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In Control: A Practical Guide for Civilian Experts Working in Crisis...
Content Type: Resource
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Date: Jan 2019
Location: Global

The handbook has been designed to accompany civilian experts on their way through crisis management missions and provides a general overview of the institutional landscape of crisis management as...

Scaling Up Early Action: Lessons, Challenges and Future Potential in...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Date: May 2019
Location: Bangladesh

Humanitarian and disaster risk management practitioners are becoming increasingly interested in the potential for Forecast-based early action’ (FbA) to reduce the impact of shocks on vulnerable...

When Preparedness Works: Case of Cyclone Phailin
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Publisher(s): All India Disaster Mitigation Institute
Date: May 2019
Location: India

The Odisha government is preparing for Cyclone Phailin — which is expected to hit the east coast on Saturday evening (October 12, 2013) — on a war footing, Mihir Bhatt from the All India Disaster...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - AREA-BASED APPROACHES IN URBAN SETTINGS:...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Urban Settlements Working Group (USWG)
Date: May 2019
Location: Turkey, Philippines, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Colombia, Lebanon, Kenya, Uganda, Central African Republic, Somalia, Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Tanzania

This Compendium is a pioneering collection of case studies describing area-based approaches to urban challenges (2010-2019). The case studies were sourced from multiple agencies, collected by the...

The Landslide Handbook— A Guide to Understanding Landslides
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Date: Jun 2020
Location: USA

This document can also be found on the official website of the U.S. Geologic Hazards Science Center at https://www.usgs.gov/centers/geohazards...

Management of Slope Stability in Communities (MoSSaiC) in Saint Lucia
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Publisher(s): The World Bank Group
Date: Jun 2020
Location: Saint Lucia, Eastern Caribbean

This document can also be found on the official website of The World Bank Group at https://www.worldbank.org/
The paper reports on Saint Lucia’s...

Safer Cities 12 Demonstration Housing Construction for Landslide and...
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Publisher(s): Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
Date: Jun 2020
Location: Sri Lanka

This document can also be found on the official website Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) of at https://www.adpc.net/
The floods and landslides in...

Peru – 2012 – Flooding and Land Slides
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Shelter Projects
Date: Jun 2020
Location: Peru

This document can also be found on the official website of Shelter Projects at http://shelterprojects.org/
This document resports the project of...

A.32 USA (Chicago) – 1871 – Fire
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Shelter Projects
Date: Jun 2020
Location: USA

This document can also be found on the official website of Shelter Projects at https://shelterprojects.org/
This is one of an ongoing series of “...

Safer Cities 9: Reducing Fire Threats to Homes: Piloting Community-...
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Publisher(s): Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
Date: Jun 2020
Location: Lao People's Democratic Republic

This document can also be found on the official website of Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) at https://www.adpc.net/
This study presents the...

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