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Fire safety: Guidelines for Human Settlement Planning and Design

31 Oct 2013
Although layout planning and design is only one of a number of measures which can be taken to contribute to fire safety in settlements, the purpose of this section is to bring about an awareness of fire safety in settlement planning and design, and t...
Guidance material, House Fire, Wildfire
Guidance material

Fire Safety for Wheelchair Users at Work and at Home

31 Oct 2013
By understanding their special evacuation needs, people with mobility impairments and first responders can improve their chances of evacuating their workplace or home safely. This brochure will emphasize the evacuation protocol for wheelchair user...
Guidance material, House Fire
Training material

Volcano Resources for Educators

31 Oct 2013
List of resource for educators by the US Geologic Survey. Volcano Resources for Educators http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/about/edu/index.php
Training material, Volcano
Guidance material

A Workbook on Planning for Urban Resilience in the Face of Disasters

31 Oct 2013
This Workbook offers a step-by-step guide for city officials in proactively planning for natural disasters and climate change impacts. It is based on learning from three cities in Vietnam – Ha Noi, Can Tho, and Dong Hoi – that developed Local...
Guidance material, Urban Resilience
Guidance material

Cities and Flooding

31 Oct 2013
A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century provides forward-looking operational assistance to policy makers and technical specialists in the rapidly expanding cities and towns of the developing world on how best to man...
Guidance material, Flood, Urban Resilience
Research

Role of social capital in reinforcing community resilience

31 Oct 2013
The study published by IFRC finds that while social capital has always played an implicit role in the community-based work of the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement – the volunteerism at its core, as well as the community-based committees and ac...
Research, Public Awareness and Public Education
Report

Building Sustainability in an Urbanizing World: A Partnership Report

31 Oct 2013
The report summarizes the sustainability issues faced by cities and points toward the road ahead. It reviews successes in policy as well as investment and discusses what is needed to reach out to the rapidly growing cities of the developing world and...
Report, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience

Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in Megacities: A Pilot Application in Metro Manila and Kathmandu. Executive Summaries

30 Oct 2013
The report presents the executive summaries of the final reports of projects carried out under the ‘Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in Megacities: A Pilot Application in Manila and Kathmandu’ initiative. The projects aimed at enh...
Urban Resilience
Report

Risiko 2.0 Neuer Umgang mit alten Naturgefahren

30 Oct 2013
The report summarizes some of the presentations given at the 11. Forum Katastrophenvorsorge, 18.-19. January, 2011, in Potsdam/Germany. Link to document http://www.dkkv.org/DE/links/ressource.asp?ID=312
Report, Flood, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Tornado, Volcano
Guidance material

Guidance note on recovery: pre-disaster recovery planning

30 Oct 2013
Pre-disaster recovery planning (PDRP) is the pro-active process of anticipating future recovery issues, developing a scenario-based recovery plan, and building the capacity to improve recovery outcomes – all before a disaster happens. Strong evi...
Guidance material, Post-Disaster Recovery

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