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This paper discusses the role of resource rights in pre-disaster resilience and post-disaster reconstruction.

This report provides the insight of relief and recovery efforts after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in South East Asia are burdened by extreme competitiveness and lack of collective action.

Contribution to the Annual Forum of the International Recovery Platform (IRP) 26-27 January 2009, Kobe, Japan

The purpose of this paper is to provide an introductory review of the current status of recovery operations in terms of integrating environment

This document presents a case study in institusionalizing disaster risk management in higher education and training institutions.

This document presents volunteers' activities in preventing and reducing vulnerability to natural disasters, as an effective support system in the wake of a disaster, and in post-disaster reconstruction efforts. It also features the need to factor

In this report, the Secretaries-General of the Commonwealth resolves to:
(a) develop inventories of the advance warning resources and systems available in each of the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific Ocean regions; and through this, to
(b) identify aspects

This document is the proceedings of a meeting on “Role of Information and Communications Technology for Disaster Reduction”, which was jointly organized by Asia-Pacific Telecommunity and the International Telecommunication Union on the 28th of February

This report sets out to give a description of the professional efforts, the challenges faced and the lessons learned by European NGOs in the Tsunami disaster. At the same time it puts forward a number of recommendations to the European Union aimed at