The White Paper on Disaster Management in Japan 2017 provides an overview of current disaster management measures in Japan, including recent progress on disaster measures and policy initiatives with a particular focus on those implemented in FY2016.
The White Paper on Disaster Management in Japan 2016 provides an update on the status of disaster management measures in Japan, with a particular focus on those implemented in FY2015
In this article, the inverse care law is outlined, its application to medical treatment following disasters considered and an explanation of the inverse response law provided.
This paper discusses the opportunity to build government capacity to make use of various new financing instruments, such as reserve funds, contingent lines of credit, and insurance programs, for post-disaster recovery and reconstruction. By preparing
World Bank, the
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
This paper measures the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-time light intensity measured from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected the local recovery process. It focuses on the destructive Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (CES) 2010-2011 in New Zealand as a case study.
La finalidad de este material es específica y única: La Prevención de Desastres por tsunami, a través de conocimientos, del desarrollo de capacidades, valores, actitudes y hábitos, orientados a la realización de acciones adecuadas para la preparación ante
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
