21 Jul 2015
In recent years there has been increasing interest in area-based approaches among humanitarian actors responding to urban crises. Through analysis of case studies, as well as available policy literature, this paper proposes that, in an urban context,...
Tags: Awareness material, Urban Risk Reduction
21 Jul 2015
Twitter, a popular communications platform, is identified as contributing to improved mortality and morbidity outcomes resulting from the 2013 Hattiesburg, Mississippi EF-4 Tornado. This study describes the methodology by which Twitter was investigat...
Tags: Awareness material
25 Sep 2020
This scoping study, undertaken from October to December 2019, aims to inform priorities and actions of the German Red Cross (GRC) in relation to humanitarian assistance in the urban context. In doing so, the scoping study took stock of existing liter...
Tags: Awareness material, Report, Research, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management, Crisis Mapping, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Preparedness, Urban Risk Reduction