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Sixth Session of the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management: Chair's summary

This summary provides the Chair’s assessment of the main points of the key issues discussed during the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management, held in Suva, Fiji on 2–4 June 2014. It presents (i) the findings of a ten-year review of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) in the region; (ii) a summary of a High-level dialogue between prominent repr…
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Comparing the direct human impact of natural disasters for two cases: The Christchurch earthquake and Bangkok flood in 2011

This paper presents a novel way to aggregate separate measures of disaster impact and apply it to two recent catastrophic events: the Christchurch (New Zealand) earthquakes and the Greater Bangkok (Thailand) floods of 2011. It focuses exclusively on the direct impact of disasters. Similar to the World Health Organization's calculation of Disability Adj…

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