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cent), then taking 50 per cent of that amount (assuming that 50 per cent of all costs were
directly or indirectly related to planting), and finally dividing that amount by the number
of existing hectares.
51 Breaking the waves: Impact analysis of a coastal afforestation and disaster preparedness
programme in Northern Viet Nam, 1994-2010, P. Bolte, F. Barnaby, F. Rahmadana, et al,
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, February 2011. Personal
communications: Patrick Bolte and Dang Van Tao, IFRC, 2011.
52 For example, capacity-building initiatives for those involved in the programme have trained
more than 6,000 commune and ward officials, 10,000 teachers and 325,000 school
children as well as local people.
53 Available from
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55 Da Nang is one of three cities in Viet Nam participating in the Asian Cities Climate Change
Resilience Network (ACCCRN) with support from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Disaster risk reduction and the building of a disaster-resilient India
1 India has a federal system of governance comprising the central, state and district
governments along with a separate layer of elected local governance bodies, referred to as
‘municipalities’ in urban areas and ‘panchayats’ in rural areas.
2 India appoints Finance Commissions at regular intervals to decide on the transfer of
resources from the Centre to the states and to decide on priorities for certain important
focus areas.
You can’t use information you don’t have: the role of data in reducing risk
1 For example, see UNISDR (2009). UNISDR Terminology on Disaster Risk Reduction.
Available from
2 For an example of how imagery and GIS techniques are being used to identify and analyse
informal settlement patterns, see Vicente, M., J. Villarin, G. Galgana, A. Guzman, and J. De
Mesa, The Urban Poverty Morphology Project:RS-GIS Applications for Metro-Manila, Philippines.
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3 For examples, see UNOSAT products created in support of the International Charter,
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asp?id=65.
4 GPS is the most widely used global navigation satellite system (GNSS). GNSS are satellite-
based technologies that enable users to precisely locate the position of a receiver on the
ground. See Bolstad, op. cit. for more information.
5 For a brief overview, see Rambaldi, G., M. McCall, D. Weiner, P. Mbile and P. Kyem
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6 A variety of manuals and resources are available from www.proventionconsortium.
org/?pageid=43.
7 For more information, see ; www.openstreetmap.
org/.
8 Available from
9 For more information, see and
10 Information on natural hazards, exposure (both human and economic) and risk available
in the Global Risk Data Platform are drawn from the results of a study made for the 2009
Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. Users can visualize, download or
use the data live in GIS software at
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Sentinel Asia – space and ICT technologies towards disaster risk reduction across the
Asia-Pacific region
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- Kozawa, H., and Kaku, K. (2007). Sentinel Asia: supporting disaster management in the
Asia-Pacific region. The Full Picture, pp. 174-176. Leicester (UK), Tudor Rose.
Kaku, K. (2008). Sentinel Asia – the next step. Risk Wise, pp. 183-186. Leicester (UK),
Tudor Rose.
- Kaku, K., Ono, A. & Kawai, M. (2010). Sentinel Asia Step 2 – Overview and Evolution
from Step 1. Proceedings of ISPRS Technical Commission VIII Symposium, International Archives
of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Science, Vol. XXXVIII, Part 8,
Kyoto, Japan 2010, pp. 56-61.
- Kaku, K. (2010). Sentinel Asia – Supporting Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific
Region. Proceedings of IAA 50th Anniversary Celebration Symposium on Climate Change / Green
Systems, Nagoya, Japan 2010 (in print).
One horn of the cow: an innovative GIS-based surveillance and early warning system in
pastoral areas of Sahel
The authors:
The positions of the authors within the Action Contre la Faim (ACF) International Network are
as follows:
Frédéric Ham, ACF GIS expert, Dakar
Thierry Métais, ACF Head of Mission, Niger
Patricia Hoorelbeke, ACF Regional Representative for West Africa, Dakar
Erwann Fillol, GIS consultant, Montpellier
Amador Gomez, ACF Technical Director, Madrid
Philippe Crahay, ACF Food and Nutrition Security, Disaster Risk Management and Climate
Change Project Officer, Paris.
Acknowledgements:
ACF would like to thank the Spanish International Cooperation Agency (AECI), the Nabarra
Government (Spain) and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation for their financial support
for this project. All views expressed in this document are those of the authors and do not
necessarily reflect the position of these agencies.
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