Tools and practice
- World Disasters Report 2010: Focus on Urban Risk
- International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , 2010
- This report provides suggestions on how high disaster risk within developing countries cities can be reduced. It also highlights how, in a globalised world, a deficiency on one side of the world can c...
- Desk review on trends in the promotion of community-based disaster risk reduction through legislation
- International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , 2010
- This paper presents a review of literature and recently adopted laws that are linked to the Hyogo Framework goals. It examines how disaster management legislations may promote tangible results at the ...
- Drought in the Horn of Africa: preventing the next disaster
- International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , 2011
- The Horn of Africa’s most serious drought in decades has brought severe humanitarian consequences. Much of the suffering could have been avoided, and in a region plagued by recurrent drought, th...
- World Disasters Report 2009 - focus on early warning, early action
- A. Collins;N. Maunde;M. McNabb / International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , 2009
- This report focuses on two key aspects of disaster risk reduction: early warning and early action. The author states that the decline in injuries, loss of livelihoods and deaths from disasters over...
- Disaster preparedness for climate change in Nicaragua
- International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , 2008
- This two-page briefing describes a pilot initiative on climate change and disaster risk reduction supported by the Netherlands Red Cross in Nicaragua. The project aims at strengthening the Nic...
- World disasters report 2001
- International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , 2001
- This year's World Disasters Report looks at the subject of, and the difficulties involved in, recovery from disasters. The overall picture, particularly for those in the most disaster-prone countries,...
- World Disasters Report
- International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , 1999
- Annual World Disasters Report analyses the crucial humanitarian crises of the past, present and future. The World Disasters Report provides the only regular, comprehensive analysis of the world's ever...
- Preparedness for climate change
- International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , 2003
- It is identified in this paper that climate change is already happening and is likely to result in a variety of impacts for the foreseeable future. These impacts will hit the poor the hardest and due...
- World Disasters Report 2005
- International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , 2005
- The World Disasters Report 2005 focuses on information in disasters and considers the quality of the communication that takes place between those involved in disasters and what impact this information...
- The World Disasters Report 2004
- International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies , 2004
- The World Disasters Report 2004 highlights the ability of many communities struck by disaster to adapt to crisis and to quickly come up with creative solutions to their problem. Taking this into accou...
