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    Recording disaster losses: Recommendations for a European approach

    Directorate-General for Research - European Commission, 2013
    This study provides technical recommendations for a European approach to standardize loss databases. Loss data are useful for the implementation of disaster risk reduction strategies in Europe and to help understand disaster loss trends at global level.
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    Disaster event: Window of opportunity to implement global disaster policies?

    Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, 2013
    This article focuses on the potentially constructive nature of disasters, creating windows of opportunities to address the overlooked and neglected aspects of disaster risk reduction. It uses material from the Zimbabwe cholera disaster of 2008–2009, viewing it as a potential window of opportunity to accelerate the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action.
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    Climate Change and rural institutions in Central Viet Nam

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2013
    The working paper focuses on how meso-level institutions in Central Viet Nam are responding to climate change and extreme climate events – especially in regards to coastal zones. It describes emerging policies and trends in institutional response to climate change, with emphasis on the convergence of this response with disaster risk management and broader development efforts.
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    Displacement and older people: the case of the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011

    HelpAge International, 2014
    Since the East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on 11 March 2011, recovery and reconstruction activities have been taking place. Due to unimaginable changes of circumstances, effects on the daily lives of older people have been dramatic.
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    Dare to prepare: taking risk seriously

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    The key messages of this report are:
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    The climate change agenda in Zambia National interests and the role of development cooperation

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2013
    This working paper aims to deepen understanding of the climate change agenda in Zambia. It focuses on three features: It provides an overview of the disaster management and climate change framework at national level, it examines the role and extent of aid to climate change, and it discusses the interests of the central government in climate change.
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    Rio de Janeiro City’s early warning system for heavy rain

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    The city of Rio de Janeiro has developed a highly efficient early warning system (EWS) that is having an impressive impact after just three years in operation. The measures employed are innovative, inclusive and non-resource intensive, and are thus highly applicable to cities in other developing regions.
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    Disaster risk governance in volcanic areas

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    This paper develops an approach under Work Package 4 (WP4) of the Strengthening Resilience in Volcanic Areas (STREVA) programme for analysing the institutional factors that shape collective action to reduce disaster risk. The key messages include:
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    Building resilience: Integrating climate and disaster risk into development

    World Bank, 2013
    This report, targeted at development practitioners and national policy makers, argues that climate and disaster resilient development is essential to eliminating extreme poverty and achieving shared prosperity by 2030. Such development requires start-up costs which can pay in the long run.
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    The environment and gender index (EGI): 2013 pilot

    World Conservation Union, 2013
    This pilot of the Environment and Gender Index aims to measure country performance at the intersection of gender, environment, and sustainable development. Socially constructed determinants can contribute to women’s disempowerment.

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