framework. The declaration calls on disaster risk reduction (DRR) sta…