International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
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Recent Publications
  Minimum Standards  

Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies. INEE
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  Hospital Safety  

Hospital Safety Index Evaluation Form
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Reducing disaster risks through science: issues and actions
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Making disaster risk reduction gender-sensitive: policy and practical guidelines
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Disaster risk reduction in the United Nations 2009
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Adaptation to climate change: linking disaster risk reduction and insurance
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Technical Guide for implementation of a Regional Information System Applied to Agricultural Risk in the Andean Region.
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Building Regional and Global Partnerships. UNISDR
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Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction
http://gfdrr.org/docs/Guidance_Notes_Safe_Schools.pdf
     
   
Mainstreaming Environment and Climate Change in the Implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategies.
World Bank. 2009

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Global Climate Change. Impacts in the United States. U.S. Global Research Program
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Human Impact Report. A comprehensive report documenting the global impact of climate change on human society today. Global Humanitarian Forum. 2009.

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Climate Change and Water.
IPCC. 2009 (in Spanish only)

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2009 Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction:
risk and poverty in a changing climate
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From words into action. A guide for the implementation of the Hyogo
Framework for Action
http://www.eird.org/cd/de-las-palabras-a-la-accion/
     
   
Tools for mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into development Provention. 2009.

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International Law and Standards Applicable in Natural Disaster Situations. IDLO 2009.

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  The Humanitarian Costs Of Climate Change  

The Humanitarian Costs Of Climate Change. Feinstein International Center. 2008

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  Natural Disaster Awareness Tool Catalogue. –The Caribbean. French Red Cross.  

Natural Disaster Awareness Tool Catalogue. –The Caribbean. French Red Cross. (Online version only)

http://pirac.croix-rouge.fr/index.php?lang=en

     
  In the Face of Disaster  

In the Face of Disaster. Children and Climate Change. Save the Children.

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  Preparativos  

Disaster Preparedness for Effective Response: Guidance and Indicator Package for Implementing Priority Five of the Hyogo Framework

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  Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction  

Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction. UNISDR

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Safe Schools in Safe Territories

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  Linking Disaster Risk Reduction and Poverty Reduction - 2008  

The WHO-WPRO 'Hospitals should be safe from disasters' assessment manual.

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  Linking Disaster Risk Reduction and Poverty Reduction - 2008  

Linking Disaster Risk Reduction and Poverty Reduction - 2008

Good Practices and Lessons Learned A Publication of the Global Network of NGOs for Disaster Risk Reduction
http://www.unisdr.org/linking_ddr_poverty_reduction

     
  Towards National Resilience -2008  

Towards National Resilience -2008

Good practices of National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction
http://www.unisdr.org/towards_national_resilience

     
  logos CIIFEN  

Acting with common purpose

http://preventionweb.net/english/professional/publications/v.php?id=1464

     
  logos CIIFEN  

We are pleased to share with you a brief compendium of the first five years of CIIFEN.

This has been relatively short period but full of experiences, efforts and alliances to build capacities, create products and networks on applications and forecast services in Latin America.
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“Disaster Risk Management Today: Global Context, Local Tools” is now available in print, web and CD versions. The publication provides state-of-the-art information on a series of themes in the area of disaster risk reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book is part of a collaborative framework of activities on local management and risk and vulnerability reduction, fostered by the International Development Research Centre of Canada (IDRC) and the UN/ISDR in this region. Access the online version in
http://www.eird.org/gestion-del-riesgo/index.html
(in Spanish only)

     
 
 
     
 
 
Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction:
Good Practices and lessons Learned from Experiences in the Asia-Pacific Region 2008
     
 
 

Towards National Resilience
Good practices of National Platforms
http://www.unisdr.org/towards_national_resilience

     
 
 


Annual Report 2007
The secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
http://www.unisdr.org/annualreport-2007

     
 
 

Disaster Risk Reduction: 20 Examples of good practice from Central Asia.
Author: European Commission. Humanitarian Aid; UN/ISDR
http://www.crid.or.cr/digitalizacion/pdf/eng/doc16966/doc16966.htm

     
   

Climate Change as a Security Risk
http://www.wbgu.de/wbgu_jg2007_engl.pdf

     
   
Integrating disaster risk reduction into the fight against poverty
Annual Report 2007
     
   
Indicators of Progress
Indicators of Progress: Guidance on Measuring the Reduction of Disaster Risks and the Implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action.
Document (includes Annexes 1-5)
CD-Room (includes References, Annexes 6-11)
     
   

ISDR-Biblio 3 Health, Disasters and Risk
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Building Resilience to Natural Disasters: A Framework for Private Sector Engagement.
http://www.eird.org/publicaciones/building-resilience.pdf
     
   

The 'Disaster Risk Reduction Global Review 2007

     
   

Science, Knowledge Sharing and Planning for Megacities
Disaster Risk Reduction
http://www.crid.or.cr/crid/PDF/doc16736.pdf

     
   

Gender Perspective: Working Together for Disaster Risk Reduction
Good Practices and Lessons Learned
http://www.unisdr.org/eng/about_isdr/isdr-publications/09-gender-good-practices/gender-good-practices.pdf

Links

Words into Action

Guidelines for National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction

Living with Risk

Little Green Disasters Book. Plan Int´l

Science, Knowledge Sharing and
Planning for Megacities
Disaster Risk Reduction

New Caribbean Basin Wind Hazards Maps