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Making Infrastructure Disaster-Resilient

30 Oct 2013
Making infrastructure resilient to natural disasters is a daunting challenge, not least because of the vast area of coverage that includes transport, electricity, water supply and sanitation, and buildings and other structures. Resilience refers to a...
Assessment or evaluation, Infrastructure and Services, Urban Resilience
Report

Critical Infrastructure Resilience Strategy

30 Oct 2013
This paper outlines the infrastructure resilience strategy of the Australian government. It examines a wide range of key issues including networks, supply chains, shared risk, cross-secotral approaches, and knock-on effects. Commonwealth of Australi...
Report, Infrastructure and Services, Urban Resilience
Report

Climate Resilient Infrastructure: Preparing for a Changing Climate

30 Oct 2013
This document has been produced as a response to calls from industry – infrastructure owners, investors and insurers – for a Government vision and policy on adapting infrastructure to climate change. It is designed to catalyse action to adapt i...
Report, Infrastructure and Services, Urban Resilience
Assessment or evaluation

Resilience in Action: Lessons from Public-Private Collaborations Around the World

30 Oct 2013
This report discusses nine outstanding cases of collaborations that build resilience, selected from an analysis of over 100 examples of public-private collaborations in developing countries. These case studies show how innovative collaborations can m...
Assessment or evaluation
Case Study, Report

Adaptive Disaster Risk Reduction. Enhancing Methods and Tools of Disaster Risk Reduction in the light of Climate Change

29 Oct 2013
This research report, published by the German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV) and authored by researchers from the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), examines how existing methods and tools of Di...
Case Study, Report, Climate Change Adaptation
Guidance material

Managing Spontaneous Volunteers in Times of Disaster: The Synergy of Structure and Good Intentions

29 Oct 2013
In 2002-03 UPS, the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network, FEMA and the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD) coalition convened a set of partner organizations to review the challenges and oppor...
Guidance material
Assessment or evaluation

International Food Security Assessment, 2013-2023

29 Oct 2013
By 2023, the number of food-insecure people in the 76 countries included in this report is projected to increase nearly 23 percent to 868 million, slightly faster than population growth. The distribution gap—the amount of additional food need...
Assessment or evaluation, Livelihoods and Food Security
Guidance material

Minimum Standards in Food Security and Nutrition

29 Oct 2013
Access to food and the maintenance of an adequate nutritional status are critical determinants of people’s survival in a disaster. Ultimately better food security and nutrition in disaster response is achieved through better preparedness. These...
Guidance material, Livelihoods and Food Security
Assessment or evaluation

Disaster preparedness for natural hazards: current status in Nepal

27 Oct 2013
This publication is one of a series produced under the project ‘Living with risk – sharing knowledge on disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region’, implemented by ICIMOD during a 15-month period in 2006 and 2007. Through this project, IC...
Assessment or evaluation, Earthquake, Flood
Guidance material

Drought tips from FEMA

27 Oct 2013
A set of tips on drought preparedness put together by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the United States. While many of the tips may be US specific, some can be readily adapted to other country contexts. FEMA. http://www.ready.gov/drought h...
Guidance material, Drought

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