18 Sep 2014
Experience has shown that effective domestic laws can be indispensable tools for reducing vulnerability to disasters and ensuring an effective response. Weak laws, on the other hand, can hinder progress in making populations safer and stall their...
Tags: Other type of resource, Disaster Law
28 Apr 2015
This paper aims to provide a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes. It concentrates on issues of particular relevance in earthquakes. The paper assumes that readers are already familiar with the more g...
Tags: Other type of resource, Earthquake, Post-Disaster Recovery
23 Dec 2014
In the context of urbanisation, disaster risk increases as a result of badly planned and managed urban development, degraded ecosystems and poverty. The Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) processes developed in several Latin American cities show the be...
Tags: Other type of resource, Urban Preparedness