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AID All in Diary: a practical tool for field based humanitarian workers [PDF 1286KB]

The immediate pressures of working in a disasters environment mean that humanitarian workers can struggle to access the most relevant information needed for the situation in which they are working. The AID All In Diary is designed for use in disaster situations and is specifically aimed at field based humanitarian workers in international and local NGOs. It aims to improve the quality and appropriateness of relief work and offers a comprehensive single source of the most up-to-date humanitarian information and resources.(L. Richardson; G. Price, 2009)

http://www.allindiary.org/uploads/All_AID_web_based_version_15.4.09.pdf

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Red Cross International Humanitarian Action Training (IHAT) courses

25-27 March (Melbourne); 15-17 July (Brisbane); 28-30 Oct (Sydney) IHAT is a three-day introductory course for professionals and volunteers, designed to provide the skills essential to respond effectively in a humanitarian crisis. Application is now open for March, July & October courses.

http://www.redcross.org.au/ourservices_aroundtheworld_overseasaidworkers_IHATcourse.htm

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Gambling with Gaia: Geoengineering and iron fertilization

Weather modification and environmental manipulation in attempts to control climate change. "The US government is lobbying for "geoengineering" activities such as deliberately polluting the stratosphere to deflect sunlight and lower temperatures. At least 9 national governments and the European Union have supported experiments to spread iron filings on the ocean surface to nurture plankton and sequester carbon dioxide. At least a dozen additional countries are involved in stratospheric weather/climate modification. Commercial carbon traders are engaging in ocean fertilization as well. The scientific debate and the government and commercial experimentation is taking place, once again, in the absence of public discussion." (ETC, 2007)

http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=608

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Geoengineering

A concise summary by Dr Tim Ball on geoengineering proposals to modify the climate. Solutions include: dams to reduce cold water flow, sunlight reflectors, adding sulphur to the atmosphere, reducing glacier melt, iron filings on the surface of the ocean, and lime into the oceans to increase carbon dioxide absorbtion. The report contains links to further discussion and critiques on these proposals. (Dr Tim Ball, FOS, 2008)

http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/Geoengineering%20FOS.pdf

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'Humanitarian Learning' - emergency manuals and guidelines

A collection of resources and manuals from Oxfam addressing water and sanitation issues in emergency situations, such as assessing water quality and malaria control. (Oxfam, ongoing series)

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/learning/humanitarian/index.html

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Slow-onset disasters: drought and food and livelihoods insecurity [pdf]

This paper provides a synthesis of key lessons learnt from evaluations of relief and recovery responses to past slow-onset disasters - particularly drought, and food and livelihoods insecurity. (by Kerren Hedlund, ALNAP and ProVention Consortium, 2007)

http://www.alnap.org/publications/pdfs/ALNAP-ProVention_lessons_on_slow-onset_disasters.pdf

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Shelter: beyond tents and tarpaulins- Red Cross/Red Crescent Magazine Edition 2, 2008

How can we help people fleeing their homes following natural disaster or armed conflict? What type of shelter can the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement offer them? Also in this issue: the global food crisis; fighting in Chad; the cyclone in Myanmar; the earthquake in China and female genital mutilation in Cameroon (ICRC, 2008).

http://www.redcross.int/EN/mag/magazine2008_2/index.html

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World Disasters Report 2008 - Focus on HIV and AIDS

This International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crecesnt Societies report focuses on the 'AIDS epidemic' arguing it 'is a disaster on many levels. In the most affected countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where prevalence rates reach 20 per cent, development gains are reversed and life expectancy may be halved."

http://www.ifrc.org/Docs/pubs/disasters/wdr2008/WDR2008-full%20report-LR.pdf

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Gender and Disaster Network

The Gender and Disaster Network is an educational project initiated by women and men interested in gender relations in disaster contexts.

http://www.gdnonline.org/

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Communicating disasters: an Asia Pacific resource book

