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Good practices in multi-hazard early warning systems...................... 95

Maryam Golnaraghi, Chief, Disaster Risk Reduction Programme, James

Douris, Consultant and Charles Baubion, junior professional officer, DRR

Division, World Meteorological Organization

Strategy and Alliance for Urban Disaster Risk Reduction ................. 98

Prof. Yasuo Tanaka, Director, Research Center for Urban Safety &

Security, Kobe University

Strengthening Australia’s multiagency approach to disaster

management .................................................................................101

Stacey Greene, Manager, Disaster Management, Asia-Pacific Civil-Military

Centre of Excellence, Australia

Reducing disaster risks through successful partnerships ................104

Natalie Dale, Maria Tinelli, Sarah Moss and Katherine Nightingale,

Christian Aid

Building resilience to flood and typhoon hazards in Viet Nam. ......108

Ian Wilderspin, Technical Specialist (Disaster Risk Management), UNDP;

Miguel Coulier, UNV and Dr. Nguyen Huu Phuc, Director of the Disaster

Management Centre, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Viet Nam

Disaster risk reduction and the building of a

disaster-resilient India ...................................................................112

M Shashidhar Reddy, Vice-Chairman, National Disaster Management

Authority, Government of India

Enabling neighbourhoods for disaster response .............................116

Roderick Kühne, Michele Mercier, Björn Schranz, Swiss Agency for

Development and Cooperation

You can’t use information you don’t have:

the role of data in reducing risk .....................................................118

Heather M. Bell and Ray Shirkhodai, Pacific Disaster Center

Sentinel Asia – space and ICT technologies towards disaster risk

reduction across the Asia-Pacific region .........................................123

Kazuya Kaku, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

One horn of the cow: an innovative GIS-based surveillance and early

warning system in pastoral areas of Sahel ......................................127

Frédéric Ham, Thierry Métais, Patricia Hoorelbeke, Erwann Fillol, Amador

Gomez and Philippe Crahay, Action Contre la Faim International

Responding to climate change: community capacity-building for

comprehensive disaster reduction .................................................132

Zhang Xiaoning, Secretariat of the Office of the State Committee and

Yang Peiguo, Department for Science and Technology Standards, National

Disaster Reduction Centre of China

Assessing future risks: climate change adaptation based on the

Hyogo Framework for Action ........................................................135

Dag Olav Høgvold, Senior Adviser at the Norwegian Climate Adaptation

Programme and HFA Focal Point, Directorate for Civil Protection and

Emergency Planning, Norway

Actions for disaster risk reduction through climate change

adaptation in Asia and the Pacific..................................................139

Dugkeun Park, Senior Analyst, National Emergency Management Agency,

Republic of Korea

Karnali, Nepal: the hidden disasters ..............................................142

Christophe Belperron, Country Representative, Mission East, Nepal

Community-based disaster risk reduction in East Java ...................146

Eko Teguh Paripurno and Arif Rianto Budi Nugroho, Disaster Research

and Management, National Development University ‘Veteran’, Yogyakarta,

Indonesia

Sustainable livelihoods: tribal island ecosystems............................149

Professor Janki Andharia, Jamsetji Tata Centre for Disaster Management,

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India

Building a bridge between the insurance industry

and government.............................................................................152

Frans Y. Sahusilawane, President Director, PT Asuransi MAIPARK

Indonesia

Reducing disaster risk through microinsurance: new evidence from

communities in South Asia ...........................................................155

Mihir R. Bhatt, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, and Lawrence Hall

Community managed disaster risk reduction

programmes of Caritas India .........................................................158

Sunil T. Mammen, Caritas India

Including people in risk governance for disasters

and climate change .......................................................................162

Duryog Nivaran, South Asia. Contributors: Ramona Miranda, Buddika

Hapuarachchi and Vishaka Hidellage, Practical Action; Mihir Bhatt, All India

Disaster Management Institute; Abdul Shakoor Sindhi, Rural Development

Policy Institute, Pakistan; and Louise Platt, Independent Researcher

Notes and References.....................................................................166