Disaster and development
Research Approach towards Formulating Research and Innovation Capacity Development Framework for Disaster Resilience in Higher Education Institutions
... of disaster events with extensive loss of life and ...in disaster resilience (DR) research capacity-building in Asia; the importance of ensuring stronger local ownership of initiatives; and, the importance ...
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Economic development perspectives of post disaster infrastructure reconstruction : post tsunami reconstruction in Sri Lanka
... a disaster takes place, the most challengeable issue is to restore the society back to its original status or moreover restore it to a better ...the disaster but also the infrastructure that never existed ...
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Earth Observation Actionable Information Supporting Disaster Risk Reduction Efforts in a Sustainable Development Framework
... for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) considers that “disaster risk reduction includes disciplines like disaster management, disaster mitigation and disaster preparedness, but is also ...
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Post disaster reconstruction as an opportunity for development : women's perspective
... resource development, coordinated effort towards independence and ...In disaster circumstances, empowerment would enable women to increase their human and economic developmental ...
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Design And Development Of Integrated Disaster Management System
... environment disaster risk mainly for ...of disaster monitoring and warning by means of relevant parameters used for forecasts to generate accurate and timely ...the development of technology based on ...
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Disaster Management and Sustainable Development
... Sustainable development: development which meet the needs of present without compromising ability of future generation to meet their own ...Sustainable development ties together concern for the ...
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Strengthening capacity building for disaster management in taraba state: A panacea for sustainable development
... socio-economic development, poverty reduction initiatives and millennium development goals (MDGs) in the Taraba state and the country as a ...and development practices, such as encroachment into ...
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The Development of a Certification Program for Natural Disaster Resilient Homes.
... The economic recovery from the effects of a natural disaster is a long and time-consuming process that affects both the impacted community and the national economy. For example, after Hurricane Hugo, insurance ...
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Playing politics in the development and provision of disaster information for Hispanics
... Multiethnicity, 2004). Increasingly, states and counties must consider the unique needs of Hispanics during routine and nonroutine events. It is especially important to consider these unique needs during crises given ...
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Disaster Management – Indian Legal Scenario
... and disaster resilient India by developing a holistic, proactive, integrated, Multi-disaster oriented and technology driven ...towards disaster management with emphasis on building strategic ...
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Brief communication: Strengthening coherence between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
... Sustainable Development (UN, 2015a) and complemen- tary multilateral frameworks, including the Sendai Frame- work for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (UN, 2015b) (SFDRR) and the Paris Agreement on Climate ...
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Conceptualizing community resilience to natural hazards - the emBRACE framework
... The term “resilience” is both ubiquitous and indeterminate. Similarly, “community” is equally pervasive and prone to common sense understandings which appear to obviate crit- ical discursive engagement. Together, the two ...
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Flood of Memories:Narratives of Flood and Loss in Tamil South India
... the development and of disaster management policies in the Union Territory of Pondicherry from their origins in colonial-era policies to the significant re-orientation that followed the 2004 Asian ...to ...
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Governance of disaster risk reduction in Cameroon: The need to empower local government
... systematic development and application of policies, strategies and practices to prevent or prepare for hazards, or to mitigate their adverse effects (UNISDR ...International Development (DFID) (2005) has ...
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PRE-DISASTER RISK FINANCING INSTRUMENTS AS A STRATEGIC FINANCING OPTION FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION IN THE KENYAN NATIONAL DISASTER PLATFORM
... proactive disaster risk financing option; examining financing sources and priority areas in the utilization of funds for disaster risk ...reducing disaster risk and increasing resilience to natural ...
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DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS, HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AND QUEST FOR RE-CONSTRUCTION OF NORTH-EASTERN NIGERIA
... Furthermore, the Oxfam model has the advantage of promoting the trend towards grass root empowerment, thereby overcoming the dangers of external run programme under disaster relief and missionary models. However, ...
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A Detailed Over-View of Satellites Launched By National Research and Development Agency from 2001-2016
... On the 27th of September,2003 Nigeria launched the Nigeria-Sat-1 micro-satellite into low orbit. Thus becoming the first African nation to own and operate a space borne multispectral remote sensing satellite system. ...
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Economically Challenged Women in Disaster Risk Management: Toward a Resilient Filipino Community
... Family Development Sessions and Disaster Preparedness and Risk Re- duction training and ...on disaster preparedness to participate in the survey and interview and to represent the oth- er ...
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Balancing the urban-rural development: assessment on local services and facilities for community of Royal Belum State Park
... rural development namely disaster management, training and education, entrepreneurship and innovation, and networking and social capital development across a deliberately wide range of relevant ...
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AN EVALUATION OF DISASTER INFORMATION DISSEMINATING SYSTEM’S CONTRIBUTION TO EDUCATION IN SOUTH EAST, NIGERIA
... The threat of desertification due to uncontrolled use of wood for fuel, pest infestations and locusts in the Yobe-Borno axis; an outbreak of the dreaded avian influenza (bird flu) in some parts of the country; droughts ...
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