Aimed at media professionals, disaster managers, development workers and civil society groups across Asia this book provides different perspectives and practical advice on how to communicate hazards and disasters at inter-personal, inter-agency, inter-sector and public levels. (Gunawardene,N. and Noronha,F, Television for Education Asia Pacific, 2007)

http://www.tveap.org/index.php?q=communicating_disasters.php

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Protecting persons affected by natural disaster: IASC operational guidelines on human rights and natural disasters

The UN inter-agency standing committee (IASC) argue that If humanitarian assistance is not based on a human rights framework, it risks having too narrow a focus, and cannot integrate all the basic needs of the victims into a holistic planning process. These guidelines, aimed at intergovernmental and non governmental humanitarian actors, provide tools for the implementation of rights based approaches in situations of natural disasters.(Brookings Institution,2006)

http://www3.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/2006_IASC_NaturalDisasterGuidelines.pdf

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The livelihood assessment tool-kit: analysing and responding to the impact of disasters on the livelihoods of people

The increase in natural disasters around the world warrants attention to protecting and rebuilding the livelihoods of vulnerable populations. This toolkit aims to assess the impact of disasters on the livelihoods of people and the capacity and opportunities for recovery and increased resilience to future events. It is comprised of four volumes providing an introduction and tools to address baseline studies, initial assessment, and post disaster assessment (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008)

http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/tc/tce/pdf/Livelihood_Assessment_Toolkit.pdf

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Red Cross / Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness

The Climate Centre supports National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to eventually reduce the loss of life and the damage done to the livelihoods of people affected by the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. The Climate Centre is based in the Netherlands but serves the whole Red Cross / Red Crescent Movement, in particular in developing countries.

http://www.climatecentre.org/index.php?page=1

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Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Guide

The Red Cross/ Red Crescent Climate Guide presents five years of experiences from more than 30 Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies, in particular in developing countries. It relates the experiences of Red Cross/Red Crescent staff and volunteers all around the world trying to understand and address the risks of climate change (Red Cross/Red Crescent, November 2007).

http://www.climatecentre.org/downloads/File/reports/RCRC_climateguide.pdf

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Climate Alarm: Disasters increase as climate change bites

Climatic disasters are increasing as temperatures climb and rainfall intensifies. A rise in small- and medium-scale disasters is a particularly worrying trend. Yet even extreme weather need not bring disasters; it is poverty and powerlessness that make people vulnerable. (Oxfam, November 2007 )

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/climate_change/downloads/bp108_weather_alert.pdf

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Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP)

The Humanitarian Accountability Partnership is the humanitarian sector's first international self-regulatory body. Its work is based on the findings of the Humanitarian Accountability Project, an inter-agency action research initiative that started in 2001. The vision of HAP International is of a humanitarian system championing the rights and the dignity of disaster survivors.

http://www.hapinternational.org

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Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters (HFA)

The World Conference on Disaster Reduction was held from 18 to 22 January 2005 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, and adopted the present Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters. The Conference provided a unique opportunity to promote a strategic and systematic approach to reducing vulnerabilities and risks to hazards. It underscored the need for, and identified ways of, building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters.

http://www.unisdr.org/eng/hfa/hfa.htm

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Media and Natural Disasters

Global Issues, by Anup Shah, October 23, 2005. The second half of 2005 alone seems to have witnessed a number of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, ferocious hurricanes, mudslides, floods, droughts, forest fires, failing crops, and more. Yet, we have had intense media coverage of some of these, but weaker or almost no reporting of others. Why is that? While there are legitimate and practical constraints at times, when news outlets broadcast or print their "world news" segments, it seems the global stories selected are often based on local drivers rather than a drive for truly global coverage.

http://www.globalissues.org/envissues/disasters/media.asp

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IFRC World Disasters Report 2005

The report calls on agencies to focus less on gathering information for their own needs and more on exchanging information with the people they seek to support. The World Disasters Report 2005 features: Data or dialogue? The role of information in disasters. Hurricane early warning in the Caribbean. Locusts in West Africa: early warning, late response. Information black hole in Aceh. Sharing information for tsunami recovery in South Asia. Humanitarian media coverage in the digital age. Radio in Afghanistan: challenging perceptions, changing behaviour. Disaster data: key databases, trends and statistics. Plus: photos, tables, maps, graphics, Red Cross Red Crescent contacts and index.

