http://www.drrlibrary.org/ Recent bookmarks posted to DRRlibrary 60 http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001817.html mpetal Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:13:51 +0000 recycling relief response shelter tent cities http://saharsa.bih.nic.in/ An official website for the district that provides up to date information on relief and response activities and other relevant information, including information about the disaster management department in Saharsa. ian odonnell Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:50:40 +0000 bihar district floods india kosi local government relief response saharsa southasia http://disastermgmt.bih.nic.in/ ian odonnell Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:26:11 +0000 bihar district floods india kosi meso planning relief southasia http://www.proventionconsortium.org/?pageid=37&publicationid=152#152 'This briefing paper provides a distillation of the learning from thirty years of humanitarian response to earthquakes, looking at preparedness, relief and recovery.' ian odonnell Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:41:51 +0000 alnap china chinese earthquake preparedness provention recovery relief response 汉语 http://sic.conversationsnetwork.org/series/disasterRelief.html Set of podcasts about innovation in disaster management. Sponsored by the Stanford Graduate School of Business Center for Social Innovation. ian odonnell Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:33:29 +0000 audio disaster innovation podcast relief http://www.proventionconsortium.org/themes/default/pdfs/ALNAP-ProVention_flood_lessons.pdf This briefing paper provides a synthesis of and introduction to key lessons from evaluations of relief and recovery/humanitarian response to flooding in the last 20 years from Africa, Asia and the Americas. ian odonnell Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:06:29 +0000 alnap evaluation flood learning lessons provention recovery relief risk reduction http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/12/13/semantic-wikis-and-disaster-relief-operations.html An article proposing using wikis to share information faster and more easily during emergencies and ways to enhance them semantically. ian odonnell Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:24:10 +0000 collaboration coordination disaster emergency relief response technology web 2.0 wikis http://www.altlawforum.org/Resources/Tsunami/Dalit%20Tsunami.doc Article hosted by the Alternative Law Forum on impacts of the caste system on food security in the tsunami-affected states in India. ian odonnell Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:28:32 +0000 caste foodsecurity india insurance law needsassessment recovery relief southasia tsunami vulnerability http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_page.aspx?ar=1721&L2=33&L3=95&srid=17&gp=0 Article evaluating non-profit performance in relief and reconstruction after the Indian Ocean Tusnami. ian odonnell Sat, 24 Dec 2005 07:48:36 +0000 asia coordination disaster improvement indonesia learning ngos rebuilding reconstruction recovery relief southasia srilanka tsunami http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=SP30717 Article describing the boom of spontaneous aid groups that were started after the Indian Ocean Tsunami. ian odonnell Fri, 16 Dec 2005 04:18:02 +0000 asia assistance recovery relief self-organization southasia spontaneous srilanka tsunami http://earthquake05.un.org.pk/ The Humanitarian Information Centre (HIC) for Pakistan is a common service to the humanitarian community managed by the UN OCHA to provide access to timely and accurate information in order to make relief efforts more effective. ian odonnell Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:40:36 +0000 asia clusters collaboration coordination disaster earthquake pakistan recovery relief response southasia un http://www.alnap.org/pubs/pdfs/ALNAP-ProVention_SAsia_Quake_Lessonsa.pdf "This briefing paper provides a synthesis of key lessons learned from relief responses to past earthquakes. The main intended audiences are operational decision-makers and relief programme managers working in the South Asia earthquake relief operation." ian odonnell Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:27:31 +0000 asia assessment earthquake emergency learning pakistan proventionpublication relief response shelter southasia http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/01/AR2005100101437.html Article about interim housing solutions for victims of Hurricane Katrina. ian odonnell Sun, 02 Oct 2005 18:23:12 +0000 housing hurricane katrina nola northamerica recovery relief shelter us http://www.index2005.dk/Members/mimade/communityObject The Zip-Shelter is a "rapidly deployable shelter for cold or hot climate conditions, for use by refugees, migrants and for expeditions". It is meant to enable flexible configuration for self-configuration for a variety of shelter and community needs/conte ian odonnell Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:15:18 +0000 design disaster emergency housing relief shelter technology http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/40/ Blod discussion of using sociall tagging to support coordination and participation in Hurricane Katrina relief and recovery activities. ian odonnell Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:51:06 +0000 collaboration coordination disaster emergency hurricane katrina recovery relief tagging technology