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Recurrent risk and the disaster loop: A forensic approach to urban flooding thumbnail
Documents and publications

This publication examines how recurrent flooding in Guadalajara, Mexico, is not the result of isolated hydrometeorological events but the outcome of long-standing socio-spatial, institutional, and historical processes shaped by inequality.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
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Documents and publications
Publications

This study aimed to conduct a damage and loss assess ment of the households present in the nearby neighborhoods in monetary terms due to shock waves emitted from the event explosions.

Discover Applied Sciences (Springer)
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Documents and publications
Publications

This document by Habitat for Humanity highlights innovative approaches, lessons learned, and case studies of disaster recovery and resilience projects in urban settings.

Habitat for Humanity International - Headquarters
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Documents and publications

This study quantitatively analyzes how reconstruction activities caused changes in surface runoff and flooding disasters in Hezhai Village.

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Case Study
Publications

This report examines multiple urban crises and their responses, using Hiroshima, which suffered tremendous damage from the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, as a case study.

Tokyo Development Learning Center
World Bank, the
Japan - government
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Documents and publications
Publications

This report examines Nepal's existing policies regarding environmentally sustainable shelter practices, identifies gaps in these frameworks, and recommends comprehensive policy development to enhance green recovery following disasters.

Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform
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This paper reconstructs and analyses the Central Italy temporary housing supply and delivery process. It combines a meta-analysis of published documents and business process modelling to uncover links between policy, society, and space.

Cities (Elsevier)
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Documents and publications
Publications

The document focuses on the urban issues and challenges through available evidence and reports, and recommends a way forward towards integrating recommendations in relevant government legal and operational documents.

Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform
Catholic Relief Services
UK Aid
National Society for Earthquake Technology - Nepal
Responding to Displacement in Urban Recovery Approaches
Documents and publications
Publications

This document covers various aspects related to displacement-sensitive recovery using an area-based approach.

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
WRC5 Knowledge Report
Documents and publications
Publications

This knowledge report highlights the key lessons and recommendations emerging from the discussions during the 15 sessions of the 5th World Reconstruction Conference.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
World Bank, the
International Recovery Platform