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The purpose of the course is to provide comprehensive disaster management knowledge and skills to enhance the capabilities of executive managers who have key disaster management responsibilities. It is designed to enable professionals working in disaster management, development and donor agencies to effectively integrate disaster management in…
This Guide has been created to provide advice on useful strategies for implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (HFA). It represents a distillation of the wealth of experience that exists throughout the world on how to manage and reduce disaster risks. The Guide can help state…
DegreeDiploma.DescriptionThe programme provides students with a fundamental understanding of Emergency Management in diverse operational environments including those of the Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Energy Transmission, Forestry, Transportation, Agriculture and Public sector. The program enables students with broad practical skills to effectively su…
This publication provides 35 good practices and lessons learned as concrete examples of how to make children safer in their classrooms and educate them about disasters.
This book provides guidance, policy orientation and inspiration, as well as serving as a reference for lessons on how to reduce risk and vulnerability to hazards and to meet the challenges of tomorrow. It is intended for people who have an interest in and practice disaster risk management and sustainable development.
Natural hazards can affect anyone,…
This review examines good practices to reduce disaster risk through education, knowledge and innovation (including efforts to protect schools from extreme natural events). It looks critically and strategically at current activities in order to identify gaps, opportunities in the form of synergisms and partnerships, and centres of innovation. Education,…
This project report from UNESCO provides details of the work completed under the “Educational materials for education for natural disaster preparedness in Asia-Pacific in the context of education for sustainable development” project. Details of the development of culturally appropriate and locally relevant educational material for natural disaster prepa…
A fully illustrated book Real Risk offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in the light of major natural disasters that have occurred since the publication of Know Risk in early 2005. It brings together the knowledge and experiences of public and private organisations working toward disaster preparedness…
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The program aims to introduce the students with issues of personal security and security planning and development issues. To enhance the learning experience students are provided with a field-based experience on matters such as microbiological water testing and remediation of earthquake-damaged structures. The program focuses on emergency p…
When large-scale disasters occur, they typically strike without warning, regardless of whether the cause is natural, such as a tsunami or earthquake, or man-made, such as a terrorist attack. And immediately following a hazardous event or mass violence, two of the most vulnerable groups at risk are a community’s children and their family members. This bo…
The MSc in Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management embraces this holistic approach. The programme imparts a combination of specialist earthquake engineering knowledge and an understanding of the social, economic and political impact of earthquake events in order to produce engineers which can provide holistic design solutions and be able to work…
Booklet on volcanoes published by UN/ISDR for the 2002 World Disaster Reduction Campaign “Disaster reduction for sustainable mountain development”.
Advances in natural and technological hazards research, vol. 21
Natural disasters, response, recovery, and mitigation are important topics for policy makers, sustainable development specialists, technical experts and teachers. The occurrences and distributions of natural disaster events and the responses and mitigation practices associated with them a…
Vietnam’s geography makes it one of the most disaster-prone countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Every year its long coastline is hit by several typhoons that breach sea dykes and cause damage to houses, crops and aquaculture. The mangrove plantations act as a buffer zone, reducing the speed of sea water, wave strength and wind force. It means that the…