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Resources available on this website:

Climate Change

• ProVention Harmonization portal - Exploring synergies between Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
• Red Cross / Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness
• Climate change and disasters, Tearfund
• Linking Climate Adaptation Network
• ELDIS Community Based Adaptation Exchange (overview of community based adaptation case studies, tools, methodologies, websites and key actors)
• Children in a changing climate initiative

Critical infrastructure

• Interagency Website on Safe Hospitals
• WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2008-2009 World Disaster Reduction Campaign: Hospitals Safe from Disasters
• PAHO training manual resources:
  • Protecting New Health Facilities from Natural Disasters: Guidelines for the Promotion of Disaster Mitigation in the Design of New Health Facilities, PAHO
  • Guidelines for Vulnerability Reduction in the Design of New Health Facilities, PAHO
  • Principles of Disaster Mitigation in Health Facilities, PAHO
  • Hospital Disaster Planning, PAHO [in Spanish]
  • Disaster Mitigation in Drinking Water and Sewerage Systems, PAHO
  • Safe Hospitals: A Collective Responsibility. A Global Measure of Disaster Reduction, PAHO
• Keeping Schools Safe in Earthquakes, OECD

Early Warning

• UN/ISDR Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning Platform

Gender

• Gender and Disaster Network
• Environmental management and the mitigation of natural disasters: a gender perspective’

Livelihoods

• Social vulnerability, Sustainable Livelihoods and Disasters, Cannon, Twigg and Rowell
• Managing Risk, Improving Livelihoods: Program Guidelines for Conditions of Chronic Vulnerability, CARE/TANGO
• Household Livelihood Security Assessments: a toolkit for practitioners, CARE
• Operationalizing household livelihood security, Frankenberger, Drinkwater and Maxwell

Mitigation

• Disaster Mitigation, UN Disaster Management, 2nd edition, 1994, Training Program (PDF, 0.5MB)
• Mitigation Practitioner's Handbook, USAID (PDF, 2.8MB)

Non Governmental Organisations

• NGO initiatives in risk reduction - An annotated bibliography of case studies, John Twigg, Benfield Hazard Research Centre, March 2002 (PDF, 0.3MB)

Media

• Natural Disasters or Political Failures - Do natural hazards have to be natural disasters? There is now a growing realisation worldwide, that the vulnerability of many people in the developing world could be reduced if more effort and resources were spent on risk-reduction strategies rather than purely responding to the aftermath of disasters. By Research TV, broadcasted on Tuesday 11 July 2006, 12:15-12:30 GMT. Watch the video or read the transcript.
• Workshop on Media & Disaster Risk Reduction for East & Southern African Journalists held in Nairobi, Kenya, 14-17 December 2004: see article in ISDR's newsletter "African journalists pledge to help promote culture of prevention"

Urban Risk Management

• Portugese - Morros: Manual de Ocupação - Região Metropolitana do Recife, 2003
  • Sumàrio (PDF, 0.3MB)
  • Características Ambientais (PDF, 2.7MB)
  • Padrão Urbanístico de Ocupação dos Morros (PDF, 1.5MB)
  • Risco Geológico (PDF, 2.1MB)
  • Prossesos que Causam Acidentes (PDF, 0.9MB)
  • Diretrizes para Implantação Urbano nos Morros (PDF, 2.7MB)
  • Vias de Acesso (PDF, 1.2MB)
  • Lotes de Interesse Social (PDF, 0.8MB)
  • Edificações (PDF, 0.8MB)
  • Espaços Livres de Uso Público (PDF, 3.7MB)
  • Obras sem Estrutura de Contenção (PDF, 1.4MB)
  • Obras con Estrutura de Contenção (PDF, 0.2MB)
  • Obras de Proteção para Massas Movimentadas (PDF, 1.7MB)
  • Drenagem (PDF, 0.7MB)
  • Esgotamento Sanitàrio (PDF, 0.9MB)
  • Lixo (PDF, 2.5MB)
  • Planejamento e Gestão (PDF, 1.1MB)
  • Gerenciamento de Risco (PDF, 4.6MB)
  • Cartilha (PDF, 0.5MB)
  • Referéncias (PDF, 0.3MB)
• Healthy cities and urban governance, WHO
• Article in Places Magazine: Climate-Related Disasters: Humanitarian Challenges and Reconstruction Opportunities