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The report explores New Orleans' complex recovery after Hurricane Katrina, highlighting the tension between rapid reconstruction and long-term betterment, and the potential for broader reforms to influence the city's future trajectory.

The Master Plan for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation establishes structural and non-structural intervention strategies to reduce vulnerability to disasters and create conditions for readiness and response in cases of emergency.

Cash for Recovery looks at the feasibility of cash-based responses in post-disaster situations. It is an in-depth study of a scheme in Sri Lanka designed to meet the needs of extremely poor and labour-scarce households.

The constant possibility of natural disasters posed a financial and social problem for the Turkish government. This issue led to the establishment of the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) in 1999.

This report is a compilation of case studies and grapples with the crucial question of merging disaster management education into the broader agenda of education for sustainable development.

This report assesses damages on various aspects such as socio-economic impacts, agriculture, caused by 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. This report also includes the response, recovery and reconstruction plans.

This report is a comprehensive verification of the efforts made for reconstruction from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake over the last decade in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and provides recommendations for similar future shocks.

This report provides a preliminary assessment of damage incurred, with a special focus on reconstruction needs. It provides donors with an initial assessment of possible intervention needs within six months to a year following the floods.