This document describes how Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) enables Fiji and Tonga, pacific island states, to assess disaster and climate risk and rapidly identify damage to the environment in post-disaster situations.
This research is aimed at monitoring the recovery of coastal land use during 10 years of the recovery process and at investigating the influence of the recovery process on the community livelihood.
This paper looks at how community-based recovery initiatives in Turkey following the 1999 earthquakes have transformed into initiatives around larger issues of building resilience and risk reduction. It examines the nature of their relationships with the
This guidance note is intended to provide action-oriented guidance to government officials facing post-disaster recovery challenges related to the transport sector.
This case study explores how Japan developed guidelines for local governments to plan and implement assessment and retrofitting projects, and established a national subsidy programme for school assessments and retrofits.
This document details Uzbekistan's efforts to retrofit or rebuild over 8,500 seismically unsafe school buildings. The initiative aimed to enhance earthquake resilience in schools with assessments, structural interventions, and interagency cooperation.
The core objective of the project to engage diverse stakeholder groups to share knowledge, address information needs and drive action to advance flood resiliency in Canada in the face of changing climate and extreme weather.
The White Paper on Disaster Management in Japan 2016 provides an update on the status of disaster management measures in Japan, with a particular focus on those implemented in FY2015