Documents and publications

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

From 18 to 20 October, the Munich Re Foundation held the 2005 Microinsurance Conference ‘Making Insurance Work for the Poor: Current Practices and Lessons Learnt’. In cooperation with the CGAP Working Group on Microinsurance, around a hundred selected

This report is a summary of the Microinsurance Conference 2006 held in Cape Town, South Africa, jointly hosted by the CAGP Working Group on Microinsurance and the Munich Re Foundation with the support of FinMark Trust. This event was aimed at discussing

This report provides tables with data and statistics documenting damage to infrastructure, an overview of response activities, and inventory of recovery and reconstruction efforts of Marmara Earthquake in 1999.

Since that dreadful day the international community has pulled together in support of those who have lost everything. Australia was among the first of many countries to offer emergency humanitarian aid. The Australian public’s overwhelming response to the

The first publication of WMO/ESCAP Panel Annual Review was for the year 1997. This is the sixth publication of the Review. Efforts have been made to make it a useful document through which we can realise the scope for further improvement of our warning

Over the last 30 years, resources have been invested in Bangladesh for building cyclone shelters and setting up national warning systems, linked to regional weather forecasting and local volunteer networks. During an ActionAid disaster preparedness pilot

Researchers in the Centre for Disaster Studies (James Cook University) have carried out extensive studies of community vulnerability to natural hazards and natural disasters. The centre has also carried out post disaster studies within the remoter parts