Urban Planning and Disaster Risk Reduction
A guide to measuring urban risk resilience
... seismic risk assessment of Medellín, Colombia, was conducted using a building by building resolution level database with more than 240,000 ...identified and vulnerability functions were developed to ...
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Local disaster risk reduction: Lessons from the andes
... intensive and exhaustive analysis of the 16 most signifi cant cases and the 4 pilot projects in our last substantive section, we will provide an analysis of more global contextual aspects based on an ...
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Disaster risk management programs for priority countries
... Disaster and Risk Management, and Civil Protection are stated, but discreetly, as priorities in the GPRSF / Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Framework ...“Peace and ...
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From Urbanism to Planning to Urban Project. The pursuit of ‘urbanity’ in Spanish plans and projects
... of planning’ seems to have become consolidated during an economic upswing period: the great boom of the 1950s and 1960s that lasted until the oil crisis of ...spectacular urban growth postwar ...
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Asset pricing under habit formation and disaster risk
... Campbell and Cochrane (1999) habit formation model with the disaster risk from Barro ...Campbell and Cochrane (1999): (i) to improve the equity premium estimation, and (ii) to obtain a ...
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Disaster Mitigation and Prevention Policies for Sustaintable Development
... infrastructure and productive investments in urban areas, frequently in locations exposed per se to a variety of natural ...urbanization and migratory ...employment and income, occupational ...
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Review of the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Enabling Child-Centred Agency
... to disaster is revealed through Office of Civil Defence statistical records covering the period 1997 to 2007 which show that the total cost of damages brought about by various types of disasters was ...of ...
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Ramsar National Report to COP13 Section 1: Institutional Information - COP13NR Pakistan e
... involvement and support of the Parties in each region are reinforced and developed into effective tools to assist in the full implementation of the ...development and implementation of a Regional ...
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NATURAL DISASTERS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: UNDERSTANDING THE LINKS BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL DISASTERS
... to urban areas or uncultivated ...the urban population of developing countries has tripled to ...More and more populations are forced, through lack of choice, to expand into disaster prone ...
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Urban risk assessments
... identifying and managing risks. If no steps are taken to identify and manage disaster risks and climate change, the resulting losses can be irreversible and have severe implications on ...
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City, urban planning and education. N. 01 (2009)
... city and the university campuses, that would come under physical and environmental protection; and the eastern facade that would include new housing areas, infrastructures and facilities built ...
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A system of indicators for disaster risk management in the Americas
... recovery and as owner of affected goods, when the evaluation was ...tations and costs that must be taken into account as feasible val- ues according to the macroeconomic and financial conditions of ...
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Principles for the planning and management of urban and peri-urban wetlands
... mitigate urban pollution and sedimentation, particularly in improving sanitation within the limits imposed by their capacity to provide these services and without significantly compromising their ...
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Information on disaster risk management
... identify and assess the extent of penetration, cost and efficiency of catastrophic insurance and reinsurance covering economic and social infrastructure and other public and ...
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Towards Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into the Planning Process of Road Construction
... of disaster risks. During detailed design, disaster risk reduction aspects are incorporated into the project if ...surveys and investigations at the feasibility study stage, and ...
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Enhancing capacities in disaster risk reduction in Burkina Faso and Mali
... lost and that there are continued efforts to strengthen national DRR capacities, as Mali and Burkina Faso continue to face recurring threats of severe floods and other natural hazards, which are ...
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Observations on strengthening community participation in disaster risk reduction in disaster law and policy
... enactment and implementation of DRR measures has indeed proven its inadequacy to reach those most affected by disasters and concerns that it may even make affected populations more vulnerable have also been ...
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GLOBAL REPORT REDUCING DISASTER RISK A CHALLENGE FOR DEVELOPMENT, A
... countries and underestimated for ...homeless and prompted the evacuation of almost 200,000 ...calculated risk value, in comparison with countries known to be at risk but where no event took ...
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Cost benefit studies on disaster risk reduction in developing countries
... patterns, and unprecedented de- cline/growth in ...Hallegatte and Przyluski (2010) argue that uncertainties in cost- ing disasters come both from insufficient data and inad- equate ...values ...
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Manual for the implementation of disaster mitigation : executive summary
... But in much more specific terrns effective implernentation will apply with a sharp focus to certain lives that are particularly at risk, and on property that a given com:r:nunity cannot afford under any ...
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