01 Jul 2014
Natural catastrophe losses in 2013 were dominated by floods. Detailed analyses have shown that protective measures can drastically reduce losses. For example, the June 2013 floods in Germany and neighbouring countries proved to be considerably less d...
Tags: Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Risk Assessment, Risk Transfer and Disaster Management
02 Oct 2015
This report presents good practices in the promotion of economic empowerment of women in the post-disaster situations through entrepreneurship development in Japan and the Asia Pacific region. It discusses what contributed to the successful achieveme...
Tags: Report, Women and Gender in Disaster Management
31 Mar 2015
The purpose of this Working Paper on Crisis Mapping is to briefly analyze the current use, and changing role, of information communication technology (ICT) in conflict early warning, crisis mapping and humanitarian response. We demonstrate that ICTs ...
Tags: Other type of resource, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Crisis Mapping, Early Warning Systems, Mobile Technology