This PDNA takes stock of physical damage to property, infrastructure, and productive assets as well as to account for losses resulting from the disruption of economic flows brought on by the 2012 Tropical Cyclone Evan.
This book offers an up-to-date resource covering both methodological and technical aspects of disaster mitigation, involving adequate risk assessment and the implementation of risk reduction strategies. It is based on Latin American experiences of
This report describes country’s disaster risks and natural hazards, such as flood, earthquake, storm, drought and wildfire, and presents governmental and institutional structures responsible for disaster management in Mongolia.
This paper presents New Zealand’s four-stage approach termed Comprehensive Emergency Management (CEM) that covers reduction, readiness, response and recovery. It also discusses key features of risk-based emergency management and outlines country’s
This case study presents emergency management practices in place for the city of Wellington, and discusses all hazards approach and different phases of the comprehensive emergency management concept.
Nepal’s national action plan on disaster management consists of four main plans on: disaster preparedness, disaster response, disaster reconstruction and rehabilitation action, and disaster mitigation. The plan is presented in the form of a matrix indicating priority item groups, activities, time schedule, and executing agencies.
This report is focused on the work carried out by two of Oxfam’s partner organisations – the Doaba Foundation and the Help Foundation – in Muzaffargarh and Rajanpur districts of Pakistan’s Punjab Province. Over 21,700 people residing in 60 villages of
This paper presents Japan’s natural and social conditions subject to occurrence of natural disasters and outlines countermeasures for disaster prevention such as integrated flood control, forest conservation and erosion control, and earthquake disaster countermeasures. The document discusses country’s basic legal and institutional framework and related plans for disaster prevention and describes recovery, relief and international cooperation activities.
This document describes disaster conditions in Japan, presents legal and institutional framework and disaster prevention plans, and discusses current major disaster prevention measures related to research and development, preparedness, national land conservation, emergency and recovery.