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Title: Lessons for a Safer Future: Drawing on the experience of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster
Serial number: UN/ISDR-01-2007-Geneva
Office: PPEW
URL: www.unisdr.org/lesson-for-a-safer-future
   
 
Title: Words Into Action: A Guide for Implementing the Hyogo Framework
Serial number: UN/ISDR-02-2007-Geneva
Office: Geneva
URL: www.unisdr.org/words-into-action
   
 
Title: Guidelines for National Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction
Serial number: UN/ISDR-03-2007-Geneva
Office: Geneva
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Title: United Nations Documents Related to Disaster Reduction
Volume 3
2003-2005
Serial number: UN/ISDR-04-2007-Geneva
Office: Geneva
URL: www.unisdr.org/un-docs-dr-vol3
   
 
Title: Evaluation and Strengthening of Early Warning Systems in Countries Affected by the 26 December 2004 Tsunami
An initiative supported through the UN Flash Appeal for Indian Ocean Earthquake – Tsunami 2005
Serial number: UN/ISDR-05-2007-Bonn
Office: Bonn - Germany
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Title: Building Disaster Resilient Communities
Good Practices and Lessons Learned
2007
Serial number: UN/ISDR-06-2007-Geneva
Office: Geneva
URL: www.unisdr.org/ngos-good-practices
   
 
Title: Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters
Serial number: UN/ISDR-07-2007-Geneva
Office: Geneva
URL: www.unisdr.org/hfa-eng
   
 
 
  Title: Bibliothèque – prévention et aléas naturels
Centre de ressources de la SIPC

Mars 2007
Serial number: UN/ISDR-08-2007-Geneva
Office: Geneva
URL: www.unisdr.org/eng/library/field-lib/catalogue-fr/Madagascar.pdf
   
 
Title: Gender Perspective: Working Together for Disaster Risk Reduction
Good Practices and Lessons Learned
Serial number: UN/ISDR-09-2007-Geneva
Office: Geneva
URL: www.unisdr.org/gender-good-practices
   
 
Title: ISDR-Biblio 2: Drought, Desertification and Water Scarcity
Serial number:  
Office: Geneva
URL: www.unisdr.org/eng/library/biblio/isdr-biblio-2-drought-2007.pdf
   
 
Title: Drought Risk Reduction Framework and Practices:
Contributing to the Implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
Serial number: UN/ISDR-10-2007-Geneva
Office: Geneva
URL: www.unisdr.org/drought-risk-reduction
   
 
Title: Towards a Culture of Prevention: Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School
Good Practices and Lessons Learned
2007
Serial number: UN/ISDR-11-2007-Geneva
Office: Geneva
Summary This publication is part of ongoing efforts made under the theme “Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School”, a theme selected for the World Disaster Reduction Campaign 2006-2007 coordinated by the UN/ISDR secretariat in cooperation with the UNESCO.
   
 
cover Title: ISDR-Biblio 3
Health and disaster risk
Serial number: UN/ISDR-12-2008-Geneva
Office:  
Summary Supports the theme of the 2008-2009 World Disaster Reduction Campaign: Hospitals Safe from Disasters,  Reduce Risk, Protect Health Facilities, Save Lives. The biblio contains literature on health and disaster risk; disaster and emergency management; health facilities and services; environmental impact on health; climate change effects on health; mental health; mitigation and preparedness; public health; water and sanitation; and gender and health.
 
Title: South Eastern Europe Disaster Risk Mitigation and Adaptation Initiative
Risk Assessment for South Eastern Europe
Desk Study Review
Serial number: UN/ISDR-13-2007-Geneva
Office: Europe
Summary South Eastern Europe
Disaster Risk Mitigation and Adaptation Initiative
This report analyses disaster risks for South Eastern Europe at both the country and sub-regional levels, emphasizing transboundary disaster risks and their effects. Risk assessments for all the member countries have been prepared, and country-level and regional issues and potential areas of cooperation are addressed. The report was developed by the South Eastern Europe Disaster Risk Mitigation and Adaptation Initiative (SEEDRMAI), an initiative of the World Bank and UN/ISDR secretariat.
   
 
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Mitigating the Adverse Financial Effects of Natural
Hazards on the Economies of South Eastern Europe

A Study of Disaster Risk Financing Options
South Eastern Europe Disaster Risk Mitigation and Adaptation Programme

Serial number: UN/ISDR-14-2008-Geneva
Office: Europe
Summary Mitigating the Adverse Financial Effects of Natural Hazards on the Economies of South Eastern Europe: A Study of Disaster Risk Financing Options contains a study and policy recommendations on financing for disaster losses, reconstruction and recovery, and disaster risk transfer (disaster insurance). The report was developed within the South Eastern Europe Disaster Risk Mitigation and Adaptation Programme (SEEDRMAP), an initiative of the World Bank and UN/ISDR secretariat.
 
cover Title:

Indicators of Progress:
Guidance on Measuring the Reduction of Disaster Risks and the Implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action

  Annexes
Serial number: UN/ISDR-15-2008-Geneva
Office: Geneva
Summary Indicators of Progress: Guidance on Measuring the Reduction of Disaster Risks and the Implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action helps set priorities for implementing disaster risk reduction while regularly monitoring and reviewing achievements against clear indicators. It can be used by national authorities, civil society and community organizations, regional inter-governmental institutions, technical bodies, and international and donor communities.
 
Cover Title:

South Eastern Europe
Disaster Risk Mitigation and Adaptation Programme

The World Bank, Sustainable Development Department Europe and Central Asia Region, and UN/ISDR secretariat Europe
March 2008

Serial number: UN/ISDR-16-2008-Geneva
Office: Europe
Summary South Eastern Europe: Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Programme outlines a disaster risk reduction and adaptation framework for South Eastern Europe, after an analysis of the region's vulnerability to climate change, and recommendations on disaster risk financing, emergency preparedness and management, hydrometeorology, and disaster risk reduction and adaptation.
 
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