Health & health facilities

This publication is an analysis of the disaster figures in 2006 compared to 2005 and 2000-04.

CRED has been publishing statistics on disasters every year since 1998, thanks to the generous support of the United States Agency for International Development

The emphasis of the study is very much on process. The study try to explore how project-related systems and practices can be used to ensure that risks emanating from natural hazards are appropriately considered (relative to levels of risk) and also, more

"We realized that we still had a long way to go to be able to fully respond to a disaster of such a scale when it happens so abruptly." Jean-Luc Martinage spoke to Andrews Frimpong, Secretary General of the Ghana Red Cross Society.

A fully illustrated book Real Risk offers perspectives, case studies and analysis on disaster risk reduction and mitigation in the light of major natural disasters that have occurred since the publication of Know Risk in early 2005. It brings together the

This book provides guidance, policy orientation and inspiration, as well as serving as a reference for lessons on how to reduce risk and vulnerability to hazards and to meet the challenges of tomorrow. It is intended for people who have an interest in and

This book presents a selection of examples and experiences of disaster reduction that responds to the need for identifying good practices and sharing experiences and information, identified by many - including Governments - during the preparatory process

Disasters such as the earthquakes in Turkey (1999), Gujarat, India (2001) and Bam, Iran (2003) or the cyclones in Grenada, Haiti and the Philippines (2004) call to mind images of a large number of injured victims awaiting medical treatment and makeshift

The report concludes international aid has to stop overwhelming countries with the wrong kind of help. "In Turkey, dozens of countries sent search-and-rescue teams," says Peter Walker, "but the money would be better spent on training local people in