http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2005/index.asp

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Humanitarian Action Report 2005 [PDF]

The generosity and solidarity expressed for the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami has been extraordinary. People of all nations and from all walks of life have opened their hearts and given support and assistance as we have never seen before. UNICEF's annual Humanitarian Action Report highlights the urgent needs of 33 other countries. The Report describes the situation of children and women in each of the countries and regions, key actions and achievements during the previous year, and planned humanitarian action during 2005, including the funds required, to safeguard and protect the rights of children and women. The response to the tsunami crisis is a clear statement of what humanity can achieve when the world comes together. We are appealing to the same generosity for 33 countries included in the Humanitarian Action Report.

http://www.unicef.org/emerg/HAR.html

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Surf-Aid International

Surf-Aid International's mission is to significantly improve the health of the Mentawai people and to encourage and coordinate the support of the global surfing community.

http://www.surfaidinternational.org/site/pp.asp?c=ekLPK4MOIsG&b=275154

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EM-DAT : the OFDA/CRED International Disasters Data Base

Since 1988 the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has been maintaining an Emergency Events Database - EM-DAT. EM-DAT was created with the initial support of the WHO and the Belgian Government. The main objective of the database is to serve the purposes of humanitarian action at national and international levels. It is an initiative aimed to rationalise decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as providing an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting. For example, it allows on to decide whether floods in a given country are more significant in terms of its human impact than earthquakes or whether a country is more vulnerable than another for computing resources is. EMDAT contains essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 12,800 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present. The database is compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies.

http://www.em-dat.net/

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World Disasters Report 2004

IFRC, 2004. The World Disaster Report 2004 focuses on community resilience. In the hours after sudden disaster strikes, most lives are saved by the courage and resourcefulness of friends and neighbours. During slow-onset crises such as drought, some rural societies have developed extraordinary capacities to cope and bounce back. How can aid organisations strengthen rather than undermine this local resilience? Perceptions of disaster differ between those at risk and those trying to help. Evidence suggests that everyday threats to livelihoods are a greater concern to most poor communities than 'one-off' disasters. Meanwhile, local consensus and cooperation are as important in protecting communities as concrete walls. The report argues that a more developmental approach to creating disaster resilience is needed, which puts communities in charge of defining their needs and crafting the right solutions. The World Disasters Report 2004 features: * From risk to resilience - helping communities cope with crisis * Heatwaves: the developed world's hidden disaster * Harnessing local capacities in rural India * Bam sends warning to reduce future earthquake risks * Building community resilience to disaster in the Philippines * AIDS: Communities pulling out of a downward spiral * Surviving in the slums * Disaster data: key trends and statistics

http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2004/

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One Disaster Too Many: Why thousands are dying needlessly each year in preventable disasters (PDF)

A Tearfund briefing for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction 18-22nd January 2005, Kobe, Japan. "Tearfund believes that new thinking and action is urgently required by the international community. Thousands of lives could be saved each year in developing countries and millions of pounds made to go further, if more emphasis was placed by governments, local authorities and relief and development agencies on helping vulnerable communities reduce disaster risks."

http://www.tearfund.org/webdocs/Website/Campaigning/Policy%20and%20research/BDS%20Kobe%20Jan%202005.pdf

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Myths and realities in disaster situations

The World Health Organisation dispels a number of commonly held myths about disater situations.

http://www.who.int/hac/techguidance/ems/myths/en/

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OCHA Central Register

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has established a Central Register of Disaster Management Capacities (Central Register) as an operational tool to support, in conjunction with other measures, the United Nations system and the international community as a whole in their efforts to ensure expeditious delivery of the required humanitarian emergency assistance.

http://www.reliefweb.int/cr/

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ECHOES: A Monthly Posting of the Community of Disaster Practitioners in South-East Asia

