Friday, April 04, 2008

UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

The United Nations have a useful web page about their "International Strategy for Disaster Reduction". The aim is to building resilient communities which can cope with disaster, rather than having to wait for external assistance. They have a lot of useful information, but hard to find behind an overly busy web site design. This is unfortunate, as good web design is one of the was to deal with disaster.

Some useful looking
ISDR publications:

World Conference on Disaster Reduction
Proceedings of the Conference
Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters
Living with Risk:
A global review of disaster reduction initiatives
2004 version
On-line
Know Risk
Publication available at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction
Flyer
www.know-risk.org
Guidelines for Reducing Flood Losses
On-line

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