All Recovery Resources

All Recovery Resources
Items: 1795
2001

This is an all-purpose handbook on how to build sustainability into a community during the recovery period after a disaster. It has background information, practical descriptions, and ideas about what sustainability is, why it is a good for a community

Natural Hazards Center Diane Publishing
2005

This brief summarizes the clear priorities for governments and others as an outcome of the emergency summit meeting held on 6 January 2005 in Jakarta. The meeting represented world governments’ unprecedented response to the tsunami that struck the

Oxfam International Secretariat
1997

On September 5, 1996, Hurricane Fran made landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina, and generated considerable rainfall, moderately high winds, and storm surge and waves along the coast. This report focuses on the damages along the North Carolina coast

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
2005

Survivors of the Asian tsunami report that there were several massive waves that in rapid succession hammered the coast the Andaman Ocean provinces of Phang Nga, Phuket, Krabi, and Ranong, Trang and Satun on the morning of December 26, 2004. Those walls

International Labour Organization
2006

One of the areas of importance to effective risk reduction lies in the provision of safe, structurally secure shelter, which is closely related to the sustainability issues of the type of construction, for example. It is important for the reconstruction

All India Disaster Mitigation Institute
2005
This report focuses on lessons from the recovery period following the 1998 floods.
World Bank, the
2007

The 28 March 2005 earthquake devastated the island of Nias, an already very poor region before the disaster hit . The March earthquake - coming less than three months after the December 2004 tsunami that also affected Nias - killed almost 1,000 people and

World Bank, the
2007
This manual explains how the choice of appropriate design and construction methods and sustainable materials and technologies during the planning, implementation and maintenance phases of reconstruction can protect natural resources and reduce energy consumption and pollution. Sustainable reconstruction management provides numerous environmental, safety and financial benefits.
United Nations Environment Programme
2004
This is the first review of recovery in Honduras that examines all sectors.
World Bank, the
2007
This brief report presents economic Impacts of the Kobe and Marmara Earthquakes.
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) - Headquarters