Disasters and Emergencies
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Toward Resilience
Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte Sterrett, Amy Hilleboe
Toward Resilience is an introductory resource for development and humanitarian practitioners working with populations at risk of disasters and other impacts of climate change. It is aimed at program management, advisory and technical staff of development and humanitarian organizations, and seeks to...
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Hacia la Resiliencia
Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte Sterrett, Amy Hilleboe
Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation is an introductory resource for development and humanitarian practitioners working with populations at risk of disasters and other impacts of climate change. It is aimed at program management, advisory and technical...
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Vers la Résilience
Marilise Turnbull, Charlotte Sterrett, Amy Hilleboe
Vers Résilience: Un guide pour la réduction des risques de catastrophes et adaptation au changement climatique est une ressource d'introduction pour le développement et les acteurs humanitaires travaillant avec les populations à risque de catastrophes et autres impacts du changement climatique. Il e...
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EMMA: le guide pratique
Markets are a crucial component of how people survive. Understanding how markets are disrupted in emergencies is critical to any analysis of hunger, and to food and livelihood security. The Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis Toolkit (EMMA) is a guidance manual to assist front-line staff to make r...
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From Vulnerability to Resilience
From Vulnerability to Resilience – V2R – is a framework for analysis and action to reduce vulnerability and strengthen the resilience of individuals, households and communities. The framework sets out the key factors that contribute to peoples’ vulnerability, namely, exposure to hazards and stresses...
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Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis Toolkit
Markets are a crucial component of how people survive. Understanding how markets are disrupted in emergencies is critical to any analysis of hunger, and to food and livelihood security. The Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis Toolkit (EMMA) is a guidance manual to assist front-line staff to make r...
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Building Back Better
The devastating impact of disasters on the world’s population is on the increase, influenced by climate change, urbanization, and persistent high levels of poverty, among other factors. There is a growing demand for reconstruction at scale. This book asks whether large-scale reconstruction can be pa...
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Lessons from Aceh
The Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004 devastated the coastline in Aceh province on the northern tip of Indonesia leaving 167,000 people dead and over half a million people without homes. This resulted in an unprecedented humanitarian response. Over the next three years the Disasters Emergency...
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Right to Survive
More than 230 million people around the world are affected by emergencies each year. New research for this report predicts that, by 2015, this number could grow by 40 per cent to 325 million – partly as a result of the increasing threat of climate-related disasters and conflict. The predicted scale...
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El derecho a sobrevivir
Más de 230 millones de personas en todo el mundo se ven afectadas por situaciones de emergencia cada año. Nueva investigación para este informe prevé que, en 2015, este número podría crecer un 40 por ciento a 325 millones - en parte como resultado de la creciente amenaza de los desastres y los confl...