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Displaying 120 of about 126 resultsThe guide describes the role of agriculture in a country’s development and the potential impact that natural disasters can have on the sector. It recommends the types of agriculture interventions to be implemented in the short-, medium- and long-term stages of recovery and reconstruction taking into consideration DRR and BBB aspects.
It then highlights…
This report explores the current situation of internally displaced people (IDPs) three years after the last drought in 2017, looking at the same locations as the research carried out in 2019. It examines local integration efforts carried out through livelihood projects and how these can serve as durable solutions to displacement.
Findings are based on…
This paper proposes a methodology based on a multi-layer Monte Carlo simulation to model a two-stage recovery process for residential buildings: functional downtime due to delay and functional downtime due to repair. The delay portion of the model was modified based on the REDi framework and models the impeding factors that delay repairs such…
The fortnightly briefing, produced by Alliance MBS and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, brings together international lessons for local and national government recovery and renewal in the wake of the pandemic, and has been running ever since the start of the crisis.
This week’s Briefing also outlines some key challenges faced, and the…
The article claims that to those affected, disaster is an existential experience. For them, it is an unexpected existential ‘event’ clearly separating a ‘before’ from an ‘after’. In the academic disaster domain however the ‘disaster as event’ is being eroded both by complexity approaches and critical approaches, which both, if for different reasons, con…
This report details how previous studies have documented the negative impacts and unexpected secondary effects of post-disaster housing development. Here, it builds on this tradition to explore how post-disaster urban planning and risk mitigation measures affect internal migrations after a major disaster.
In the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan E…
The project focuses on strengthening the capacities of local governments globally—starting with 16 partner cities— to design, implement, and monitor sustainable, resilient, and inclusive COVID-19 economic responses, recovery, and rebuilding plans. It aims to contribute to planning for more resilient cities and local governments that are better able to m…
This paper analyses the role of social capital in disaster resilience in remote communities after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Social capital is widely regarded as a key element in recovery from and resilience to disasters. Yet, little attention has been paid to the specificities of what supports or undermines remote rural communities' social capital in d…
The report focuses on the South Japan flooding of July 2020, and tries to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected both the preparedness and the recovery. As highlighted in the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Risk Report, the world has been undergoing increasingly complex risk landscapes over the recent years, and it is not enough to have po…
This paper assesses why Vietnam has not been as effective in dealing with environmental and climate challenges as with the COVID-19 crisis, which are arguably different but have also many similarities. The successful experience in implementing the right measures at the right time during the COVID-19 crisis deserves more attention as it can inspire polic…
This dataset proposes a method that combines different drought indices (SPI, soil moisture anomalies and fAPAR anomalies) in order to identify areas affected by agricultural drought and also areas with the potential to be affected. Drought monitoring is based on various indices: the standardized precipitation index (SPI), which shows the deviation from…
This article focuses on decision making for retrofit investment of road networks in order to alleviate severe consequences of roadside tree blowdown during tropical cyclones. The consequences include both the physical damage associated with roadside trees and the functional degradation associated with road networks. A trilevel, two-stage, and multiobjec…
This report, the first in a series, examines in detail the intertwined effects of the pandemic and climate change, and analyzes how these affect the prospects and ability of countries to recover better. In particular, the report highlights how smart adaptation strategies can contribute to better health outcomes, environmental benefits, and economic reco…
This report considers what role insurance played in restoring local economic activity and reducing the longterm impacts of these natural disasters. It examines three severe natural disaster events in Australia between 2019 and 2020: the Townsville floods, Black Summer bushfires, and East Coast hailstorms. Events of this kind are becoming increasingly co…
This issue of Southasiadisasters.net offers a detailed overview of the various direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. India now holds the dubious distinction of having the second highest number of COVID-19 cases trailing only to the United States of America. As India settles to live with the "new normal" of rising COVID-19…