Four case studies of post-disaster housing reconstruction projects (in Colombia, El Salvador, and Turkey) highlighting the different ways in which users can be and were involved in decision-making, project management, and implementing the projects.
Article outlining experience of reconstruction agencies in the Tsunami recovery in Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
'Disaster Prevention and Management, An International Journal, sets out to advance the available knowledge in the fields of disaster prevention and management and to act as an integrative agent for extant methodologies and activities relating to disaster emergency and crisis management.'
Disasters aims to provide a forum for academics, policy-makers and practitioners for high-quality research and practice related to natural disasters and complex political emergencies around the world.
The purpose of the Guidelines is to offer a set of complementary approaches to flood mitigation, founded on integrated, multidisciplinary consideration of various concepts, measures, and techniques.
'Web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government, civil society and the victims themselves.'
"Many architects perceive the disasters as opportunities to implement good design principles throughout the Gulf Coast. However, ... developments taking shape suggest that design professionals are being excluded from initial relief & planning efforts."
Discussion paper of the World Bank Vulnerability and Adaptation Resource Group outlinging the need for strategic coordination including the exchange of information, methodologies and tools between experts and institutions working on disaster risk manageme
