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Risk RED Risk Reduction Education for Disasters http://www.riskred.org

Risk RED's Favourite Information Sources

Risk RED is frequently asked for sources on specific disaster-related topics. This site provides the best material, frequently referencing ourselves because we believe that we produce excellent material, on the most popular topics with reference to risk reduction education for disasters. This site is deliberately not meant to be comprehensive, instead targetting key sources. The topics covered are:

• Children.


• Cities.


• Climate change and disaster risk reduction.


• Community-based teams.


• Corporate social responsibility.


• Development and disasters.


• Disability.


• Disaster deaths / disaster mortality.


• Education.


• Gender.


• Indigenous knowledge.


• Islands.


• Livestock, Pets, and Other Animals.


• Resilience.


• Schools.


• Shelter and settlements post-disaster.


• Vulnerability.


• Warning.

• Gill, S., L. Gulsvig, and L. Peek. 2008. "Children and Disasters Annotated Resource List." Children, Youth and Environments, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 485-510, full text (175 in PDF).

• The journal Children, Youth and Environments published a special issue on "Children and Disasters", vol. 18, no. 1, 2008, full text.

• Kelman, I. (ed.). 2007. "Earthquake Safety of Schoolchildren". Special issue of Regional Development Dialogue, vol. 28, no. 2. Includes contributions from Risk RED people Ben Wisner, Bishnu Pandey, Djillali Benouar, Manu Gupta, Marla Petal, Nevra Ertürk, Rebekah Green, Sanjaya Bhatia, and Yasamin Izadkhah plus with thanks to Allan Lavell. Download the table of contents (124 kb in PDF)

Never overlook children (or pets) for disaster risk reduction (Copyright Ilan Kelman 1997).

• Geography of Urban Social Vulnerability http://geic.hq.unu.edu/env/project1.cfm?type=1&ID=28 and http://www.unu.edu/env/urban/social-vulnerability/index.htm

• Building Safer Cities full text (3.3 MB in PDF).

• Many initiatives and principles exist regarding urban disater risk reduction, including:

  • ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability).

  • LACDE (Local Authorities Confronting Disasters and Emergencies).

  • PURR (The Partnership for Urban Risk Reduction).

  • Shanghai Principles.

  • United Cities and Local Governments.

  • Wingspread Principles.

Suva, Fiji (Copyright Ilan Kelman 2005).

• Michael Glantz' approach to "creeping environmental problems/changes/phenomena" provides an apposite conceptual framework, and then applies that framework, for viewing climate change within wider contexts of environmental changes, including but not exclusively related to, disasters. The work started with:
  -Glantz, M.H. 1994. "Creeping Environmental Problems". The World & I, June, pp. 218-225.
  -Glantz, M.H. 1994. "Creeping environmental phenomena: Are societies equipped to deal with them?" Pages 1-10 in M.H. Glantz (ed.), Creeping Environmental Phenomena and Societal Responses to Them, Proceedings of Workshop held 7-10 February 1994 in Boulder, Colorado. NCAR/ESIG, Boulder Colorado.
  Since then, he has had numerous other publications on the topic such as http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521620864

• The journal Disasters published a special issue on "Natural Disasters and Climate Change", vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 1-150, March 2006.

• Kelman, I. and E. Karnes. 2007. "Relocalising Disaster Risk Reduction in Boulder, Colorado". Australian Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 18-25, full text (147 kb in PDF).
  Kelman, I. 2008. "Relocalising Disaster Risk Reduction for Urban Resilience". Urban Design and Planning, vol. 161, no. DP4, pp. 197-204, abstract (13 kb in PDF). The journal did not make three changes requested at the proof stage, so the journal's published version has errors. The full text with three corrections is available here (822 kb in PDF).
  These papers combines climate change and disaster risk reduction concerns through a relocalisation framework.

• Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have always known to integrate climate change and disaster issues, but the helpfulness of this material might depend on the usefulness of an island approach to your work. See in particular the work of James Lewis, Small Island Developing States, and Island Vulnerability. There are plenty of connections between SIDS and other islands; for example, see the Many Strong Voices programme for climate change and arctic-SIDS connections.

• UNISDR http://www.unisdr.org/eng/risk-reduction/climate-change/climate-change.html

• Risk RED Bulletin on Community Sustainability Teams (15 kb in PDF).

Participation for community-based sustainability in Boulder, Colorado (Copyright Ilan Kelman 2007).

• AON Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre http://www.abuhrc.org/research/dsm/Pages/project_view.aspx?project=18

• Provention Consortium http://www.proventionconsortium.org/?pageid=32&projectid=12

• Lewis, J. 1999. Development in Disaster-prone Places: Studies of Vulnerability. Intermediate Technology Publications, London, UK.

• Radix Network http://www.radixonline.org

• UNDP. 2004. Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development. UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), Geneva, Switzerland, full text (as a webpage).

• UNISDR http://www.unisdr.org

• Wisner, B., P. Blaikie., T. Cannon, and I. Davis. 2004. At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters, 2nd ed., Routledge, London, UK.

