This manual for facilitators in Community Based Disaster Preparedness (CBDP) is the result of a decade of work of various Caribbean Red Cross Societies and draws on the experience of hundreds of Red Cross volunteers and beneficiaries. It also reflect...

This book gives step-by-step advice you can use to clean up, rebuild, and get help after a flood. If you do things right, your flooded home can be cleaned up, dried out, rebuilt, and reoccupied sooner than you think.

While there is an abundance of definitions of social capital, most of them share a focus on social relations that have productive benefits. Robert Putnam, who is one of the key authors associated with promoting the concept of social capital, defines ...