| UNDP
Publications on Disasters - Key Resources |
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| Key
Resources on Disaster Reduction
(April
2005) |
Reducing
Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development |
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 A
Global Report
Some 75 percent of the world’s population live in areas
affected at least once by earthquake, tropical cyclone, flood or
drought between 1980 and 2000. This Report shows
that billions of people in more than 100 countries are periodically
exposed to at least one event of earthquake, tropical cyclone, flood
or drought. As a result of disasters triggered by these natural
hazards, more than 184 deaths per day are recorded in different
parts of the world. (...)
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PowerPoint
Presentation - 25 slides - 1.3MB
Press Book: RDR Launch |
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| Visions
of Risk - WCDR Version - January 2005
Only available as PDF |
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Report for the ISDR Inter-Agency Task Force on disaster Reduction
Working Group 3: Risk, Vulnerability and Disaster Impact Assessment
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- 2.31MB - 73 pages
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International
Strategy for Disaster Reduction-ISDR: Living with Risk, A global
review of disaster reduction initiatives 2002 |
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Preliminary
version
In recent years the world has witnessed an interminable succession
of disasters -- floods, storms, earthquakes, landslides, volcanic
eruptions and wildfires that have claimed many thousands of lives,
caused material losses in the tens of billions of dollars, and inflicted
a terrible toll on developing countries in particular, where disasters
divert attention and resources needed desperately to escape poverty.
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- 7.3MB - 387 pages
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Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis - Joint World Bamk /
Columbia University / UNDP Publication - 31st March 2005 |
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The
report was a joint effort of the World Bank’s HMU and the
Earth Institute’s CHRR, IRI, and the Center for International
Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). The core project team
included researchers from the World Bank’s Development Economics
Research Group, and the International Center for Geohazards at
the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, in addition to the World
Bank’s HMU and the Earth Institute. The project also worked
closely with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and
the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which recently
published the report Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development.
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- Click here for information on ordering the “Hotspots”
report and on accessing the core datasets developed by the project
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| UNEP
- United Nations Environment Programme : After the Tsunami - Rapid
Environmental Assessment (Feb. 2005) |
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New
report by the United Nations Environment Programme underlines
the importance of managing the reconstruction in an environmentally
sensitive way. Buildings and other infrastructure need to be
built in less vulnerable areas and to standards that will protect
them and their inhabitants in the event of future tsunamis.
This makes sense not only in respect to tsunamis but also with
respect to storms surges, floods, hurricanes and other extreme
weather events. (...)
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- 9.33MB - 145 pages
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ILO-International
Labour Organisation Resources on Recovery and Reconstruction
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Link
to the ILO - International Labour Organisation Crisis and Reconstruction
Publication Webpage. (...)
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DFID
- United Kingdom Department For International Development Resources
on Conflict & Disaster Management
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Link
to the DFID-UK Department For International Development Resources
on Conflict & Disaster Management Publication Websection. (...)
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Disaster
Profiles of the Least Developed Countries |
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Third
United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries
Brussels, Belgium, 14-20 May 2001
The signifiant detrimental impact of disasters on the development
process has been long recognised. Both previous United Nations Conferences
on the Least Developed Countries acknowledged the disproportionately
high human, social and economic cost of disasters on LDCs. as a
point of entry to the problem, the Action Plans for conference follow-up
were primarily focussed on improving response preparedness rethar
than investing in risk reduction measures anchored in development.
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- 1.41MB - 56 pages
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| Other
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| UNDP
Support to Institutional and Legislative Systems for Disaster
Risk Management - Executive Summary |
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The
full report will be published in 2005
The UNDP report Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for
Development has highlighted governance as a key unresolved issue
in both the configuration as well as the reduction of disaster
risk. Thus, the need to further strengthen institutional and legislative
systems for disaster risk management remains as topical and needed
as ever, if lasting and profound improvements are to be achieved
in reducing the level of disaster risk to which the majority of
poor and marginalized populations are still exposed to.
PDF
Document - 259 KB - 11 pages
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| Disaster
Reduction Unit Brochure - January 2005 Update |
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The
updated version of the Unit's Brochure, a good resume of DRU's mission,
vision and work...
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- 218 KB - 2 pages
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| UNDP/BCPR
DRU Press Kit - Launched at the WCDR - January 2005 |
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Corporate
Report Overview - Online Publication |
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The
UNDP Corporate Report on Disaster Reduction will provide a global
corporate overview of past and present UNDP activities in the field
of disaster reduction and recovery
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- 2.1MB - 15 pages
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| Other
UNDP Publications |
UNDP
Reports |
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UNDP
has published a report on its assistance to the tsunami recovery
and reconstruction efforts for the past year. It is meant to provide
examples of how UNDP is helping people who survived the tsunami
rebuild their lives now, and for the future.
UNDP
December 2005
Survivors
of the tsunami: one year later
UNDP Assisting communities to build back better (PDF
Document 2.0)
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Cultural
Liberty in Today’s Diverse World
Accommodating people’s growing demands for their inclusion
in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language,
takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are
multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity
and promote cultural freedoms, so that all people can choose to
speak their language, practice their religion, and participate
in shaping their culture—so that all people can choose to
be who they are. (...)
For more information on UNDP Human Development Reports
please visit:
http://hdr.undp.org/2004/
and other UNDP
Annual Reports:
http://www.undp.org/annualreports/
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ECLAC
Handbook for estimating the socio-economics and environmental
effects of disasters |
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Disasters
have a major impact on the living conditions, economic performance
and environmental assets and services of affected countries or regions.
Consequences may be long term and may even irreversibly affect economic
and social structures and the environment. In industrialized countries,
disasters cause massive damage to the large stock of accumulated
capital while losses of human life are limited thanks, among other
factors, to the availability of effective early warning and evacuation
systems, as well as better urban planning and the application of
strict building codes and standards.
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- 9MB - 357 pages
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International
Strategy for Disaster Reduction-ISDR: Living with Risk, A global
review of disaster reduction initiatives 2004 |
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“While
many people are aware of the terrible impact of disasters throughout
the world, few realize that this is a problem that we can do something
about. This report, Living with Risk: A Global Review of Disaster
Reduction Initiatives, should help to change that.
Disasters are a problem that we can and must reduce. I commend this
publication to all involved in the effort to build resilient communities
and nations in our hazard-filled planet.”
Kofi A. Annan, UN Secretary General
Not available in PDF, please refer to UN
Publications website to order the publication
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