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transition and industrialised countries. Each year some 55,000 people
participate in our measures.
Mitigating Madhubani’s menace
1. National Disaster Management of India, Ministry of Home Affairs – SITREP 20
Dt. 6.8.2004.
2. The DFID funding for this project was through Tearfund UK – for details see
3.
4. Census of India 2001.
5. Kennedy Dhanabalan is Director, Development Education and Capacity
Building (DE&CB), and Esther Ghosh is an Officer, Disaster Management
Unit with the Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief
(EFICOR), New Delhi.
The tsunami hazard map – its role in tsunami preparedness for individuals
and communities
1. These techniques were introduced in detail in Know Risk, UN/ISDR 2005.
2. The images prepared for the Taro area are accessible at
The healing community: the importance of community-based interventions
1. Ajdukovic, 2006.
2. The free phone number is 0800-tsunami.
The Impact website is at
3. Ajdukovic, 2006.
The development of bamboo houses in earthquake prone rural areas,
Yunnan, China
1. The author gratefully acknowledges the grant awarded by the ProVention
Consortium to fund this research, and the support of the Asian Disaster
Preparedness Center. Appreciation is also given to the mentor of this project,
Dr Zhenyao Wang, Director General of the National Disaster Reduction
Center of China.
Risk resilient communities: the Aga Khan Development Network
in northern Pakistan
1. Five of the world’s 14 peaks over 8,000 metres high lie in the region.
Post-disaster assessment of building damage
1. According to Census of India, 2001, as quoted
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2. ADPC & Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority; Damage Assessment
Methodology, as proposed to the Government of Gujarat under Study on
Development Methodology for Damage and Loss Assessment; GEERP, 2005.
Rethinking post-disaster reconstruction: rural and urban areas of Turkey
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and capacity – the case of earthquake-prone rural communities in India and
Nepal, Dr.ing thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
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challenges in Post-earthquake rehabilitation for sustainable eco-development
in South Asia,’ proceedings from I-Rec conference Improving post-disaster
reconstruction in developing countries, University of Montreal, Montreal,
Canada from 23-25 May 2002.
2. Ibid.
3. Anderson, M. and Woodrow, P. (1989). Rising from the ashes: development
strategies in times of disaster. Paris: UNESCO Blaikie.
4. Quarantelli, E.L. (ed.) (1998). What is a disaster? Perspectives on the question ,
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9. Quarantelli, E.L. (ed.), What is a disaster? perspectives on the question, Second
Edition, Xlibris. Kaplan, A. (1999). The development of capacity. Geneva: NGLS
Development Dossier.
10. Anderson, M. and Woodrow, P. (1989). Op. cit.
11. P. Cannon, T. Davis, I. And Wisner, B. (1997). Op. cit.
A new understanding and approach to disaster management in Turkey
1.
2. The Emergency Management Agency of Turkey was changed to the Turkey
Emergency Management General Directorate (TEMAD) with decree no: 600
and issued in the official Gazette No: 24079, dated 14 June 14 2000.
3.
4. Dr Murat Balamir, Comprehensive regeneration in Zeytinburnu by means of
community partnerships, Prepared for the UK-Turkey Urban Regeneration
Symposium, Ankara, 22 March 2005:
Istanbul/urban_regeneration_Zeytinburnu_Istanbul.pdf
5. See and
6. Details of the Neighbour Disaster Support Project can be found at
7. Turkey: World Bank supports Istanbul Seismic Risk Mitigation and Emergency
Preparedness:
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8. World Bank Report 2003.
More to lose: Reducing family vulnerability to flood and storm
damage in central Vietnam 1989-2006
1. Where a family cannot satisfy the bare necessities of life. Vietnam living
standards survey 1997-1998, Hanoi 1999, Vietnam General Statistics Office.
2. Statistics from OFDA/CRED International Disaster database, Belgium.
3. Reports provided by individual communes.
4. See, for example, the Central Provinces Initiative for Natural Disaster
Mitigation in Central Vietnam, Second national strategy and action plan for
disaster mitigation and management in Vietnam, March 2002.
5. In 2006, Vietnam celebrates the 60th anniversary of the creation of
committees for flood and storm control.
6. Development Workshop has been supported by ECHO (Dipecho Programme)
since 2003 and previously by Canadian International Development Aid.
Vulnerability and risk reduction: existing non-engineered buildings in
urban areas of Nepal
1. Anand S. Arya, 12th WCEE Conference 2000, Non-engineered construction in
developing countries: an approach towards earthquake risk reduction.
2. Study on earthquake disaster mitigation in the Kathmandu Valley, JICA, Nepal
Government, 2002.
Earthquake-safer construction: developing a set of standard designs for building
1. The author gratefully acknowledges the financial award given by the
ProVention Consortium to help fund this research.
Are we ready for the next big event? NASA’s strategy for Earth observations and
solutions for society
1. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency (JAXA). TRMM images produced by Hal Pierce and Katrina text
provided by Stephen Lang (Science Systems and Applications, Inc. (SSAI) at
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).
Review of UK space activities in support of disaster reduction: An update
1. The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of active members
of the UK space community.
Effective risk reduction through monitoring of the environment from space
1. Exploitation comparée des images aéroportées et spatiales pour la
caractérisation d’un épisode d’inondation dans le grand delta du Rhône,
Ministère de l’Écologie et du Développement durable, Paris, 2006.
NASA’s plan for sustainable development in response to WSSD goals
and objectives
1. The authors extend their special thanks and gratitude to their NASA
colleagues: Charles Ichoku, Patrick Coronado, David Toll, Molly Brown and
Assaf Anyamba for providing support in the development of this article.
GIS and spatial technologies in disaster management: a case study approach
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