ECHOES is produced by the Partnerships for Disaster Reduction-Southeast Asia (PDR-SEA 2) Project of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) in cooperation with the community of disaster practitioners and partners in the region.

http://www.adpc.net/pdr-sea/mp/echoes.html

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DisasterInfo

DisasterInfo is the front page to a collection of mirror sites and/or direct access to web sites of many disaster organizations, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean. All web sites are hosted in their original language.

http://www.disaster-info.net/

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Health Library for Disasters (HeLiD)

"The library was developed as a result of a consultation and exchange process between the emergency and disaster programs of World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), with the participation of all WHO technical departments as well as other UN agencies, such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR); ICRC; the SPHERE Project; non-governmental organizations such as OXFAM; and national organizations, such as the National Emergency Commission of Costa Rica, and WHO collaborating centers such as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC-Atlanta), the Center for Research in the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED-Bruxelles) and academic institutions like Tulane University." - From the Certi Program

http://www.helid.desastres.net

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Strengthening Disaster Information Management in Africa (DIMA)

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) in conjunction with the Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC). Strengthening Disaster Information Management in Africa (DIMA), seeks to expose the interface of policy, poverty and information access in the management and reduction of disasters. The harmonization of national and regional initiatives, and inter-sectoral and institutional responses to disaster management is a key factor in mitigating the effects on people and economies.

http://www.sardc.net/imercsa/dima/index.htm

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ECOSOC: Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations

Draft resolution submitted by the Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council, Mr. Valery P. Kuchinsky (Ukraine), on the basis of informal consultations. Date: 16 Jul 2003.

http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/UNID/5F13A63011E3A064C1256D6A0026B5D7

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World Disasters Report 2003

World Disaster Report 2003 focuses on ethics in aid. The 'war on terror' is changing the landscape in which humanitarian organizations operate. What ethical dilemmas and moral trade-offs do humanitarians face in an increasingly politicized environment? Is aid really reaching those in greatest need? Do we even know where humanitarian needs are greatest? What are the key principles to help to guide aid programming in the field? Soldiers and commercial contractors now play a major part in disaster relief and recovery. How should humanitarian organizations deal with this new reality? This year's report features: * challenges Humanitarian ethics in disaster and war * Building capacity in disaster- the ethical dimensions * Famine stalks southern Africa * Afghanistan - power politics or ethical principles? * Forced migration - forgotten disaster? * Assessing the impact of humanitarian aid * Measuring disasters: challenges, opportunities and ethics * Disaster and refugee data * Red Cross Red Crescent contacts

http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2003/

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Use of modern technology for disaster management in Asia-Pacific focus of UN meeting

UN News Service, 11 November - Harnessing modern technology and increasing regional cooperation in disaster preparedness could save lives and help prevent some of the billions of dollars in property damage each year across Asian and the Pacific, United Nations officials stressed today at a meeting in Bangkok. "Many lives could be saved and tragedy mitigated, if effective disaster management measures are undertaken," Kim Hak-Su, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), said in an opening address to the UN Regional Workshop on the Use of Space Technology for Disaster Management.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=5310&Cr=natural&Cr1=disaster

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Pan American Health Organisation: Disasters and Humanitarian Assistance

Natural hazards, and the disasters they commonly become, are an integral part of the history of Latin America and the Caribbean. In 1976, the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean asked PAHO to create this technical program to help the health sector to develop a disaster preparedness, response and mitigation program. Excellent site for disaster information in the Americas.

http://www.paho.org/disasters/

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ReliefWeb's MapCentre

The ReliefWeb interactive MapCentre provides an excellent resource for maps covering a variety of subjects, areas, countries and events.

http://www.reliefweb.int/w/map.nsf/home

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Disasters in Asia and the Pacific: an Overview

Informative article with statistics and tables on hazards and disasters in the Asia Pacific region.

