| Samenvatting: | As an urbanizing planet threatens more disasters and demands action to save live and livelihoods - from preparedness and mitigation to response and reconstruction - the Word Disasters Report 1998 has analysis and examples from the cites at risk all over the World.
Once more this top-value global information source and reference work will draw together the latest facts, statistics and thinking on all aspects of contemporary emergencies and their effect on the growing millions of vulnerable people worldwide.
The World Disasters Report 1998 corvers:
- Key issues - the future of urban disasters, the word killer that is traffic.
- Methodologies - shelter, psychological support.
- Year in disasters - Iraq, Colombia, refugee cities, Sarajevo, European floods.
- Comprehensive 25-year disasters database.
- Red Cross/Red Crescent listings.
- Plus, new in 1998: an extra section on the quality of aid, from trends in spending to
humanitarian ombudsmen, the Code of Conduct and Disaster Beneficiaries Charter.
The Report draws on the expertise and resourses of the 175-nation International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the world's most extensive and experienced humanitarian network.
Who should read the World Disasters Report 1998: donors and disaster professionals, community activists and aid workers, scientists and academics city politicains and town planners, journalists, soldiers, insurers and analysts - indeed, all those looking for strategies and tactics in the face of crisis. |
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