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This research examines the long-term recovery trajectories after Hurricane Ike (2008) in Galveston, Texas using parcel-level data for multifamily, single-family, and duplexes over an eight-year period. In the literature, there is relative consensus on how

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
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This report describes the challenges that many of Australia’s children and young people face as a result of where they live, calling for more support for them before, during and after disasters, and an urgent review of government policies.

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
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This desk review aims at evaluating gender-responsive disaster preparedness and recovery efforts in the nine CFR Caribbean countries.

World Bank, the
Seizing the urban opportunity
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Publications

The report outlines how cities can drive COVID-19 recovery, tackle climate change, and promote shared prosperity, focusing on six major emerging economies.

The Coalition for Urban Transitions
Botswana National Informal Sector Recovery Plan
Documents and publications
Publications

The primary objective of this document is to support the recovery of the informal sector in the short to medium term, while also enabling businesses to build resilience against future shocks beyond the pandemic.

Botswana - government
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This study evaluates the state of Saint-Martin’s CI before and after Hurricane Irma and reveals the indicators to assess during reconstruction projects.

Sustainability (MDPI)
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The project focuses on strengthening the capacities of local governments globally—starting with 16 partner cities— to design, implement, and monitor sustainable, resilient, and inclusive COVID-19 economic responses, recovery, and rebuilding plans. It aims

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
United Nations Capital Development Fund
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This project estimates the impact of four disasters in recent Australian history on income of individuals residing in disaster-hit areas. By defining individuals’ ability to return to their pre-disaster income levels as economic resilience, the paper

Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre
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The fortnightly briefing, produced by Alliance MBS and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, brings together international lessons for local and national government recovery and renewal in the wake of the pandemic, and has been running ever

University of Manchester
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This paper analyses the role of social capital in disaster resilience in remote communities after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Social capital is widely regarded as a key element in recovery from and resilience to disasters. Yet, little attention has been paid to the specificities of what supports or undermines remote rural communities' social capital in disasters. The paper examines how bonding, bridging, and linking social capital operated after the 2015 earthquake in three remote Nepali communities of Sindhupalchok and Gorkha Districts, which have varying degrees of access to infrastructure, relief and recovery programmes.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)