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1. Megacities Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Base (EMI)
   Web site featuring a collection of searchable Disaster Risk Management (DRM) City Profiles and Disaster Risk Management Sound Practices as well as a collection of other key references and documents for urban decision makers, city planners, residents and others who can contribute to the reduction of risk to urban society, environment, and economy.
   21-10-2008 to cities, development, disaster, emi, expertise, knowledge, megacities, profiles, research, risk, urban by ian odonnell
2. RADIUS Project-GeoHazards International
   Risk Assessment tools for diagnosis of urban areas against seismic disasters
   14-02-2008 to assessment, disaster, drr, hazard, mitigation, risk, tools, urban by aynurkadi
3. Operational Framework for Mainstreaming DRR (Working Paper No:8)
   Other working papers and reports related to natural hazards, risk management and DRR
   13-02-2008 to disaster, drr, hazard, mainstreaming, risk by aynurkadi
4. ProVention Consortium home page
   04-06-2006 to disaster, gis, maps, provention, risk by test and 1 other
5. Trailers, Vital After Hurricane, Now Pose Own Risks on Gulf (New York Times, March 16 2006
   Article on the risks posed for those living trailers as temporary housing after Hurricane Katrina.
   16-03-2006 to disaster, flooding, housing, hurricane, impact, katrina, northamerica, risk, shelter, us by ian odonnell
6. Developing Open-source Catastrophe Risk Models
   'A white paper based on discussions held at the workshop “Open-source catastrophe risk modeling: how can we do it better?”'
   23-01-2006 to disaster, model, modeling, opensource, risk by ian odonnell
7. “Lessons Learned From the Response to the Indian Ocean” (UN ECOSOC, Jul 14, 2005)
   Transcript of Remarks to UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) regarding recovery efforts in response to the Indian Ocean tsunami by UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery President Bill Clinton.
   22-08-2005 to asia, bill clinton, disaster, economics, ecosoc, india, indonesia, maldives, partnerpublication, preparedness, prevention, rebuilding, reconstruction, recovery, reduction, rehabilitation, risk, srilanka, thailand, tourism, tsunami, un by ian odonnell
8. Disaster Prevention Research Institute - Kyoto University
   The Disaster Prevention Research Institute was established in 1951 and carries out research on a variety of problems related to the prevention and reduction of natural disasters.
   18-08-2005 to asia, disaster, japan, kyoto, kyoto university, partnerorganization, prevention, reduction, research, risk by ian odonnell and 1 other
9. Disaster Mitigation & Vulnerability Atlas Of India
   This site outlines "a paradigm shift from Post-disaster reconstruction & relief to Pre-disaster Pro-active approach".
   18-08-2005 to asia, assessment, disaster, hazard, india, mitigation, policy, preparedness, reduction, risk, risk-reduction, safe-building, vulnerability by ian odonnell
10. Weathering the Storm: Lessons In Risk Reduction From Cuba (Oxfam, Apr 2004)
    This report "presents a comprehensive overview of the Cuban model of risk reduction in disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery, and explores what may be adapted from this model in other countries".
    15-08-2005 to centralamerica, cuba, disaster, mitigation, oxfam, partnerpublication, preparedness, recovery, reduction, response, risk, southamerica by ian odonnell

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