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This report provides the first systematic overview of protection of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Afghanistan. It combines the voices of IDPs with analysis of the decision-making...
Watershed protection is one of the many goods and services provided by the world’s fast disappearing tropical forests. Among the variety of watershed protection benefits, flood damage alleviation...
Community, environment and disaster risk management, volume 1. This book portrays lessons from innovative urban risk management approaches in Asian cities, drawn from seven Asian countries. The...
Over the years, AID has developed a number of approaches designed to both provide emergency shelter and speed housing reconstruction. Many of these can be funded using emergency grants from AID's...
This book presents the concepts, procedures, and code provisions that are currently being used to make structures as earthquake resistant as is presently feasible. The book begins by describing...
This book addresses sustainable planning and construction after natural events such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, etc. and asserts it is yet possible, in theory and in practice, to construct...
This book seeks to demonstrate how disaster risk management and adaptation could be better integrated into urban development planning (i. e. social housing, slum upgrading and urban governance...