La evaluación de la vulnerabilidad y las capacidades (AVC) es un proceso básico empleado para identificar las ventajas y deficiencias de las Sociedades Nacionales en relación con la gestión de desastres. El proceso es otra contribución para hacer realidad el compromiso asumido por la Federación Internacional de reducir la vulnerabilidad de la población del mundo […]
Educational Animation Cartoon on Disaster risk reduction. Save the Children
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This book gathers a mix of experience and academic insight into how local communities are learning how to cope – and even thrive – through difficult times. Written in an accessible style its stories highlight experience from Cumbria to the Scottish Highlands, and from New Orleans to Tooting, London. Web links direct readers to topical references, and
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Radhika asks: How are risks informing your choices — of home or holiday destination? Are you informed about past disasters and their probability in the future? And what are you doing to reduce the risk of natural hazards turning your dream location into a disaster situation in the future? Radhika Murti is a Programme Coordinator
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As Vice President of Sustainable Development, Rachel leads the Bank’s global work in agriculture, environment, energy, infrastructure, urban, and social development, as well as global public goods issues in those areas. Before assuming this post in September 2011, she was the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Vice President for Business Advisory Services, where she focused on
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Gregory Kopp, a Canada Research Chair, shares stories of storm chasing and the results of his ongoing research on how to build disaster-resilient communities. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and
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A project done for nursing student friends from Benguet State University.
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In the hours, days and weeks ahead you may come across instances where people are worried, anxious, frightened, or just uncertain about their experiences and futures. Some will have experienced damage to their property which means that they cannot live where they normally live. Others may have experienced injury – whether to themselves, or their
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The maternity ward at the Red Cross Red Crescent field hospital in Carrefour is perhaps the busiest in town. Located on a sports field, this hospital of field tents averages around 100 live births each month.
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One in four people will suffer a mental, neurological, or substance use disorder at some point in their life; yet many cannot get access to basic medicines or basic mental health care. The mental health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) asserts that with proper care, psychosocial assistance and medication, tens of millions could be treated for
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