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Displaying 6 of about 6 resultsThis note provides practical guidance to national governments about key priorities for the education sector following a major disaster or crisis. It specifies a set of considerations and actions to help ensure that the education sector can:
maintain its core functions in the midst of a crisis;
allow for streamlined recovery from shocks;
minimi…
Eight years after the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and two years after the Japanese government lifted evacuation orders in areas of Namie and Iitate, radiation levels remain too high for the safe return of thousands of Japanese citizen evacuees.
This report summarizes information from Greenpeace’s latest extensive radiation survey in…
This report, conducted by the University of Lancaster in collaboration with other institutions, details the findings from a participatory research project that set out to identify key issues in children and young people’s experience in relation to resilience to flooding and the flood recovery process following the 2007 Kensington-upon-Hull flood, which…
The purpose of Including Children with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action is to strengthen the inclusion of children and women with disabilities, and their families, in emergency preparedness, response and early recovery, and recovery and reconstruction. This series of booklets provides insight into the situation of children with disabilities in humani…
This predominantly qualitative research into long-term disaster resilience identifies what helps and hinders individual and community resilience in disasters. It documents the experiences and wisdom of 56 disaster survivors nine years after the 2009 Black Saturday fires and up to 50 years after earlier fires and floods in Victoria, including the 1983 As…
Disasters place affected populations in great danger. Only in recent years have we recognized the importance of emotional impact and its short, median, and longterm consequences. Children and adolescents are an especially vulnerable group, since the reaction to disaster in these age groups depends on their psychosocial developmental stage, individual ch…