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This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters. This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
This document presents a simple approach to elaborate a scenario regarding the potential impacts of a tsunami in a city exposed to such a hazard. The approach has been tailored to span eleven typical development sectors which are present in every city such as health, education, housing, life-lines, transportation, telecommunications, industry, governmen…
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This study consists of a desk analysis of ten initially selected countries using available information provided by key informants from institutions working in those selected countries in disaster reduction project in the education sector. The four main dimensions identified are as follows: (i) hazards and risks knowledge, (ii) structural and non structu…
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This Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Educational Kit (NDRR) in Arabic has been developed with the view to enhancing the coping capabilities of disaster prone communities in the Arab States region as well as the dissemination of the technical knowledge in natural disaster reduction to build the capacities of educational institutions, students, and teache…
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@local.glob, issue no. 3 – year 2006: The document assists in facilitating and supporting efforts by governments, local authorities, international organizations, and multilateral financial and trade institutions to invest in reducing disaster risk and to promote sustainable development policies that will create better opportunities for all. This speci…
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This study focuses on the 2006 landslide tragedy in the Philippines, where an entire community, including its people, its productive assets, and its socio-cultural resources, was totally buried. It reports on the various levels of recovery that have been achieved among the provision of community services and facilities such as health, education, recreat…
This paper highlights some aspects of a meeting with subregional, regional and international organizations specializing in disaster risk reduction held in Panama City, on 13 and 14 December 2010 on: (i) the institutional framework for disaster risk reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean, including the preparation of national progress reports on th…
This publication provides 35 good practices and lessons learned as concrete examples of how to make children safer in their classrooms and educate them about disasters.
ISDR Thematic Platform for Knowledge and Education 2012: This desk review revisits existing reports about all aspects of school safety, gathered from 81 countries, and refers to the key advocacy and guidance documents for school safety of the past 7 years to develop an analysis that reflects the best practices in achieving the goals of comprehensive sc…
This magazine provides considerable updated information on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the Central Asia region. It also contributes to strengthening partnerships and to mobilising resources for regional DRR operations. It aims to contribute to making the region more efficient and better prepared to build a safer and more resilient environment. The…
In December 2015, a resolution jointly proposed by 142 countries including Japan on the creation of a World Tsunami Awareness Day, was adopted by consensus at the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The objectives of the World Tsunami Awareness Day are to raise public awareness of the risk caused by tsunamis and to enhance tsunami prepa…
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A declaration by the Mayors and Local Government representatives together with National Government Officials emphasizing the importance of reducing disaster risk in Arab cities, in which the participants of the First Arab conference for disaster risk reduction recognize the vulnerability Arab cities and towns to disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes,…
This country brief summarizes Lebanon’s efforts in planning for greater disaster resilience. In past years, the country has learned a great deal from its history of disaster response and recovery experiences. It is now planning to implement a more systematic disaster risk reduction (DRR) agenda by institutionalizing measures for disaster prevention, mit…
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Training module on climate change considerations in the coastal zone and disaster risk reduction, session 3, Mangroves for the Future regional training course, Semarang, Indonesia, 27-31 October, 2008: This presentation emphasizes practical demonstration and use of the measures, tools and approaches for implementing projects on disaster risk reduction…
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Experiences and lessons learnt from the project "Building resilience to tsunamis in the Indian Ocean": This document reports on an initiative which objective is to build the resilience of communities and nations to disasters by strengthening national and local institutions, mechanisms and capacities for disaster risk reduction. It addresses identified…

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