This report presents the proceedings of a workshop held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 29 to 30 June 2006. This follow-up workshop, to the initial meeting in March/April 2005, where various approaches to the rehabilitation of affected agricultural lands were discussed and proposed and a Regional Strategic Framework was formulated, had as its focus: a review of progress to date with the objective of identifying gaps that may have arisen; an assessment of long-term strategic plans for each of the countries, moving from an initial emergency response phase to structured long-term plans for the rehabilitation of the agricultural sector; and development of coordination strategies and linkages for current and future interventions.
This symposium report focuses on mitigation strategies for tsunami disasters, tsunami warning systems and historical and pre-historical tsunamis associated with earthquakes in the Indian Ocean. The results of the project, upon which this symposium was
This book, consisting of two parts, the theory of Total Disaster Risk Management (TDRM) and good practices for disaster risk management, was compiled for the purpose of promoting TDRM as a comprehensive approach to disaster risk reduction worldwide.
This is a summary report of the Experts Meeting which was organized on January 16 to verify the progress made in recovery efforts implemented in tsunami- and earthquake-hit regions and to come up with concrete measures to achieve better recovery. The Experts Meeting comprised three thematic group discussions, on “Housing” “Livelihood” and “Organizational and Institutional Arrangements,” for a recovery with a view to build back better as well as a plenary session.
This report, from the Office of the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, documents the status of the recovery effort at two years after the occurrence of the earthquake off the coast of Sumatra on December 26, 2004 and the tsunami it triggered.
This update marks six months since a massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra triggered the worst natural catastrophe in living memory. Within this relatively short period of time, a great deal has changed: the dead have been buried, the homeless have
