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Disaster mitigation / Emergency preparedness
Last updated on
23 September 2008
This section provides resources outlining preparedness plans and initiatives to develop and maintain the ability to respond to and recover from natural disasters. This includes short term risk models such as early warning systems, and longer term solutions of community education on risk reduction, training and information management.
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Risk assessment & management
- Climate change and low-lying Pacific Islands: a plain person's guide to global warming and sea-level rise
- Early warning systems: reframing the discussion
- The role of ICT in preventing, responding to and recovering from conflict
- ePrimer: ICT for disaster management
- Contingency planning and humanitarian action: a review of practice
- Guidelines for emergency management in culturally & linguistically diverse communities
- DRM: contributions by German development cooperation
- The macro financing of natural hazards in developing countries
- Emergency preparedness capacity builders
- Natural disaster mitigation program
- Guide to disaster reduction on coasts of the Indian Ocean
- A citizen guide for preparedness for tsunamis
- The Asian tsunami: the implications for preparedness and contingency planning
- Getting tsunami recovery and early warning right
Global & regional preparedness plans
- Building disaster resilient communities: good practices and lessons learned
- Guidelines for national platforms for disaster risk reduction
- Words into action: a guide for implementing the Hyogo Framework
- International strategy for disaster reduction: Asia & Pacific
- Keeping our mob safe: national emergency management strategy for remote Indigenous communities
- UN conference on disaster reduction concludes and adopts plan of action for next 10 years
- Not if, but when: Adapting to natural hazards in the pacific islands region