21 Jul 2015
This edition of Asian Disaster Management News focuses on disaster recovery: the governance, economics, and social impacts. It includes features on i) recovery planning, ii) the needs of survivors in post-disaster needs assessments, iii) defining the...
Tags: Awareness material, Other type of resource, Post-Disaster Recovery, Risk Assessment
19 Mar 2015
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: 2015-2030 was adopted on March 18 at the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. The United Nations General Assembly Resolution adopted in 2013 (68/211) on International Strategy for Di...
Tags: Other type of resource, Disaster Law, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
13 Sep 2014
Article about a model developed in Japan to predict people’s movement patterns after disaster events. The model is based on a study of travel patterns after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 based on GPS data from mobile phones users. The...
Tags: Research, Earthquake, Mobile Technology