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This guidebook is a planning tool to design, manage and assess recovery following a disaster. It describes institutional options, successful characteristics and management lessons based on real-world experience with disaster recovery operations.

This second edition of Ready for the Dry Years reveals that the severity of two drought events during 2015-2016 and 2018-2020 exceeds anything recorded in the past two decades, since the major El Niño of 1997-1998.

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘Perspectives on the Pandemic: COVID-19 in South Asia’ and brings forth different perspectives on managing the COVID-19 outbreak in South Asia. South Asia is unlike other regions in the world, it is

Social protection policy has been become one of the Indonesian government’s main political discourses and policy instruments. However, there is a lack of concern regarding social protection for citizens affected by natural disasters that cause adverse

This research is aimed at monitoring the recovery of coastal land use during 10 years of the recovery process and at investigating the influence of the recovery process on the community livelihood.

This book provides an overview of the progress made in disaster risk management (DRM) in the ten years to 2017, highlighting the achievements of particular countries such as Indonesia, Turkey, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, Nepal and Ethiopia. Each chapter

This newsletter features several updates and activities from the Resilience Development Initiative (RDI), an Indonesian think tank initiative that focuses on disaster, environmental change and sustainable development. Content in this issue includes:

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This publication compiles a series of impact stories and best practices on livelihoods recovery, skills development and business development in the midst of continuous eruption of Mt. Sinabung in Karo District, North Sumatra, Indonesia, since 2010. 

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