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Awareness & education of risk reduction
Responding to earthquakes 2008
This paper aims to provide a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes.
Lessons are drawn from 29 earthquakes in total, with the main focus on events in the present century including: the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, 2003 Bam earthquake, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis, 2005 Pakistan earthquake and the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake.
(ALNAP: 2008)
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Good practices and lessons learned from experiences in the Asia-Pacific Region
This publication aims to build awareness of indigenous knowledge as an effective tool to reduce risk from natural disasters by providing a collection of 18 indigenous practices from communities in the Asia Pacific region. (UNISDR: July 2008) More info >>
Nepal's school safety approach and the scaling up strategy
This document provides information on a comprehensive approach to school safety which can be used, promoted and replicated by others. (ActionAid Nepal) More info >>
Coalition for Global School Safety (COGSS)
The Coalition for Global School Safety (COGSS) is dedicated to fostering, supporting and encouraging disaster risk reduction in the education sector. (Coalition for Global School Safety (COGSS)) More info >>
School safety and educational material: Risk RED
Risk RED develops educational materials with a focus on adults (the general public), children, and schools relating to disaster risk reduction education. (Risk RED) More info >>
Gender perspectives: integrating disaster risk reduction into climate change adaptation
This publication points out the vital connection between women's experiences of natural resource management, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, and how they can come together to make whole communities strong and sustainable. (UN-ISDR: 2008) More info >>
Towards a culture of prevention: disaster risk reduction begins at school
This publication highlights initiatives which have been taken worldwide to make school buildings safer, and have children take an active role in disaster risk reduction by teachings in schools. (International Strategy for Disaster Reduction: 2007) More info >>
Library on disaster risk reduction: International strategy for disaster reduction
The Library has specialized in disaster risk reduction and related issues such as sustainable development, climate change, early warning systems, human settlements, environment, education and gender. (International strategy for disaster reduction: Asia & Pacific) More info >>
Field library initiative for disaster reduction (ISDR)
This initiative is part of the UN Library to equip the local communities affected by disasters with the necessary information and knowledge on disaster risk reduction. (International strategy for disaster reduction: Asia & Pacific) More info >>