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    How resilient is your coastal community?

    US Agency for International Development, 2007
    Building on lessons learned and experience gained in the Indian Ocean region after the 2004 tsunami, this Coastal Community Resilience (CCR) Guide aims to address coastal hazards and reduce risk to vulnerable communities.
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    Climate resilient cities. A primer on reducing vulnerabilities to climate change impacts and strengthening disaster risk management in East Asian cities

    World Bank, 2008
    This primer is a guide for local governments in East Asia to help them understand the concepts and consequences of climate change and how climate change consequences contribute to urban vulnerabilities.
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    Towards national resilience: Good practices of national platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction 2008

    United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2008
    Aimed at national disaster management authorities and national disaster risk reduction stakeholders, this paper intends to further national commitments and action in establishing and working through national platforms to reduce disaster risk.
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    Annual disaster statistical review: the numbers and trends 2007

    Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, 2008
    This paper reports on the effects of disasters on human populations in 2007. It analyses the 2007 disaster figures with comparisons to previous years, looking at where disasters are occurring, and which areas are the hardest hit.
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    Responding to earthquakes 2008

    Reliefweb, 2008
    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 concentrates on issues of particular relevance in earthquakes.
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    Preparing for disaster: a community based appraoch

    ProVention Consortium, 2005
    During the past decade less people have died in natural disasters, but more and more lives and livelihoods are affected by the negative consequences of them. The increase is steep, triggered by more frequent extreme weather conditions with twice as many affected only in the last five years. [Adapted from author]. This guide outlines community based disaster preparedness.
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    Does aid mitigate external shocks?

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008
    This paper investigates the role of aid in mitigating the adverse effects of commodity export price shocks on growth in commodity-dependent countries. It also looks at whether aid has historically been targeted at shock-prone countries. Some key findings include:
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    Targeting in complex emergencies: South Sudan country case study

    Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, 2008
    With a focus on Southern Sudan, this paper examines community participation through the food aid program cycle, both retrospectively (during the war) and currently. It aims to investigate the participation of recipient community in the targeting and management of humanitarian food assistance in complex emergencies.
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    Coping with riverbank erosion induced displacement

    Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2007
    Each year, tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh are internally displaced as a consequence of riverbank erosion. Yet, such erosion does not draw the attention of policy makers in the same way that other natural disasters do and as a result, a number of coping mechanisms are employed by those affected, with the burden of displacement largely falling on women.
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    Organisational change in the humanitarian sector

    Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action, 2008
    How do organisations change how they work? This chapter addresses the topic of change in humanitarian organisations. Drawing on the findings of a literature review and group interviews the authors question the efficacy of some of our traditional approaches to change.

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