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People affected by natural disasters such as floods, cyclones, earthquakes, volcanoes, and  other calamities often face urgent protection needs that may not be immediately visible to  humanitarian...

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Publisher(s): WHO
Date: Jan 2020
Location: Global

The World Health Organization’s Chemical Releases Caused by Natural Hazard Events and Disasters document provides guidelines and information to planners in the health sector and to public health...

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This report focuses on mitigation of climate hazards as the main impetus and goal for implementing natural infrastructures. Narural infrastructures can also be employed to reap a variety of...

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This paper focuses on four questions. First, how does natural resource dependence impede economic and social progress? Second, how does lack of economic and social progress translate into violent...

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Publisher(s): UNDG – ECHA
Date: Jan 2023

This guidance note aims to help UNCTs and UN Missions understand the negative and positive roles that natural resources can play in peace consolidation. It provides practical guidance to assist in...

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This document can also be found on the official website of ALNAP at https://www.alnap.org/. This Groupe Urgence Réhabilitation Développement (Groupe URD)...

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Date: Jan 2020

The Dominica Waste Management Mission Report covers the aftermath and disaster waste management of the two devastating hurricanes that struck the Caribbean islands in September 2017. Two...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Global

The Guidelines for Rapid Environmental Impact in Disasters (REA) provide a means to define and prioritize potential environmental impacts in disaster situations. The Guidelines is composed of five...

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Date: Jan 2020
Location: Ecuador

This UN Environment/OCHA Joint Unit Mission Report describes the findings of an environmental expert who was deployed in Ecuador following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake.

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