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This document provides an overview of the current level of integration of environmental sustainability and disaster resilience in the building code of the Philippines. The National Building Code...
Older people have often been overlooked in disasters and conflicts, and their concerns have rarely been addressed by emergency programmes or planners. This analysis seeks to: (1) highlight factors...
Disasters have the potential to cause short- and long-term effects on the psychological functioning, emotional adjustment, health, and developmental trajectory of children. This clinical report...
The need to develop cash guidelines for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement was identified at a seminar hosted by the International Federation's secretariat in May 2006. The...
This document can also be found on the official website of the CDC at: https://www.cdc.gov/. This document provides interim...
This article has examined whether and how recent changes in humanitarian approaches, from responsive to increasingly preventive modes and ways of working, can contribute to climate change...
This guideline attempts at presenting the complex process of recovery in a simple and practical manner. We have learned lessons from the past disasters where Governments’, development agencies’...
Disasters provide an opportunity to build back better, safer, and more accessible for all. They also offer the possibility to incorporate universal design principles into new construction, which...
Technical Aspects of Snow Avalanche Risk Management provides a framework for avalanche risk assessment and mitigation, as well as resources and guidelines for avalanche practitioners in Canada....
This brief document describes frostbite and hypothermia, their symptoms, as well as the first aid in case a person is found suffering from them. Frostbite/hypothermia is a time-sensitive condition...