• AON Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre http://www.abuhrc.org/research/dsm/Pages/project_view.aspx?project=15

• Global Campaign on Disaster and Disability http://www.smrcorissa.org

• June Kailes http://www.jik.com

All needs must be accounted for to achieve successful disaster risk reduction (Copyright Ilan Kelman 2005).

• Ilan Kelman's list of sources http://www.ilankelman.org/disasterdeaths.html

• Enarson, E. and B.H. Morrow (eds). 1998. The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Through Women's Eyes. Praeger Publishers, Connecticut, USA.

• Gender and Disaster Network http://www.gdnonline.org

Everyone must contribute to achieve successful disaster risk reduction (Copyright Ilan Kelman 2006).

• Gaillard, J.-C. 2007. "Resilience of Traditional Societies in Facing Natural Hazards". Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 522-544, full text (280 kb in PDF, with kind permission of the publisher and author).

• Jessica Mercer (PhD work) and now working for CAFOD in London.

• Rajib Shaw (CV), especially:
  Shaw, R., N. Uy, and J. Baumwoll (eds.). 2008. Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction: Good Practices and Lessons Learned from Experiences in the Asia-Pacific Region. United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Asia and Pacific Office, Bangkok, Thailand, full text (3 Mb in PDF).

• Island Vulnerability http://www.islandvulnerability.org


Crop Over in Barbados (Copyright Ilan Kelman 1998).

• Heath S.E. 1999. Animal Management in Disaster. Mosby Year Book, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

• Ray, S. 1999. Animal Rescue in Flood and Swiftwater Incidents. CFS Press, Asheville, North Carolina, USA.

• Sebastian Heath http://www.animaldisasters.com

Please don't leave me behind when you evacuate! (Copyright Ilan Kelman 2008).

• Good references on resilience/vulnerability http://www.islandvulnerability.org/docs/vulnres.pdf (105 kb in PDF) and resilience/vulnerability references being critiqued http://www.islandvulnerability.org/docs/vulnrecritiques.pdf (85 kb in PDF).

• Coalition for Global School Safety & Disaster Prevention Education http://cogssdpe.ning.com

• Risk RED's School Safety and Educational Material

• Wisner, B. 2006. Let Our Children Teach Us! A Review of the Role of Education and Knowledge in Disaster Risk Reduction. Books for Change, India, full text (2,730 kb in PDF).

HIV/AIDS education in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (Copyright Jessica Mercer 2006.)

• Shelter Centre http://www.sheltercentre.org

Shelters for internally displaced people, Panjwai, Kandahar, Afghanistan (Copyright Joseph Ashmore 2003).

• Good references on vulnerability/resilience http://www.islandvulnerability.org/docs/vulnres.pdf (105 kb in PDF) and vulnerability/resilience references being critiqued http://www.islandvulnerability.org/docs/vulnrecritiques.pdf (85 kb in PDF).

• Glantz, M.H. 2003. Usable Science 8: Early Warning Systems: Do's and Don'ts, Report from the workshop held 20-23 October 2003 in Shanghai, China. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A., full text (1,862 kb in PDF, with kind permission of the publisher and author).

• Glantz, M.H. 2004. Usable Science 9: El Niño Early Warning for Sustainable Development in Pacific Rim Countries and Islands, Report from the workshop held 13-16 September 2004 on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A., full text (891 kb in PDF, with kind permission of the publisher and author).

• Glantz, M.H. (ed.) 2007. Heads Up! Early Warning Systems for Climate, Water and Weather. Tsinghua University Press, Beijing and Climate Affairs LLC, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A., table of contents (32 kb in PDF) and new edition published in 2009 by United Nations University.

• Eve Gruntfest http://www.uccs.edu/~geogenvs/ecg

• Mileti, D.S. 1975. Natural Hazard Warning Systems in the United States: A Research Assessment. Program on Technology, Environment, and Man, Monograph #NSF-RA-E-75-013. Natural Hazards Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, full text (3,117 kb in PDF, with kind permission of the publisher and author).

• Mileti, D.S., R. Bandy, L.B. Bourque, A. Johnson, M. Kano, L. Peek, J. Sutton, and M. Wood. 2006. Bibliography and Annotated Bibliography for Public Risk Communication on Warnings for Public Protective Actions Response and Public Education (Revision 4), Natural Hazards Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, download the full text of the Bibliography (88 kb in PDF) and Annotated Bibliography (646 kb in PDF).

• Mileti, D.S. and E. Kuligowski. 2008. Warning Systems and Public Response: Social Science Research Findings and Evidence Based Applications for Practice (Revision 13) full text (6.6 Mb in a new version of PowerPoint; apologies that this file will not open in older versions of PowerPoint and the file size is too large in older versions).

• Mileti, D.S. and J.H. Sorensen. 1990. Communication of Emergency Public Warnings: A Social Science Perspective and State-of-the-Art Assessment. Prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, D.C. Prepared by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA, full text (2,665 kb in PDF, with kind permission of the publisher and author).

• UNISDR http://www.unisdr.org/ppew


Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Oahu, Hawai'i (Copyright Ilan Kelman 2005).

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