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People, communities and rehabilitation
A natural disaster can have a serious impact on an individual and have widespread implications for communities, their health, economic livelihoods and long term well being.This section provides resources outlining disaster reconstruction strategies, including housing and infrastructure, health and social recovery strategies to build community capacity and sustainability. The issues of environmental regeneration are also addressed, inherently linked to the health and prosperity of communities.
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Housing and infrastructure
- Information on the specification and use of plastic sheeting in humanitarian relief
- Handbook on good building design & construction: Aceh & Nias
- Housing reconstruction in post-earthquake Gujarat:a comparative analysis
- Existing guidelines supporting the shelter sector
- Humanitarian Timber
- shelterproject.org
- Tsunami reconstruction workshop papers
- Asbestos - hazards and safe practice for clear-up after tsunami
Economic livelihoods
- Migration, development & natural disasters: insights from the Indian Ocean tsunami
- Guidelines for community development in the disaster context
- Cash-transfer programming in emergencies
- Socio-economic and gender analysis for emergency and rehabilitation programs
- Back to work - how people are recovering their livelihoods after the tsunami
- Surviving disasters and supporting recovery
- Assessment of the impact of the tsunami on south and southeast Asia
- Beyond the damage: probing the economic and financial consequences of natural disasters
- Microfinance and disaster management
- The Indian Ocean Tsunami: what are the economic consequences?
- Understanding the economic and financial impacts of natural disasters
Health issues
- Emergency manuals and guidelines
- ACT implementation in a humanitarian emergency: case study from the field
- Public health in crisis-affected populations: a practical guide for decision-makers
- Mobile health units in emergency operations: a methodological approach
- Disaster medicine: Manual 2, Health and medical aspects of disasters
- Infant and young child feeding in emergencies
- Mainstream HIV prevention into tsunami response
- Myths and realities in disaster situations
- Asbestos: Medical guidance note
- Indian ocean tsunami health response
- Health information systems in humanitarian emergencies
- Emergency Nutrition Network - www.ennonline.net
- Maintaining tuberculosis control in countries affected by the tsunami
- Asia tsunami: Medical threat matrix
- Guidelines for health emergency
Social recovery
- Protection into practice
- Guidelines for gender sensitive disaster management
- Gender perspective: working together for disaster risk reduction
- Well being and resilience after the Tsunami: psychosocial program in Sri Lanka
- Participation by crisis-affected populations in humanitarian action: handbook for practitioners
- Caught in the storm - the impact of natural disasters on women
- The tsunami's impact on women
- Children in disasters: After the cameras are gone
- Integrating gender into emergency operations
- Tsunami & people with disabilities: Summary of issues for consideration
- Psychosocial support for children affected by the tsunami
- Tsunami curriculum pack for Australian teachers
Environmental rehabilitation
- From conflict to peacebuilding : the role of natural resources and the environment
- Green reconstruction policy guidelines for Aceh
- Calls for green reconstruction of tsunami affected coastline
- Reclaiming soils affected by the tsunami: framework for a reclamation action plan
- After the tsunami: rapid environmental assessment
- Rehabilitation of tsunami affected mangroves needed
- FAO fisheries tsunami relief webpage
- What are the effects of a tsunami on rice production?
- Tsunami salt threat to Indian Ocean islands