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Urban disasters – lessons from Haiti
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Haiti

Agencies need to learn the 'new rules of the game' in urban pre and post-disaster response. This Case study explores issues like complexity, range of actors, space, the importance of commerce and...

Urban disasters – lessons from Haiti
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC)
Date: Nov 2018
Location: Haiti

This resource explore the importance of trade and commerce, services, intrastructure and sheer concentrations of people in a urban context.
Disaster Mitigation Strategies Through Land Use Planning and Zoning...
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

Integration of disaster mitigation planning into land use planningThe preliminary activities include: Preparatory work (data collection, research and analysis of available documentation)Creation...

Strategic Planning of Emergency Areas for Transitional Settlement
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

In emergency conditions, the realization of a settlement develops according to an unplanned process then affecting the transformation - often permanent - of places through the imposition of...

Empowering local livelihoods through cash-based programming
Content Type: Collection
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Date: Sep 2021
Location: All

This collection contains guidelines, evaluations, tools and toolboxes regarding the empowering of local livelihoods through cash-based progamming.