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    Disaster risk reduction in Dhaka City: frrom urban landscape analysis to opportunities for DRR integration

    International Centre for Climate Change and Development, 2012
    The geographical location of Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal leaves the country susceptible to significant climate change impacts that exacerbate environmental hazards. In the urban context, disasters and hazards are posed by flood and waterlogging, earthquakes and fires.
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    Setting, measuring and monitoring targets for reducing disaster risk: Recommendations for post-2015 international policy frameworks

    Overseas Development Institute, 2014
    Based on disaster risk data sets and further evidence from recent history, this report highlights what this agreed approach could look like, what the challenges may be, and offers ten proposals for this global monitoring framework on disaster risk reduction (DRR).  The report argues that, with disaster risk continuing to increase in many regions, action is needed to reverse the trend.
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    Rapid desk-based study: Understanding the relative strength of climate signals compared to other expected development results

    Evidence on Demand, 2014
    This rapid desk-based study provides evidence for understanding the relative strength of climate signals compared to other expected development results. The report summarises overall findings in a ‘traffic light’ rating (red, amber, green) and sets out some of the contested nature of findings. It also summarises the evidence to understand climate signals as drivers of development.
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    Financing the Resilient City: A demand driven approach to development, disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation

    ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, 2011
    ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability - proposes cities pioneer a demand-driven approach to climate financing.
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    Sheltering from a gathering storm: Typhoon resilience in Vietnam

    Institute For Social And Environmental Transition, 2014
    This case study documents the rapid urbanization and economic development of Da Nang, a city in central Vietnam. It’s geography – being located on the tropical storm belt, and characterised by both mountain ranges and low-lying coastal areas – renders it a disaster prone city affected by various water-related hazards which translate into catastrophe on an annual basis.
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    World Disasters Report: Focus on culture and risk

    International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2014
    For 2014 the World Disasters Report looks at different aspects of how culture affects disaster risk reduction (DRR) and how disasters and risk influence culture. It highlights that most people who live in places that are exposed to serious hazards are aware of the risks they face, including earthquakes, tropical cyclones, tsunami, volcanic eruptions, floods, landslides and droughts.
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    Global Estimates 2014: People displaced by disasters

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2014
    IDMC’s latest Global Estimates report shows that 22 million people were displaced in 2013 by disasters brought on by natural hazard events. As in previous years, the worst affected region is Asia, where 19 million people, or 87.1 per cent of the global total, were displaced during the year.
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    The role of education in responding to natural disasters

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2011
    The role for education in natural disaster management that appeared most frequently in the literature is teaching children risk reduction and management material. Children often spread learning to their families and communities and many believe that ‘educating a child is educating a family’.
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    Assessment of vulnerability to natural hazards at subnational level: provincial estimates for the Philippines

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    Vulnerability to natural hazards is measured like hazard frequencies that reflect the predisposition of a system to extreme events at a certain instant of time. The measurement of vulnerability is found useful in the conception of disaster preparedness and positioning regions or countries for aid support.
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    The impact of natural disasters on income and poverty: framework and some evidence from Philippine households

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2013
    Although understanding the impact of natural disasters on income and poverty at the household level is important for disaster-prone and poverty-stricken countries, empirical works on the subject have been limited so far. A major reason behind this is that standard national household surveys generally do not include the collection of data and information on natural disasters.

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