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Compendium: transitional learning spaces (TLS) - Design and...
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Publisher(s): United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: World, Madagascar, Rwanda, Somalia, Haiti, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar

School safety and education are both key to reducing the impact of disasters. The role of education in reducing disaster risks is enshrined in all global commitments and frameworks. Foremost among...

Responding to urban disasters: Learning from previous relief and...
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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...

Seismic retrofitting quick reference: School facilities that...
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Publisher(s): Government of Japan
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Japan

This illustrated reference for school facilities planners and designers shows examples of seismic retrofitting of junior and senior high school buildings in two prefectures and their performance...

Development of an After Earthquake Disaster Shelter Evaluation Model
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: China

Based on actual surveys after earthquakes in Taiwan, study maps behavior of populations during and after earthquakes. Important for shelter is how population distributed themselves amongst...

Retrofit and reconstruction for resilience
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Publisher(s): Monash University
Date: Feb 2014
Location: China

Presentation made at the Global Dialogue on Wenchuan Earthquake and Response, Chengdu, November 12, 2008. Discusses Principal Ye Zhiping and the retrofit of Sangzao Middle School in Anxian county...

North Korea: the politics of food aid
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Democratic People's Republic of Korea

The uniquely difficult political climate for international
assistance to North Korea has sometimes distracted from
the fact that people in the country are suffering for lack of
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Compendium: Transitional Learning Spaces (TLS). Design and...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Bangladesh, China, Haiti, Madagascar, Myanmar, Pakistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Sri Lanka, World

School safety and education are both key to reducing the impact of disasters. The role of education in reducing disaster risks is enshrined in all global commitments and frameworks. Foremost among...

Housing Finance Mechanisms in the Republic of Korea
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Republic of Korea

This publication is an evaluation housing finance mechanisms in Republic of Korea. It details Republic of Korea's experience with this type of financing and may provide other countries with...

Housing and Urban Upgrading in Yantai, China
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: China

This report examines the housing problems in China about two decades ago. It describes the miracle China has made in the field of housing and urban development in the face of such a rapid...

Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015
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Publisher(s): United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Japan

This document is anExtract from the final report of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (A/CONF. 206/6), held from 18 to 22 January 2005in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. The Conference adopted the...

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