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These resources offer insights, best practices, and research aimed at mitigating the impact of disasters. Whether you're seeking the latest research, policy recommendations, or case studies, this library supports knowledge sharing and informed decision-making in building safer, more resilient communities.

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Working out of disaster: improving employment and livelihood in countries affected by the tsunami

This book is dedicated to the many millions of people affected by the disaster who had the courage to get back to work quickly to rebuild their lives and those of their families. It is an attempt to provide a historical and photographic record of courage

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Report on the consultation on health disaster preparedness, mitigation and response in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Syria, 2003

The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO) held a consultation on health disaster preparedness, mitigation and response in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic, on 1-4 December 2003. The objectives of the

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Risk reduction and emergency preparedness: WHO six-year strategy for the health sector and community capacity development

The World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in January 2005 in Kobe, Japan, adopted the Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters and provided and promoted a strategic and systematic approach to

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Regional workshop on lessons learned and best practices in the response to the Indian Ocean tsunami

Report and summary of main conclusions, 13-14 June 2005, Medan, Indonesia,

The aim of the regional workshop was to share reflections and experiences related to the national and international response to the December 2004 tsunami disaster, and to

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Guidelines for the use of foreign field hospitals in the aftermath of sudden-impact disasters

Report on the international workshop, October 2005, Ahmedabad, India

A field hospital is a mobile, self-contained, self-sufficient health care facility capable of rapid deployment and expansion or contraction to meet immediate emergency requirements for

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Children and the tsunami: engaging with children in disaster response, recovery and risk reduction, learning from children’s participation in the tsunami response

This study is both an important work and counter-intuitive. When a major natural disaster of the magnitude of the December 2004 Tsunami or the October 2005 Pakistani earthquake strikes, the instinctive reaction of all concerned is to do whatever is

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Rapid visual screening of buildings for potential seismic hazards: a handbook

The procedure presented in this Handbook is meant to be the preliminary screening phase of a multi-phase procedure for identifying potentially hazardous buildings. Buildings identified by this procedure must be analyzed in more detail by an experienced

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Disaster risk mitigation, potential of micro finance for tsunami recovery

Report on the international workshop, October 2005, Ahmedabad, India

Microfinance has helped victims of disasters accelerate their recovery and diversify their livelihoods with more productive sources of income. Microfinance as an emergency loan has also

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