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When disasters and conflicts collide: improving links between disaster resilience and conflict prevention
This report focuses on the links between conditions of vulnerability and risks associated with the nexus of natural disasters, conflict and fragility. It also recognises that any given context will be mired by an even more complex array of intersecting risks. For example, in 2011, drought, and food and political insecurity in East Africa contributed to a full-scale humanitarian crisis. A combination of natural hazards, conflict and fragility provided a recipe for human suffering.
When disasters and conflicts collide: improving links between disaster resilience and conflict prevention
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Available online: http://www.odi.org.uk/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-fil [...]
Katie Harris ; David Keen ; Tom Mitchell ; Overseas Development Institute (United Kingdom)
Published by: ODI ; 2013This report focuses on the links between conditions of vulnerability and risks associated with the nexus of natural disasters, conflict and fragility. It also recognises that any given context will be mired by an even more complex array of intersecting risks. For example, in 2011, drought, and food and political insecurity in East Africa contributed to a full-scale humanitarian crisis. A combination of natural hazards, conflict and fragility provided a recipe for human suffering.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Natural hazards ; Drought ; Flood ; Region I - Africa ; Afghanistan ; Ethiopia ; Kenya ; Nepal ; Somalia ; Uganda
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Tackling exposure: placing disaster risk management at the heart of national economic and fiscal policy
As a follow-up to a first paper A preliminary analysis of flood and storm disaster data in Viet Nam, this Quang Binh case study provides a more in-depth disaster profile of one particular province in Viet Nam, including specific temporal and spatial distribution patterns while using district aggregated data. It also looks deeper into the relationship between disasters and poverty through analysis of various indicators: number of deaths, impact on housing and agricultural produce, poverty rate and the percentage of poor households.
The first part of this paper examines the disas ...
Tackling exposure: placing disaster risk management at the heart of national economic and fiscal policy
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Available online: http://cdkn.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/CDKN-Tackling-exposure-Mitchell1.pdf
Tom Mitchell ; Reinhard Mechler ; Katie Harris ; Climate and Development Knowledge Network ; Overseas Development Institute (United Kingdom)
Published by: CDKN ; 2012As a follow-up to a first paper A preliminary analysis of flood and storm disaster data in Viet Nam, this Quang Binh case study provides a more in-depth disaster profile of one particular province in Viet Nam, including specific temporal and spatial distribution patterns while using district aggregated data. It also looks deeper into the relationship between disasters and poverty through analysis of various indicators: number of deaths, impact on housing and agricultural produce, poverty rate and the percentage of poor households.
The first part of this paper examines the disaster profile of Quang Binh and the temporal and spatial distribution patterns disaggregated by district. The second part of the paper explores further the relationship between poverty and disaster data, analyzing the relationship between disaster loss and damage (the number of deaths, total number of houses destroyed and damaged, and areas of agriculture destroyed and damaged) and poverty (poverty rate, percentage of poor households) at district level.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Natural hazards ; Climate change ; Disaster Risk Management (DRM) ; Economics ; Tropical cyclone ; Severe cold ; Earthquake ; Flood ; Heat wave ; Landslide ; Region II - Asia ; El Salvador ; Honduras ; Mexico
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