Documents and publications

This paper asserts that there is no denying that air and water pollution lead to serious negative impacts on health and various economic goods and services, and addresses the valuation of these impacts. Recent advances in our understanding links to a)

The booklet “Why advocate for disaster risk reduction”, covering the issues advocacy and disaster risk reduction (DRR), is jointly produced by Tearfund and World Vision International. The booklet is aimed at organisations which are already involved in DRR

This report identifies a practical methodology to understand and quantify the natural hazards faced by the proposed safe islands or any inhabited island of Maldives.

Building the resilience of nations and communities to disaster: an introduction to the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA):

This brochure outlines what is the Hyogo Framework for Action, its strategic goals and the five priorities for action:

1. Make

This is the first book to look at gender issues in disasters in the context of South Asia, where disasters have a crucial impact on the development process. It shows how exploring the specific capacities and vulnerabilities of men and women in disaster

HPN Network Paper no. 49.

This study presents a cost benefit analysis of two disaster mitigation and preparedness(DMP) interventions in India. The objective of the study is to analyze the net benefits resulting from DMP to assess the cost-effectiveness

This Study is part of DFID’s strategic effort to assess the significance of disaster risk in its development work. It aims to explore evidence on linkages between poverty alleviation, development and disaster risk reduction, and to establish why disaster

This paper is a product of the Third International Conference on Early Warning (EWC III), held in Bonn, Germany from 27-29 March 2006, from the People, Politics and Economics session. The session addressed how to link scientific and technical knowledge