http://www.adpc.net/infores/adpc-documents/Disastersinasia.pdf

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ReliefWeb

A project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), ReliefWeb has an excellent array of resources including: a searchable database of over 150,000 UN documents, policy studies and analyses; more than 1600 maps available in a searchable Mapcentre database; more than 20 million documents served on 20 complex emergencies and 1100 natural disasters, from 700 information sources; and a background section with more than 7000 geographical and substantive links. ReliefWeb also provides coverage of the latest events and breaking news, and a section for humanitarian emergencies.

http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf

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World Disasters Report 2000

The World Disasters Report 2000 studies public health in disasters, the legacy of Chernobyl, public health concerns in Kosovo and DPR Korea, AIDS in Africa, the case for an international disaster response law and the quantity of aid. Plus the comprehensive disasters database and Red Cross/Red Crescent listings. Fully illustrated with maps and index. This site provides selected extracts from each chapter, a review and details on how to order this publication.

http://www.ifrc.org/PUBLICAT/wdr2000/

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World Disasters Report 2002

Does development expose more people to disasters? What is the cost of failing to prepare? The tenth edition of the WDR argues that risk reduction is an essential condition for sustainable development. It examines preparedness and mitigation initiatives from disaster-prone countries across the globe. And it discusses who should take responsibility for protecting vulnerable populations from disaster, and how. The WDR 2002 features: challenges and opportunities facing risk reduction; success stories in disaster preparedness from Mozambique and Latin America; mitigating effects of global warming in Pacific island states; earthquake risk in south-eastern Europe; a methodology to assess vulnerabilities and capacities; humanitarian accountability; latest disaster and refugee data; full-colour wall map of the most disaster-affected nations; Red Cross Red Crescent contacts. This IFRC site provides summaries for each chapter, a photo gallery, and details on how to order this publication.

http://www.ifrc.org/PUBLICAT/wdr2002/index.asp

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Radix - Radical Interpretations of Disaster

RADIX is meant as a home for discussion, working papers, opinion pieces, resources, links that can help to develop radical interpretations of and radical solutions (see resources for low cost rural rebuilding) for ALL disasters in ALL parts of planet earth. By radical we mean fundamental or concerning root causes (hence the Latin, radix). This web home is non-sectarian. We welcome any material that proposes to deal with fundamental issues such as human rights, respect for diversity, translation of available knowledge into action, the links among disasters, economic development, and politics. We are non-sectarian, but by no means apolitical. One of the fundamental aims of this web site is to put together into the same (cyber)space, groups that have not shared enough with each other in the past: scientists, human rights activists, development workers, government officials, business executives, environmentalists, media, popular culture workers.

http://www.anglia.ac.uk/geography/radix/index.html

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Poverty And Poor Preparation Increase Toll From Natural Disasters

From Trygve Olfarnes, UNDP. New York, 14 October 1998 Extreme poverty and the failure of government authorities to adequately prepare for natural disasters costs nations dearly in loss of life and livelihoods in the past month.

http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/1e02c0ce7c3f3b69c12566a4005e2be0?OpenDocument

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The Disaster News Network: E-mail lists

The Disaster News Network offers several free and paid subscription email lists for its viewers.

http://www.disasternews.net/emailnews.php

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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organization, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions. View the latest news and reports on disaster situations.

http://www.ifrc.org/index.asp

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Natural Disaster Management India

The Natural Disaster Management Division, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India. Contains current news, recent disasters, and information on disaster management in India.

http://www.ndmindia.nic.in/

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The Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance

The Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance takes as its mission to support the prevention and mitigation of humanitarian emergencies through collaboration and civil-military cooperation. It functions as a resource for information, facilitation, consultation, and research in areas related to humanitarian assistance, disaster relief and peace operations, specifically as they involve civil-military cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.

http://www.coe-dmha.org/

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HUMAN ACTIONS WORSEN NATURAL DISASTERS pop

More people worldwide are now displaced by natural disasters than by conflict. In the 1990s, natural catastrophes like hurricanes, floods, and fires affected more than two billion people and caused in excess of $608 billion in economic losses worldwide - a loss greater than during the previous four decades combined. But more and more of the devastation wrought by such natural disasters is "unnatural" in origin, caused by ecologically destructive practices and an increasing number of people living in harm's way, finds a new study by the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington D.C. - based environmental research organization. News Release Tuesday, 18 October 2001.

