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Urban risk assessments : understanding disaster and climate risk in cities

30 Oct 2013
The rapid and often unplanned expansion of cities is exposing more people and economic assets to the risk of disasters and the effects of climate change. For city governments, increased climate variability imposes additional challenges to effective u...
Guidance material, Risk Assessment, Urban Resilience
Guidance material

Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing after Disasters

30 Oct 2013
Post-disaster reconstruction begins with a series of decisions that must be made almost immediately. Despite the urgency with which these decisions are made, they have long-term impacts, changing the lives of those affected by the disaster for years ...
Guidance material, Post-Disaster Recovery
Assessment or evaluation

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

Community Action in Disaster Response Training of Trainer program in South/Southeast Asia

29 Oct 2013
For those interested in community response teams, check out the Community Action in Disaster Response program implemented in 10 countries in Asia, where the Asia Disaster Preparedness Center is working with Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in a ...
Report

Mobilisierung des Privatsektors zur katastrophenpräventiven Anpassung an den Klimawandel

29 Oct 2013
This report examines the approaches small and mediums sized entreprises take to adapt to climate change impact, and analyses more in depth the enabling factors for climate change adaptation. Link to document http://www.dkkv.org/DE/publications/ress...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation

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

29 Oct 2013
The report presents recommendations to strengthen the linkages between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction through improving DRR tools and approaches for an enhanced adaptation to climate change impacts. Link to document http://ww...
Climate Change Adaptation
Guidance material

Red Cross Red Crescent Reference Center on Volunteering

29 Oct 2013
The main purpose of the Reference Centre is to act as a resource on volunteering to Red Cross Red Crescent (RC/RC) national societies in Europe through research and sharing of information, the development of good practice models and tools, signpostin...
Guidance material

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