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Humanitarian approaches
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Disaster Risk Reduction. A review of DRR work by DEC Member Agencies in response to the 2004 Tsunami
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A. Bhattacharjee;M. Bhatt;T. Vaux
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Reliefweb,
2010
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This review report from the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) examines whether its vision of a more long-lasting impact had been achieved in terms of strengthening the 2004 Tsunami-affected populati...
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Locked in: The humanitarian impact of two years of blockade on the Gaza Strip
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Reliefweb,
2009
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This report documents the humanitarian impact of the blockade imposed by Israel on the 1.5 million people living in the Gaza strip. The report describes how the recurrent cycles of violence a...
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Return to Afghanistan?: a study of Afghans living in Mashhad, Islamic Republic of Iran
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J. Mohammad;D. Glazebrook;G. Jamshidiha
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Reliefweb,
2005
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What happens to refugees who spend long periods living in host countries? Why, despite policies aimed to encourage repatriation do some choose not to return? Why do transitory migrants continue to ...
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Cities, disasters and livelihoods
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D. Sanderson
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Reliefweb,
2000
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Does the livelihoods approach help to interpreting the complexities of urban poverty? Can it act as a tool for linking micro level households to macro level municipality controls? Using recent disaste...
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Humanitarian implications of climate change. Mapping emerging trends and risk hotspots
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C. Ehrhart;A. Thow;M. de Blois
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Reliefweb,
2008
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This study identifies the most likely humanitarian implications of climate change for the next 20-30 year period. The authors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to map specific hazards asso...
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Responding to earthquakes 2008
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Reliefweb,
2008
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Resulting from a merging of two earlier papers on humanitarian responses, this paper aims to provide a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes. It concen...
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FAST Early Warning note: maize forecast 10 July 2008 - West Africa
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Reliefweb,
2008
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This paper, produced by EARS Earth Environment Monitoring, provides a preliminary forecast of the maize difference yield that is expected at the end of the current growing season in West Africa.
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G8 and the food crisis: the real solutions
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Reliefweb,
2008
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Taking into consideration, the July 2008 G8 meeting in Tokyo, this paper reviews some of the key problems and potential solutions to the current food crisis. Its core assertion is that the G8 need ...
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Food security and climate change: the answer is biodiversity
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J. Cotter;R. Tirado
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Reliefweb,
2008
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Climate change will profoundly affect agriculture and food security worldwide and will particularly impact smallholder farmers in poor countries. Based on a short review of recent scientific l...
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Stay safe: the International Federation’s guide to a safer mission
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L. Tangen;J. Dyer;K. Julisson
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Reliefweb,
2007
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Humanitarian workers are no longer exempt from attack in conflict situations. Rather it would seem that insurgents – in the brutal theatres of warfare in Iraq, Somalia, Darfur and Afghanistan...
