International Recovery Platform

The present book is a collection of nine papers published over nearly three decades. The first one is a newspaper article on the 1976 tornado in former Faridpur district, Bangladesh. Another article published in 1991,is on the impact of river-bank erosion

This document provides a baseline on which a strategy for Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) within the Caribbean will be designed.  CDM has been defined under the DERMS project as including integrated management of all natural and human-induced

The aim of these guidelines is to provide a process for local governments to develop a local disaster management plan, and to understand the need for a consistent local government approach to disaster management planning. These guidelines will outline all of the necessary components to meet requirements under the Disaster Management Act 2003.