Towards a resilient future: children and disasters
Southasiadisasters.net special issue no. 104, February 2014:
This issue explores the challenges and constraints of building up the resilience of children to disasters and emergencies. Furthermore, it advocates the best policies and practices that protect and promote the rights of children against the exigencies of disasters. This issue also directly addresses the key area of "Building Community Resilience" of the HFA2 process.
The content includes: (i) Addressing Climate Change in South Asia, with More Focus on Children; (ii) Blighted Childhoods by Uttarakhand Disaster; (iii) Addressing Children’s Vulnerabilities in Tsunami Rehabilitation; (iv) Climate Refugees; (v) Building Safer Education in Urban Areas: A Case of School Disaster Management Plan; (vi) Disaster Risk Reduction for Children by Children; (vii) Children and Disasters; (viii) Children's Participation in Building Resilience; (ix) Women and Disasters; (x) Child-Centred Hazard, Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment; (xi) Child-Centred Disaster Risk Management Planning.
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