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At Scidev's Agriculture & Environment: Tropical cyclones site Greg O'Hare explains the what, why, when and how of cyclones, and reviews their effects in South Asia. 'Tropical cyclone' is the general term for low-pressure atmospheric circulations in the tropics. These have anticlockwise rotating win
http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/tropical-cyclones-1/feature...

his report is the summary of a project implemented in Orissa, India which aims to carry out a resilience process at community level in order to bring local priorities and capacities of disaster prone vulnerable communities to disaster risk reduction programming. It reports on activities that link co
http://www.preventionweb.net/files/13473_13473EOPReport1.pdf

This project places an emphasis on accumulation of knowledge related to environments and disaster prevention. One of the expected outcomes is a system to improve human security in the Asian region with the implementation of a disaster management system Principal Investigator : Hiromichi FUKUI Fac
http://www.digitalasia.sfc.keio.ac.jp/index_en.php

Economic impact of natural disasters : tracking the medium-short term growth time path in Asian countries / Yielmaz Javed. - Jönköping : Jönköping University. Jönköping International Business School, 2010. - 38 p. (Bachelor's thesis) Past decades have witnessed evidence to large-scale upheaval cau
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12743

Etter tsunamien stilnet : en studie av post-tsunami gjenoppbyggingen langs den sørlige kystlinjen av Sri Lanka / Marie Christine Norheim. - Oslo : Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi, Universitetet i Oslo, 2008. - 120 s. (Masteropgave) Hovedmålet med denne studien er å se nærmere på hvilke
http://www.duo.uio.no/publ/iss/2008/82651/Norheim.pdf

Magisteruppsats (2005) En katastrofsituation är alltid unik och dess konsekvenser beroende av händelsens omfattning. När katastrofen är ett faktum är dock alltid information och kommunikation en viktig del av katastrofhanteringen och den informationstörst som uppstår gör medierna till en viktig part
http://www.diva-portal.org/diva/getDocument?urn_nbn_se_liu_diva-3377-1__fulltext...

This paper written by Karin Hansson and Love Ekenberg of the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University, looks at the problems caused by flooding in the Red River delta in Vietnam, and the difficulties faced, due to increased costs of flood defence repairs and costs to damag
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00000830/

Doctoral dissertation (2004) - Description of the problems Throughout history floods have been one of the most severe natural catastrophes, which brought about loss of lives and huge economic losses in addition to the influence on community activities and adverse effects on the environment. We have
http://www.diva-portal.org/diva/getDocument?urn_nbn_no_ntnu_diva-555-2__fulltext...

Doctoral dissertation (2004) Throughout history floods have been one of the most severe natural catastrophes, which brought about loss of lives and huge economic losses in addition to the influence on community activities and adverse effects on the environment. We have witnessed enormous flood event
http://www.diva-portal.org/diva/getDocument?urn_nbn_no_ntnu_diva-308-1__fulltext...

Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
Frida Hastrup is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. She holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Copenhagen, and her doctoral research focused on notions and practices of recovery after the Asian tsunami in 2004 based on fieldwork in a fishin
http://waterworlds.ku.dk/