International Recovery Platform

International Recovery Forum 2024

Accelerating Progress with Building Back Better: Resilient Recovery in the Face of Rising Climate Risks

24-25 January 2024 | Kobe, Japan and Online

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23 -24 May 2022, BALI

The Fifth Edition of the World Reconstruction Conference (WRC5)

Reconstructing for a sustainable future: Building resilience through recovery in a COVID-19 Transformed World

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Case Study

7 August 2015

Comparing the direct human impact of natural disasters for two (surprisingly similar) cases: the Christchurch earthquake and Bangkok flood of 2011

The paper implements a novel way to aggregate the separate measures of disaster impact - the number of fatalities, of injuries, of people otherwise affected, and the financial damage that natural disasters cause.

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Case Study

7 August 2015

Building back better: case studies in resilience building

The publication showcases community initiatives from China (Sichuan), Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore to provide valuable lessons for the future.

Documents and publications

3 August 2015

Integrated research on disaster risk conference: special issue

Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, Volume 19, Special Issue:

The Second Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Conference was held in Beijing, China, on the 7th to 9th of June, 2014. This event gathered a diverse international combination