Urban Risk & Planning

This journal focuses on the environment and disaster related issues in the Asian region. It provides a forum to communicate research findings, not only through academic research, but also incorporating field based action research. It aims to establish

This document brings together messages from donors, INGOs, advocacy groups and research organisations, contributing a concise article indicating the failures and successes they have observed over this first year of disaster response, and their opinions on

This conference report summarises the key messages conveyed during the debates by the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) and its partners, both inside and outside government, stating that bridging the urban divide is the starting point

The Asia-Pacific disaster report, 2010:

This report addresses the exponential increase of disaster risks in Asia-Pacific, as a result of the compounding effects of inequitable economic growth patterns, population pressures and extreme climatic events

This article discusses why unusually heavy monsoon rains in northern Pakistan had such a devastating impact across the entire Indus River basin. It analyses what can be done to accelerate progress towards implementation of the Hyogo Framework and what

This publication describes UNEP's engagement in the post-disaster recovery effort following the earthquake in the Sichuan Province, China on 12 May 2008. It outlines the key achievements of UNEP's engagement in the country from 2008 to 2010, which focused

UN-DESA policy brief no. 28:

This document addresses the challenge of sustainable reconstruction for Haiti following the earthquake of 7.0 on the Richter scale in early January 2010. It targets Haiti's need to rebuild its entire economy in a sustainable

...and urgent actions required in all disaster-prone countries to improve disaster-risk assessment, prevention and mitigation:

This resolution, adopted unanimously by the 122nd IPU Assembly in Bangkok, 1 April 2010, acknowledges that both disasters and

This report evaluates the performance of the New Orleans hurricane protection system and studies the vulnerabilities posed to the city and the region by hurricanes. More specifically, the objectives of the study are defined as: (i) the design and status

This document reports on an opinion poll undertaken with the objective of defining Haitians' perception (from diverse social classes) on several topics related to the post-earthquake situation. It is intended to help develop advocacy and appeal tools in order to help local, state, and non-state actors take ownership of post-earthquake reconstruction processes.