International Recovery Platform

This paper discusses various strategies and approaches on post-disaster shelter construction, especially regarding transitional shelter, and presents case studies from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines and Haiti.

The lessons learned

This report presents the findings from Work Package 3 (WP3, Vulnerability) of the STREVA (Strengthening Resilience in Volcanic Areas) project’s research conducted in the communities surrounding La Soufriere Volcano in the island of St. Vincent, West

This collaboration between Lancaster University and Save the Children researched children and young people’s experiences of the UK winter 2013/14 floods. The authors used creative arts methods to work with flood-affected children and communicate their ideas to policy. Children, in fact are often ignored in disaster-related planning and policy development.