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1. Cities, Climate Change, and The Big Opportunity: How Empowering the Urban Poor Can Improve Our Global Future
   Article on engaging urban slum communities to strengthen information flows and enable new and better solutions for community resilience.
   18-07-2015 to chf international, gis, global communities, india, information, mapping, slums
2. The D.I.Y. Disaster Plan: Could your neighborhood improvise its own disaster response?
   Essay about Sai NOi where, after the Bangkok floods in 2011, residents "quickly improvised a series of informal networks, and repurposed existing ones, to perform the vital tasks normally carried out by the government in emergencies".
   12-07-2015 to bangkok, diy, neighborhood, response plan, thailand
3. Putting Community Information Needs and Civic Participation at the Heart of Disaster Recovery
   12-07-2015 to civic engagement, hurricane sandy, participation, philanthropy, recovery
4. Cartographies of Disaster: The Japanese earthquake changed our relationship to place, and post-disaster social media changed it again
   Essay on how our 'sense of place' in relation to disaster events is evolving. The essay looks especially at how the stream of posts on Twitter evolved as the triple disaster in Japan developed after the March 2011 earthquake.
   12-07-2015 to earthquake, geography, japan, mapping, secondary impacts, social media, twitter
5. Social Media in China Fuel Citizen Response to Quake (NY Times, May 11 2013)
   12-05-2013 to china, community, earthquake, response, social media
6. Storm Effort Causes a Rift in a Shifting Occupy Movement (NY Times, Apr 30 2013)
   Article about the evolution of Occupy during the Hurrican Sandy response.
   01-05-2013 to community, hurricane, occupy, recovery, response, sandy, spontaneous
7. Reforming Federal Support for Risky Development (Brookings Institute, Feb 26 2013)
   Paper proposing a series of reforms to the US federal budget to Incentivize disaster-resistant development.
   23-03-2013 to development, drr, investment, resilience, us
8. Foursquare check-ins in NYC durin Hurricane Sandy (2012)
   21-03-2013 to hurricane, impact, sandy, social media
9. Map Your Neighborhood (State of Washington emergency Management Division)
   A program designed to help neighborhoods prepare for disasters by mapping neighborhood capacities as well as areas of vulnerability and special need.
   15-03-2013 to capacity, community, mapping, neighborhood, us, vulnerability
10. Capturing the Stories of a Hurricane’s Survivors (NY Times, Mar 14 2013)
    15-03-2013 to communication, hurricane, learning, oral history, recovery, research, sandy

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