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Responding to urban disasters: Learning from previous relief and...
Content Type: Resource
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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...

Managing post-disaster debris: the Japan experience
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Japan

In the aftermath of the tragic events in Japan of 11 March 2011, I ampleased UNEP has been able to contribute to the post-disaster effort. One year after the disaster, the environmental, economic...

Debris management: Recovery planning
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): World BankGlobal Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Japan

Some 20 million tonnes of waste resulted from the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE). The amount of debris in Iwate Prefecture was 11 times greater than in a normal year, and in Miyagi 19 times...