International Recovery Platform

The US philanthropic efforts following the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis in Japan were remarkable, making it the fifth most generous overseas disaster response in US history for another developed country.

This assessment provides the damages, loss, and needs across fourteen sectors impacted by the 2014 floods in Serbia. A section of the assessment covers the guiding principles for sustainable recovery and reconstruction, as well as recommendations for the country’s disaster risk management agenda.

This book consolidates a set of 36 knowledge notes highlighting key lessons learned in seven disaster risk management (DRM) thematic clusters: (i) structural measures; (ii) nonstructural measures; (iii) emergency response; (iv) reconstruction planning; (v) hazard and risk information and decision making; (vi) the economics of disaster risk, risk management, and risk financing; and (vii) recovery and relocation.