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Policy and Commitment: the Foundation of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Disaster risk management must be the responsibility of governments. However, its success also depends on widespread decision-making and the participation of many others. Policy direction and legal foundations assure legitimacy but it is the professional and human resources available, on the ground, that are a true measure of success.This paper discuss on the introduction to institutional frameworks for disaster reduction; policy frameworks in practice; national planning processes, with more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 22, 2009

Risk Assessment

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Risk assessments include detailed quantitative and qualitative understanding of risk, its physical, social, economic and environmental factors and consequences. It is a necessary first step for any serious consideration of disaster reduction strategies.A methodology to determine the nature and extent of risk by analyzing potential hazards and evaluating existing conditions of vulnerability that could pose a potential threat or harm to people, property, livelihoods and the environment on which more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 22, 2009

Understanding the Nature of Risk

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Disaster risk is part of every day life. Awareness of risk is therefore a necessary condition to engage in disaster risk reduction. A focus on risk management, rather than on disaster events alone, reflects a proactive attitude for dealing with potential threats to social and material assets, before they are lost. The analysis and lessons learned from prior experiences of disasters help to define profiles of risk related to people, activities and places that share attributes, in the face of more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 22, 2009

Contexts and Policy Framework of Disaster Risk Reduction: Sustainable Development

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In today’s world, societies are confronted with rapid change. Therefore, the value of disaster risk reduction can only be realized through rigorous identification and continuous evaluation of the relationships that exist between the beliefs and conditions in which people live, the changing environment people inhabit and depend upon for their livelihoods, and the forces of nature.Political support for disaster risk reduction has to be established from the apex of political power but is only more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 22, 2009

GFDRR Track 1, Building Global and Regional Partnership: Giving Risk Reduction a Regional Dimension

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This report provides feedback after the first two years of operation of the Global Facility, and demonstrates the significant value it has brought to the implementation of the Hyogo Framework around the world, as the Global Platform for Disaster Reduction convenes for its second session in June 2009. It provides concrete examples of the manner in which regional approaches, through GFDRR Track I, has increased awareness, political commitment and investments in risk reduction interventions at more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 16, 2009

Global Risk Data Platform

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The Preview Global Risk Data Platform is a multiple agencies effort to share spatial data information on global risk from natural hazards. Users can visualize, download or extract data on past hazardous events, human & economical hazard exposure and risk from natural hazards. It covers tropical cyclones and related storm surges, drought, earthquakes, biomass fires, floods, landslides, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. The collection of data is made via a wide range of partners (see about for more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 16, 2009

ISDR system joint work programme 2008-2009: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters

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The joint work programme is to promote system wide coherence and coordinated action to support the implementation of the Hyogo Framework. With this in mind, a common approach to work programming in the ISDR system was developed during the 2006-2007 biennium in the context of the former Inter-Agency Task Force on Disaster Reduction and presented to the first session of the Global Platform5. Those consultations gave rise to an ISDR system joint planning framework for country, regional and global more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on April 23, 2009

Planet prepare: Asia Pacific disaster report

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This World Vision report not only looks at the latest research around climate change but also examines how communities from Bangladesh to Papua New Guinea are being severely impacted by storms and sea level rise. The report says billions needs to be spent on strengthening community resilience in villages and cities, educating children to be disaster ready, putting in place disaster-resistant infrastructure and early warning systems, and giving people new job options. For the report more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on February 26, 2009

Disaster risk, livelihoods and natural barriers, strengthening decision-making tools for disaster risk reduction: a case study from Northern Pakistan

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The goal of this interdisciplinary study is to better understand the land use factors that increase vulnerability of mountain areas in northern Pakistan. The study will identify and analyse the damages and losses caused by the October 2005 earthquake in two areas of the same valley: one 'low-risk' watershed with sound natural resources management, the other, 'high-risk' in an ecologically degraded watershed. Secondly, the study will examine natural and man-made causes of secondary hazards in more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on February 09, 2009

Convergence of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

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This study diagnoses why climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction have been treated somewhat separately to date, makes a case for further convergence and presents a set of concrete recommendations on how this can be achieved. Source(s): Department for International Development (DFID); Publication date: 2008 Number of pages: 22p; (PDF: 343.19kb)

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on February 01, 2009

The Lessons of Mumbai

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'This study of the Mumbai, India, terrorist attack of November 2008 identifies the operational and tactical capabilities displayed by the terrorists and evaluates the response of the Indian security forces. The authors draw out the implications of the incident for India, Pakistan, and the international community and derive lessons learned from the attack and from the Indian response. Their goal is to develop findings that may help counterterrorism authorities in India and elsewhere to prepare more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on January 22, 2009

Laws of war under threat in densely-populated Gaza

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'The crisis in Gaza raises serious questions about the means and methods of warfare in densely populated areas. Past experiences in Sarajevo, Grozny and Baghdad show how the conduct of war in contexts of high civilian concentration intensifies the consequences for civilian populations.'

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on January 19, 2009

Disaster Risk Reduction: Implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA)

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Disasters cost lives, destroy communities, wreck havoc on people’s livelihoods and leave a lasting impact not only on physical infrastructure but also on people’s psycho-social well-being. Although the number of deaths from disasters has dropped over the last ten years, more people are being affected and the economic consequences are becoming ever more severe. In development terms, disasters can have a devastating economic impact both at the household and community level as well as the national more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on December 21, 2008

Tracking the money: international experience with financial information systems and databases for reconstruction

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In the aftermath of major humanitarian crises, whether caused by natural disasters or conflicts, the international community has pledged increasingly large amounts of aid to help rebuild devastated regions. All donors—public and private—of aid programs have a strong interest in ensuring that their resources are well spent. To address that concern and capture the flow of the resources, tracking systems have been developed and applied. Today, several database systems exist, most notably the more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on November 19, 2008

Climate Change and Displacement

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In response to growing pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving, communities are adapting. This issue of Force Migration Review (FMR) debates the numbers, the definitions and the modalities – and the tension between the need for research and the need to act. Thirty-eight articles by UN, academic, international and local actors explore the extent of the potential displacement crisis, community adaptation and coping strategies, and the search for solutions. Full document in PDF more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on October 23, 2008

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