Documents and publications

Recognizing the high disaster risk faced by Metro Manila, various organizations and local stakeholders have initiated the development of a Disaster Risk Management Master Plan (DRMMP) to guide the integration of a risk reduction agenda into ongoing

Worldwide, millions of people are displaced annually because of natural or industrial disasters or social upheaval. Reliable data on the numbers, characteristics, and locations of these populations can bolster humanitarian relief efforts and recovery

In the last years a number of International and National associations suggested guidelines for extreme natural events risk analysis.
CRATER project started from these guidelines and from data gathered after the tsunami of 26th December 2004, with the main

The main purpose of this publication is to reflect in one document recovery assistance and services available to victims of a disaster incident.

It is more than five years since Canberra experienced the devastating ‘firestorm’ on January 18 2003 in which 4 people died. This report details a research project that looked at aspects of the recovery process following the January 2003 bushfire

This brief summarizes the clear priorities for governments and others as an outcome of the emergency summit meeting held on 6 January 2005 in Jakarta. The meeting represented world governments’ unprecedented response to the tsunami that struck the

This briefing note called upon all actors for a signifant 'reconstruction plus', providing a status as of 14 January 2005:  Almost three weeks since the tsunami disaster struck on 26 December 2004, more than one million people living in the Indian Ocean

The purpose of these guidelines is to help coastal communities in the five Pacific states-Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington-understand their tsunami hazards, exposure, and vulnerability, and to mitigate the resulting risk through land use