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1. SPUR resources on Disaster Planning
   Site of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association.
   20-11-2012 to cities, community, preparedness, resilience, san francisco, urban, us by ian odonnell
2. US researchers map carbon emissions at street level (BBC, Oct 11 2012)
   12-10-2012 to cities, climate change, emissions, ghg, mitigation by ian odonnell
3. Urban Humanitarian Response Portal (ALNAP and UN-Habitat)
   Global site to share knowledge on urban humanitarian crises.
   19-09-2012 to alnap, cities, development, emergency response, reconstruction, rehabilitation, un-habitat, urban by ian odonnell
4. UNISDR - Welcome to Making Cities Resilient website
   13-05-2012 to campaign, cities, resilient, unisdr, urban by mpetal
5. Climate adaptation through migration: A role for charter cities (VOX, Mar 06 2012)
   Article outlining the application of the charter cities concept to the development of resilient cities in risk prone countries.
   07-03-2012 to adaptation, charter cities, cities, drr, governance, reform, resilience by ian odonnell
6. UNISDR: Disaster risk reduction gains media attention in India - News - Professional Resources - PreventionWeb.net
   03-01-2012 to bhubaneswar, cities, india, orissa by mpetal
7. Floods, heat, migration: How extreme weather will transform cities - CNN.com
   03-01-2012 to cities, climate change, weather by mpetal
8. Local Government – Accounting for Natural Disasters A Guide (State Government of Victoria, 2011)
   'This guide has been developed to assist councils’ with the required accounting recognition, measurement and disclosure requirements that may arise as a result of a natural disaster.'
   31-08-2011 to accounting, asset protection, australia, cities, credit, disasters, financing, insurance, local government by ian odonnell
9. A scenario-based approach to assess Ho Chi Minh City’s urban development strategies against the impact of climate change (Cities, August 2011)
   This paper presents an approach to quantifying current and future city-wide flood risks to Ho Chi Minh City and notes that the influence of planned urban developments to the year 2025 on future flood risk is likely to be significantly greater than that of projected sea-level rise to the year 2100.
   31-08-2011 to adaptation, cities, climate change, flood, land-use, planning, scenarios, urban development, vietnam by ian odonnell
10. MIT SENSEable City Lab
    Center sutdying the impact of the increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics on the design and operation of cities.
    03-07-2011 to cities, data, planning, technology, urban by ian odonnell

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