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For decades, aid actors have widely acknowledged the importance of facilitating effective transitions from relief to development and grappled with the operational and policy challenges of...
This report discusses why so many people still leave in camps on Haiti, even two years after the disaster.
This article looks at the interaction between the
humanitarian community and the Pakistan military in responding to the 2010
floods in order to identify key successes and challenges....
The 2010 Pakistan floods called for the largest ever humanitarian appeal from the United Nations, with over 20 million people affected and nearly 1.8 million houses damaged or destroyed. The...
This paper highlights the immediate concerns for the humanitarian shelter and settlement sector. This paper discusses the need for a comprehensive shelter strategy, either at a national or local...
This paper highlights the immediate concerns for the humanitarian shelter and settlement sector. This paper discusses the need for a comprehensive shelter strategy, either at a national or local...
Debris management should not be viewed as a set of mechanical cleaning actions, but rather as an open door to encourage the rebuilding of the social fabric, promote job creation and initiate the...
The work attempts mainly to illustrate both general means of production and actual physical techniques, as well as their economic implications. It aims more to be an aid to decision-making than to...
In this short paper Pelling builds on some assessment of the ways in which population interacts with urban disaster risk through demographic trends and urban settlement hierarchies.