http://www.drrlibrary.org/ Recent bookmarks posted to DRRlibrary 60 http://globalnetworkdr.blogspot.com/ Blog of the global network of civil society organizations on disater risk reduction. ian odonnell Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:59:28 +0000 accountability blog cbos civil society climate change drr ngos risk reduction http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/on-elephants-memories-human-forgetfulness-and-disaster/?ex=1219204800&en=773037fc0e19421a&ei=5070 mpetal Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:23:22 +0000 disaster disaster risk reduction memory risk reduction http://www.tearfund.org/webdocs/website/Campaigning/Policy%20and%20research/DRR%20legislation.pdf 'This report examines the building blocks of successful legislative reform for disaster risk reduction, and presents a detailed account of the reform process in South Africa.' ian odonnell Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:56:47 +0000 drr governance legislation reform risk reduction southafrica tearfund http://www.tearfund.org/webdocs/Website/Campaigning/Policy%20and%20research/Practice%20into%20Policy%20D5.pdf Between 2006 and 2007, Tearfund undertook an extensive piece of research among communities and governments in South, South East and Central Asia and Africa to identify good practice in community-based disaster risk management and identify the challenges in linking CBDRM with government policy and practice, and methods to overcome them. ian odonnell Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:49:53 +0000 drr policy practice risk reduction tearfund http://www.tearfund.org/webdocs/Website/Campaigning/CCA_and_DRR_web.pdf 'This report looks at similarities and differences between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (DRR), and discusses the rationale for adopting a more integrated approach to these issues.' ian odonnell Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:44:56 +0000 adaptation climate change drr risk reduction tearfund http://www.preventionweb.net/english/ UNISDR's website on DRR provides a range of resources including articles on key themes, organizational descriptions, event listing, job resources, etc. ian odonnell Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:16:11 +0000 drr risk reduction unisdr 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://nutrition.tufts.edu/pdf/research/famine/proactive_look_post_kobe.pdf "This report seeks to analyze the underlying causes of continued disaster vulnerability, to showcase best practice from the field and to highlight some of the key issues emerging from the WCDR Conference at Kobe." ian odonnell Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:50:03 +0000 ben wisner civil society collaboration coordination development disaster kobe mdgs partnerpublication peter walker prevention private sector reduction risk risk reduction tufts un wcdr