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Responding to urban disasters: Learning from previous relief and...
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Publisher(s): Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP)ProVention Consortium
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haiti, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Japan, Turkey, United States of America

Disaster response in an urban environment presents a wide variety of challenges. Humanitarian organisations often have more experience of disaster response in rural settings, and local authorities...

North Korea: the politics of food aid
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Democratic People's Republic of Korea

The uniquely difficult political climate for international
assistance to North Korea has sometimes distracted from
the fact that people in the country are suffering for lack of
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Housing Finance Mechanisms in the Republic of Korea
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Republic of Korea

This publication is an evaluation housing finance mechanisms in Republic of Korea. It details Republic of Korea's experience with this type of financing and may provide other countries with...

Housing and Urban Upgrading in Yantai, China
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: China

This report examines the housing problems in China about two decades ago. It describes the miracle China has made in the field of housing and urban development in the face of such a rapid...

Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015
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Publisher(s): United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Japan

This document is anExtract from the final report of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (A/CONF. 206/6), held from 18 to 22 January 2005in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. The Conference adopted the...

Beijing Declaration on the 2005 World Conference on Disaster Reduction
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Publisher(s): United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: China

An International Conference on Disaster Reduction was held in Beijing, PeopleÂ’s Republic of China, from 25 to 27 May 2004. The Conference was co-organized by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the...

Building climate and disaster resilience into city planning and...
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Africa, Bahrain, Cyprus, Eastern Asia, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, State of Palestine, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

This paper presents an integrated analytic framework for tackling climate change through mainstreaming disaster risk management into overall development planning in urban areas. It discusses the...

Transitional Shelter - Knowledge Notes
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Japan

Lessons learned from the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake of 1995 and other disasters led the Japanese government to promote the concept of networked relocation following the GEJE, when an...

Earthquake Reconstruction
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Publisher(s): Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
Date: Nov 2018
Location: Haiti, Chile, Japan

These notes are the body of knowledge and best practices easily available for affected governments in order to assist them in making crucial decisions for post-earthquake recovery and...

UN Environment/OCHA Joint Unit Mission Report – 2007 Mongolia Water...
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Publisher(s): UN Environment/OCHA
Date: Jan 2020
Location: Mongolia

This mission report describes the findings of two experts deployed by the UN Environment/OCHA Joint Unit (JEU) in Mongolia following a sodium cyanide chemical spill. A spill of sodium cyanide from...

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