Community-driven disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in urban areas

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, 636 pages
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Language:
English
Published: October 2011
Area(s):
Environment and Urbanization
Product code:10605IIED

The papers in this issue bring to our attention the importance of community action – for disaster risk reduction, for post-disaster rebuilding and for climate change adaptation. The paper by Diane Archer and Somsook Boonyabancha highlights the energy and creativity of disaster-affected communities as they rebuild their homes and livelihoods far more effectively and far more cheaply than external agencies. The paper by Norberto Carcellar, Jason Christopher Rayos Co and Zarina O Hipolito describes the support programme developed by the Homeless People’s Federation of the Philippines for disaster-affected communities and for disaster risk reduction, and the benefits this brings to low-income disaster-affected or atrisk households. The paper by Cassidy Johnson reviews the roles of local civil society groups in Turkey after the 1999 earthquakes. And the paper by Mark Pelling considers the roles of community organizations in urban disaster risk reduction in Haiti, Guyana and the Dominican Republic. Other papers in this issue show the importance of community organizations in developing responses to disaster risk or in post-disaster rebuilding and in trying to get government support to do so.

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Archer, D., Boonyabancha, S., Carcellar, N., Co, J., Hipolito, Z., Pelling, M., Hardoy, J., Pandiella, G., Velásquez, L., Johnson, C., Ramachandraiah, C., Audefroy, J., Moser, C. and St, A. (2011). Community-driven disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in urban areas . .
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