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Gestion del Riesgo en Contextos Urbanos: Avances en las Americas en Materia del abordaje del Riesgo en contextos urbanos

11 Oct 2013
La Gestión del riesgo y la experiencia urbana de las Sociedades Nacionales tiene sus inicios en el 2004 año en el cual las SN inician la implementacion de diagnosticos comunitarios en comunidades semi- urbanas- urbanas. El Desarrollo de Estudios ...
Report, Urban Resilience
Assessment or evaluation

After Hurricane Sandy: Lessons Learned for Bolstering Energy Resilience

11 Oct 2013
Series of reports on infrastructure resilience following Hurricane Sandy. Northeastern University, George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security, August, 2013. Online version of report http://www.northeastern.edu/kostas/wp-content/uploads...
Assessment or evaluation, Hurricane / Typhoon / Cyclone, Infrastructure and Services, Post-Disaster Recovery
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Humanitarian Exchange Magazine: Lessons learned from the Haiti Earthquake Response

11 Oct 2013
Special feature of the Humanitarian Exchange focusing on the response to the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Although much of the early media coverage emphasised the tardiness and inefficiency of the humanitarian response, subsequent reviews have ...
Report, Earthquake, Post-Disaster Recovery, Urban Resilience
Guidance material

Manual de Ocupação de Morros, Experiência em Recife

08 Oct 2013
Guidance material
Guidance material

The Alpha Multi-purpose tent

08 Oct 2013
The Alpha is designed for operations in warm climates, designed with a selfsupported aluminium-hinged structure facilitating a rapid erection and a most robust construction. Detachable gables opens for lengthwise interconnection and accordingly exten...
Guidance material
Report

Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction Study Lessons Learned from the Tsunami Operation CBDRR Programmes

08 Oct 2013
In November 2010, the IFRC commissioned Arup International Development (Arup ID) to undertake a study of its CBDRR programmes in order to identify and document lessons learned in implementing at scale CBDRR projects to strengthen community safety and...
Report
Report

Responding to urban disasters: Learning from previous relief and recovery operations (ALNAP, 2012)

08 Oct 2013
This 2012 ALNAP paper on urban lessons was written by David Sanderson, Paul Knox-Clarke and Leah Campbell and builds off a prior 2009 study written by Ian O’Donnell, Kristin Smart and Ben Ramalingam. It offers lessons pertaining to effecti...
Report, Community Engagement and Accountability, Risk Assessment, Urban Resilience
Report

Humanitarian Action in Drought Related Emergencies

08 Oct 2013
The paper offers insight and recommendations around preparing for and coping with drought as a recurrent and natural hazard in many parts of the world. It largely focuses on the Africa context, and suggests ways to improve effectiveness of humanitar...
Report, Climate Change Adaptation, Drought, Livelihoods and Food Security, Risk Assessment
Report

Hyogo Framework for Action Midterm Review

08 Oct 2013
The Hyogo Framework for Action Midterm review considers progress toward the key components of the HFA framework of 2005, where critical gaps were identified to serve as the basis of a framework designed to promote “reduction of disaster losses ...
Report, Urban Resilience
Report

Lernen aus der Katastrophe 2002 im Elbegebiet: Hochwasservorsorge in Deutschland (Learning from the 2002 Elbe Flood Disaster: Flood Risk Management in Germany)

08 Oct 2013
Diese interdisziplinäre Lessons-Learned-Studie des Deutschen Komitees für Katastrophenvorsorge (DKKV) aus dem Jahr 2003 analysiert umfassend das Augusthochwasser 2002 im Elbeeinzugsgebiet – eines der schwersten Hochwasserereignisse in der jünger...
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