Urban Disaster Risk Reduction
Exploring disaster risk reduction in the built environment
... in urban disaster risk ...reduce disaster risks, such as land use planning, urban development planning, public works, construction safety and licensing, social services and responding ...
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Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Investment in Disaster Education Context
... Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia is an effort that must be done systematically, measurable to achieve national resilience to hydro-meteorological disaster that increases along with climate ...
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Urban Risk Reduction Through Effective Disaster Management Plan-A Case Study Of Shimla City, Himachal Pradesh, India
... from disaster management point of ...the disaster management plans at district and state ...reduce disaster risk by regulating the expansion of human settlements and infrastructure lacks ...
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Social resilience: the forgotten dimension of disaster risk reduction
... the Disaster Risk Reduction community needs to rethink the way in which redundancy and social resilience are ...in urban areas -- at least 50% of the world population by some estimates (Vatsa, ...
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Social vulnerability and disaster risk reduction needs: perspectives of women
... According to a detailed review of literature by Cutter et al. (2003) in their study of constructing an index of social vulnerability to environmental hazards, the characteristics that influence social vulnerability of ...
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Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Housing Development in Keko Machungwa
... address disaster risk have focused on as- pects including, perceptions and practices within international aid organizations regarding the existing and potential roles of urban planning as a tool for ...
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Local governance in disaster risk reduction in Cameroon
... and urban dwellers, the mean score for urban dwellers is lower (< 3) than for rural dwellers ...by urban dwellers that there is only limited progress can be explained by the fact that urban ...
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Disaster risk reduction in the Omusati and Oshana regions of Namibia
... Questions that dealt with the above five themes were aimed at the two key respondent groups, namely local government officials and community representatives. Respondents to the survey were asked to assess progress ...
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Role of local governments in disaster risk reduction
... in urban development ...prepare risk assessment and use these as basis for urban development plans and decisions, and make them easily available for the public, investing in and maintain risk ...
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Insurance-related instruments for disaster risk reduction (2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction)
... Two examples can illustrate the stark difference in global insurance coverage. At the time of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, insurance policies represented only about 0.28% of the country’s GNP. Payouts to private ...
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Geo-Information Technology for Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction
... of urban planning, city marketing, tourism, and facility ...of urban buildings helps to future decision- making process for reorganizing current urban building ...tsunami risk map, and ...
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Evaluation of Government approaches in Disaster Risk Reduction Management
... Historically, dealing with disasters focused on emergency response, but towards the end of the 20th century it was increasingly recognized that disasters are not only natural and man-made effecting human beings; and, ...
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Strategic Framework of Disaster Risk Reduction: A Theoretical Review
... of disaster risk reduction in the modern era draws its relevance largely from earlier contributions and previous practices in the field of civil defence and later disaster ...of urban ...
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COMMUNITY-BASED BEST PRACTICES FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
... of disaster related shocks ...improving disaster risk ...national disaster management institutions to tackle the ...of disaster occurrences. This guideline details best practices and ...
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DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
... on disaster and cholera ...for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is the only operational fund that is solely focused on DRR and carries out both global and country-level ...at risk of ...
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Indigenous knowledge for disaster risk reduction: An African perspective
... of disaster management has continued to grow (Mercer et ...improving disaster risk reduction policies has been discussed on various platforms, such as the management of disasters in the ...
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Taking stock of decentralized disaster risk reduction in Indonesia
... on disaster risk reduction until 2030, places strong importance on the role of local government in disaster risk ...current disaster risk reduction implementation, ...
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Gender mainstreaming: A lasting solution to disaster risk reduction
... if disaster reduction plans are to be ...for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Hyogo Framework for Action (2005– 2015) views gender as an integral part in disaster risk management, and ...
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Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Development: Challenges and Experience
... The Local Government Code of 1991 mandates LGUs to set 5% of their estimated revenue from regular sources aside as an annual lump sum appropriation for use in relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction and other works or ...
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From tsunami risk assessment to disaster risk reduction – the case of Oman
... the risk class threshold as shown in ...the risk level. In all other cases, for those HS under very low, low risk or not exposed, no countermeasures will be ...of risk reduction ...
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