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Neighbourhood Disaster Volunteers:
the crucial role of local residents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
Barbara Dätwyler Scheuer, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Flood disaster recovery in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Li Maosong, Song Jiqing, Bai Wenbo, Wu Yongfeng, Liu Buchun, Wang
Chunyan and Wang Xiufen, Laboratory of Agro-Natural Disaster
Reduction, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in
Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of
Agro-Environment & Climate Change, Ministry of Agriculture
Relief to risk reduction – a paradigm shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Sanjeev K. Bhanja and Ramesh Babu, EFICOR
From grassroots to global: people-centred disaster risk reduction . .83
Margaret Arnold, Bruno Haghebaert and Ben Wisner, ProVention Consortium
Toe the line for behavioural change:
a capacity development system for disaster risk management . . . . .86
Dr Rakesh Dubey, Disaster Management Institute, Bhopal; Dr Christina
Kamlage, InWEnt – Capacity Building International, Berlin; Dr Jürgen
Bischoff, Director, ASEM; Florian Bemmerlein-Lux, ifanos concept &
planning, Nuremberg and Dr Sandhya Chatterji, ifanos concept India
The centrality of risk management in Concern Worldwide’s
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Peter Crichton, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator and William Devas,
Disaster Risk Reduction Advisor – Emergency Unit, Dublin
Education for Sustainable Development as a platform for disaster
preparedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
Sheldon Shaeffer and Derek Elias, UNESCO
Peacetime strategies for disaster risk mitigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
Hassan Ahmad, Alicia Wong and S.R. Shiever, Mercy Relief, Singapore
Tuvalu Red Cross: joining forces to tackle climate
change in the Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Rebecca McNaught, International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies & the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre
Reporting IBC – a Turkish NGO’s response to the
Pakistan earthquake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
Ana Oprisan, International Operations Manager, International Blue
Crescent
The changing face of disaster management in South Africa . . . . . .109
Lance Williams, National Disaster Management Centre, South Africa;
Pat Adams, President, DMISA
Cultural heritage and seismic risk:
some European experiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113
Francesc Pla, European and Mediterranean Major Hazards Agreement,
Council of Europe
Multidimensional post-earthquake reconstruction:
the Chakama Valley in Pakistan-administered Kashmir
and the Uri Block in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir . . .116
Najmi Kanji, Aga Khan Development Network
Iran earthquake risk reduction strategy and the International
Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES) . . . . .122
Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany, Distinguished Professor, Founder and Past
President, IIEES
RICS: building resilience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
Karen Gardham, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, UK
Environmental management measures for tsunami-affected
areas of Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu, India:
reconstruction, resettlement and future community resilience . . . .129
Dr Meenakshi Dhote, Department of Environmental Planning, School of
Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India
Auditing school safety in India: lessons for Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132
Vishal Pathak and Sanchit Oza, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute
How the Global Earth Observation System of Systems
can support disaster managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135
José Achache and Veronica Grasso, Group on Earth Observations
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