Briefing paper which highlights key lessons from past urban responses to guide local authorities, national governments, international agencies, the private sector, and community organisations in approaching the challenges of addressing and responding to disaster risks in urban environments.
This special issue of Participatory Learning and Action focuses on recent approaches to climate change adaptation and discusses how community-based approaches to climate change have emerged, and the similarities and differences between CBA and other participatory development and disaster risk reduction approaches.
Desktop review of the state of climate change resarch and policy in Southeast Asia.
Short article describing efforts to go beyond green building standards to green district standards. Examples mentioned for Portland, Seattle, and cities in China.
Guide developed by the village panchayat of Kuthambakkam which is 30 Kms away from Chennai in Tamilnadu.
Presentation by Arzu Taylan, City and Regional Planning at METU, about the earthquake insurance systems in Turkey and disaster risks both posed by and to small businesses in Turkey.
A series of 14 guidance notes for use by development organisations in adapting programming, project appraisal and evaluation tools to mainstream disaster risk reduction into development work in hazard-prone countries.
Five year action plan to assist Jackson County, Oregon in reducing risk and preventing loss from future natural hazard events.