http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/011018.html

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Global Disaster Watch

Global Disaster Watch provides information on current worldwide natural disasters. This includes warnings and updates for: drought, earthquakes, flooding, hurricanes, landslides, meteor showers, severe weather warnings, solar flares, tsunamis / tidal waves, volcanoes, wildfires, plus disaster archives and record-breaking disasters.

http://home.att.net/~thehessians/disasterwatch.html

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Extreme Events: Developing a Research Agenda for the 21st Century

Integrated Summary of a workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation (US). The overarching objective of the workshop was to reconsider research on phenomena traditionally defined disparately as "natural hazards," "surprises," and "low probability" in terms of a more unified perspective, focused on society's needs for useful information from scientific research.

http://www.esig.ucar.edu/extremes/summ.html

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New Zealand Hazard Watch

Hazard Watch provides weekly reviews of natural hazard events reported in New Zealand. Hazard Watch is a service of the Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences (GNS).

http://www.gns.cri.nz/hazardwatch/latest/

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Epidemiology of Disasters

by Thomas Songer from University of Pittsburgh. Provides an introduction to disasters and our understanding of disasters from an epidemiologic perspective

http://www.pitt.edu/~epi2170/lecture15/index.htm

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Duryog Nivaran

Duryog Nivaran net is a network of individuals and organizations working in South Asia who are committed to promoting the alternative perspectives on disaster and vulnerability as a basis for disaster mitigation in the region.

http://www.duryognivaran.org/

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The Internet Disaster Information Network

Disaster information site that includesup-to-date information on current disaster situations and an archive on past disasters

http://www.disaster.net/

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Hazards and Risk Virtual Library

Information resource on hazards, risk and disasters

http://www.unex.es/eweb/vl/

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Natural Hazards Center - University of Colorado

A Center providing information on natural hazards and disasters

http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/

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International Disaster Situation Reports

Up-to-date reports on current worldwide disaster events provided by the Centre for International Disaster Information

http://www.cidi.org/disaster/

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Management of Natural and Environmental Disasters in Small Island Developing States

UN report aimed at reducing the impact of natural and environmental disasters on the populations and the economies of small island developing States

http://islands.unep.ch/d96-20a1.htm

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Natural Disaster Reference Database

The Natural Disaster Reference Database is a bibliographic database on research programs and results which relate to the use of satellite remote sensing for disaster mitigation

http://ndrd.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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World Bank Disaster Management Facility

Contains information relating to the World Bank Disaster Management Facility including projects, news and events, presentations and background information.

http://www.worldbank.org/dmf/

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World Disasters Report 2001

The World Disasters Report 2001 examines how governments and aid agencies are working to promote recovery from mega-disasters in India and Bangladesh. Chapters on Venezuela and Viet Nam propose ways to avoid 'reconstructing the risk' following floods and mudslides. The report presents a methodology for social-sector rehabilitation, based on a pilot project in post-conflict Somalia and analyses root causes of hunger in Tajikistan. Further chapters look at the recovery of local economies and the role of volunteers in disasters. For the first time, the regular data chapter includes statistics comparing the effects of natural disasters and conflicts around the world. This site provides summaries for each chapter, a review, and details on how to order.

http://www.ifrc.org/publicat/wdr2001/

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Emergency Management Australia

EMA's primary responsibility for the protection of life and property in Australia as a consequence of natural, technological and human caused disasters rests with state and territory governments.

http://www.ema.gov.au/

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The UNHCR eCentre

The webite provides information on the UNHCR eCentre, which is the Regional Centre for Emergency Training in International Humanitarian Response for the Asia-Pacific region. The site provides key technical information for relief workers in the field of preparedness and response to refugee emergencies.

http://www.the-ecentre.net/

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Virtual Disaster Library

This Library contains more than 270 searchable disaster publications.

http://nzdl.sadl.uleth.ca/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=paho

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