India: Earthquake - Jan 2001 Updates

Shreyasee Das and Shatanjaya Dasgupta This paper examines the impact of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake on age at marriage and other assortative matching outcomes. Using the 2004–05 wave of the India...

In May 2022, the United Nation’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) released a report titled Asia-Pacific Riskscape @ 1.5°C: Subregional Pathways for Adaptation and...

These case studies accompany the Handbook on Recovery Institutions is to inform the design of effective institutional arrangements for disaster recovery. They describe institutional structures, legal...

Executive Summary The case studies in this document are set in different scales and geographies, tackling a wide realm of issues connected to urban housing recovery — locally in Nepal and globally...

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Transformation: Initiatives Towards Resilience Can cutting edge innovations that integrate disaster risk reduction with climate change adaptation transform our views on risk from the standpoint of...

It is time we stop a hazard from becoming a disaster. Local communities have the knowledge and resilience. “Turning the Tide – Good Practices in community based disaster risk reduction” is an attempt...

Content The Guidance Note on Recovery: Private Sector draws from the wider body of knowledge on private sector recovery and from documented experiences of past and present disaster planning and...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS The earthquake that shook Gujarat on January 26, 2001 served as a severe wake-up call. Now, Gujarat has three nodal institutions dedicated solely to disaster preparedness and...

How to make citizens in cities safe? This issue addresses this crucial topic. A risk transfer mechanism like disaster microinsurance helps in transferring the risk of an impending catastrophe from an...

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘Youth Leadership in Long Term Recovery’. Disaster recovery is an important phase of the disaster management cycle as it helps in the evolution of...

Informal settlers are more exposed and vulnerable to displacement and are more likely to be relocated and excluded from the provision of durable housing assistance, finds IDMC report.

A. Purpose of the note The Government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), through its National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), has requested further ADB assistance to summarize...

This compilation presents different cases of post disaster recovery highlighting the role of community. Involvement of community in the overall process of determining what is to be done, how it is to...

BANGKOK, 25 August 2010 (IRIN) - In Asia, the most disaster-prone part of the world, earthquakes are the deadliest natural hazard. Seven of the 10 most earthquake-vulnerable countries in terms of...

DAKAR, 14 juillet 2010 (IRIN) - IRIN se penche sur certaines leçons en matière de santé tirées de quatre importants séismes survenus au cours des 10 dernières années : en Inde (2001), en Chine...

DAKAR, 13 July 2010 (IRIN) - IRIN takes a look at some of the health lessons learned from four large earthquakes in the past decade - India (2001), China (2008), Chile (2010) and Haiti (2010). India ...

BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Chronic conflict, earthquakes, and recurrent seasonal storms, floods, and...

Kathmandu, 8 September 2009: Disasters and emergencies have claimed 750 000 lives in South-East Asia between 1998 and 2009, accounting for 61.6% of all global deaths due to natural disasters. A...

Gareth Price and Mihir Bhatt HPG Working Paper April 2009 1. Introduction This case study is part of the ODI HPG research programme on the role of the affected state in humanitarian action. It aims...