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This case study presents emergency management practices in place for the city of Wellington, and discusses all hazards approach and different phases of the comprehensive emergency management concept.

Wellington City Council
Responding to Urban Disasters: Learning from previous relief and recovery operations
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This paper outlines key lessons related to the design and implementation of urban disaster-response programmes. It focuses on the response and early recovery phases of an urban emergency, and on natural disasters such as earthquakes and flooding.

Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance (ALNAP)
Closing the loop- Responding to people's information needs from crisis response to recovery to development: A case study of post-earthquake Haiti
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This paper, a review of an Internews humanitarian-information radio program launched in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake that devastated the country.

Internews
Long Term Recovery Efforts in Cloudburst Affected Urban Area of Leh
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This case study is about how a small city known largely as a tourist attraction coped with the devastating flash floods caused by a sudden cloudburst.

All India Disaster Mitigation Institute
Resilient Urban Communities: Stories from the Ketsana Rehabilitation Programme
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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.”

Christian Aid
Lessons in Community Recovery
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This report presents lessons learned from emergency support provided for long-term community recovery by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Rising to the Call: Good Practices in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in the Philippines
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This book provides reference documents of good practices and integration and the use of local knowledge and action to mitigate the impacts of disasters.

Oxfam International Secretariat
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This paper presents the achievements of a pilot project aiming to reinforce Bogotá's ability to manage 'natural' disasters on a grand scale and develop a policy framework for the planning of early recovery efforts during these events.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)