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    Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

    CRED promotes research, training, and information dissemination on disasters, with a special focus on public health, epidemiology, structural and socio-economic aspects.
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    Building back better: post-earthquake responses and educational challenges in Pakistan

    International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2008
    A powerful earthquake struck the northern areas of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on 8 October, 2005. The timing of the quake and the low quality of school construction were factors in its major impact on the education sector.
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    ‘Civil society with guns is not civil society’: aid, security and civil society In Afghanistan

    Centre for Civil Society, LSE, 2008
    Afghanistan has become the first theatre in which the USA’s seemingly contradictory goals of the War on Terror and the promotion of liberal democracy and free markets are being played out to their full. This paper examines the intensified convergence of aid, security and foreign policy goals since 9/11 and its effects on civil society in the context of Afghanistan.
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    Disaster risk management systems analysis

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008
    The authors of this guide assert that there are few practical tools to guide the analysis of national, district and local institutions and systems for Disaster Risk management (DRM) - and to conceptualise and provide demand-responsive capacity-building thereafter.
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    A new agenda for news media and humanitarian aid

    Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action, 2008
    The report draws on debates at the 23rd Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (LNAP) meeting held on the 4th June 2008 in Madrid - as well as a broader programme of research and analysis. This paper seeks to present decision makers across the donor, media and humanitarian communities with a series of new opportunities and challenges for impr
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    Climate change impact and disaster vulnerabilities in the coastal areas of Bangladesh

    Equity and Justice Working Group, 2007
    Focusing on the coastal areas of Bangladesh, this report analyses the impact of disasters with specific reference to the effects of climate change. It also looks at the nature of the disasters that frequently occur and discusses efforts to mitigate their impact.
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    Humanitarian implications of climate change. Mapping emerging trends and risk hotspots

    Reliefweb, 2008
    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 associated with climate change – specifically: floods, cyclones and droughts – and place them in relation to factors influencing vulnerability.
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    Older people and cyclone Nargis: a study of the situation of older people 100 days on

    HelpAge International, 2008
    Leaving a wake of destruction in the Ayeyarwady Delta in May 2008, Cyclone Nargis is considered the greatest single natural disaster in Myanmar’s history. This study, carried out 100 days after the cyclone struck, provides a picture of the situation of older people in three affected townships: Kyiak Lat, Dedeye, and Pyapon.
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    When disaster strikes: a guide to assessing seed system security

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2008
    Intervening in seed systems is serious business. Seed systems are at the heart of agricultural production and determines what farmers grow and whether they will have a harvest. Badly designed and poorly implemented seed aid during a crisis harms farmers, making them even more vulnerable to uncertainties.
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    Tsunami Warning Center Reference Guide

    US Agency for International Development, 2007
    In the aftermath of the Great Sumatra Earthquake and Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26, 2004, countries of the Indian Ocean basin formed an Intergovernmental Coordination Group (ICG) for the development of an Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System (IOTWS). An effective end-to-end tsunami early warning system could have saved thousands of lives that were lost in the devastating tsunami.

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