Urban Risk & Planning

These proceedings outline the outcomes and conclusions of the regional workshop addressing disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, inlcuding: panel discussions on a) Governability and development planning, b) Risk reduction measures and

This article discusses a long-established land management tool that has attracted recent attention-land readjustment (LR)-and describes how selected elements of this tool are being adopted to assist post-earthquake reconstruction efforts in Chile.

The Ketsana Rehabilitation Programme sought to “enable urban poor communities seriously affected by Typhoon Ketsana to recover from their loss and strengthen their capacities to sustain their lives and livelihoods.”

Two years after the earthquake in Haiti, this recommends for advancing the issue that nearly 500,000 internally displaced persons by increasing capacity in the land tenure system, and the modernization of the cadastral map and titling system.

Este documento afirma que el desastre después del terremoto en la Región Ica, ha planteado dilemas operativos sobre el manejo, respuesta y reconstrucción de ciudades después de un impacto de gran proporción y abierto interrogantes sobre la seguridad de

This plan identifies systematic measures that the municipal government and citizens should jointly implement in an organized manner for the earliest possible restoration and recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake.

This document questions how much less the cost of rehabilitating water and sanitation systems might have been if public investment projects and management of urban utilities (companies in charge of the water and sanitation provision), had incorporated

The aim of this document is to support local governments to develop a community-specific disaster management system, including governance arrangements, a Local Disaster Management Plan and supporting plans, using the comprehensive approach to disaster management.

This short publication responds to calls from AusAID staff for simple, practical guidance on what integration of disaster risk reduction, climate change and the environment may mean for their programs. While there is general consensus that these issues

This book was published for launch at the third Session of Global Platform for Disaster Reduction (GPDR) and it is the latest in a series of volumes addressing natural disasters, and how their impact can be reduced by effective capacity building and