A new guide will help disaster managers in governments to use international tools and services.

The handbook is produced by MIAVITA project team. MIAVITA (Mitigate and Assess risk from Volcanic Impact on Terrain and human Activities) is a 50-months project financed by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, Area “Environment”.

Introducción

La seguridad empieza a nivel individual. Para conseguir seguridad y protección óptimas, los delegados y delegadas así como los miembros del personal deben mantener cierto nivel de concienciación en materia de seguridad.

Century Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century provides forward-looking operational assistance to policy makers and technical specialists in the rapidly expanding cities and towns of the developing world on how best to manage the risk of floods. It takes a strategic approach, in which appropriate risk management measures are assessed, selected and integrated in a process that both informs and involves the full range of stakeholders.

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The discussions in this booklet aim to address the complexity of risk in the Arab region, and present some tools which can be used by local governments, civil society and other institutions working in the field of environment and disaster risk reduction. In the Arab region the effects of human behavior on the environment has caused a growing concern since the early 1980s and from the end of the same decade the question of climate change has gradually received more attention.

This training manual is intended to assist those working on emergency response and disaster risk management. It aims to provide an overview of the major land issues that may arise following a natural hazard, which need to be considered and included in the decision-making processes associated with response, recovery and rehabilitation. These issues also should be considered in reconstruction and development projects to improve tenure security for the more vulnerable as part of a disaster mitigation process.

1 WELCOME Welcome to the Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit (GRRT). Through this toolkit and training program, participants will learn about the intersection of the environment and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.

Actively addressing environmental issues will help to protect people and communities in the long-term. We hope that the solutions, strategies, tools, and techniques presented in this toolkit will help you and others respond to the global challenges of sustainable recovery and reconstruction.

Definitions of some of the vocabulary used in the study of tsunamis.

1 CLASSIFICATION

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TSUNAMI PHENOMENA