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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Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) for Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai Volcanic Eruption

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PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

1 July 2022

Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) for Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai Volcanic Eruption

This is the Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation report on the January 15 eruption, providing estimated costs of the physical damages caused by the volcanic eruption and tsunami.

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22 June 2022

Disaster risk resilience: conceptual evolution, key issues, and opportunities

This paper presents a selection of 25 components used to define resilience, and an interesting linkage emerges between these components and the dimensions of risk management.

Response and Recovery after Maria Lessons for Disaster Law and Policy

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Publications

22 June 2022

Response and Recovery after Maria: Lessons for Disaster Law and Policy

This article analyzes the reasons for the flawed response to the 2017 Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and proposes improvements in future disaster policy.