2011

March

• VFL 2011 Viet Nam Case study : Quang Tho Commune

• Crise ivoirienne :Le Burkina tente d’amortir le choc (DWF Projet Construction sans bois au Burkina)

• Viet Nam: Struggling to cope with rising prices

February

• DWF Safe housing reconstruction in Viet Nam - Video

• Increased flood risk linked to global warming

• 2011 Year of the Cat !

2010

December

• Emissions Punted to Durban, Breakthrough Seen on Forests

• CLIMATE CHANGE: A Cancun Christmas wish list

• Natural Disasters and Household Welfare: Evidence from Vietnam

November

• Natural catastrophes and man-made disasters caused economic losses of USD 222 billion in 2010

• Housing and Urban Development South-South Transfer Award

• Will Year of Extremes End with a Whimper?

• BANGLADESH: Community involvement key to disaster preparedness

• Factbox -Findings, errors by UN panel of climate scientists

• EU says fulfils climate aid pledge, but is it new?

• Thailand: Mixed results for local disaster preparedness

• CCA & DRR New Publications from IDS

• World Bank-UN Report Charts Path to Prevent Death and Destruction from Natural Hazards

• Survey puts climate change atop nation’s most pressing concerns

• Lesson from experience of Disaster Shelter or Reconstruction of Dwellings

October

• Viet Nam: Teaching new sanitation habits

• Analysis: Are humanitarians learning the lessons from Haiti?

• Big economies of the future most at risk from climate change

• EU Commission proposes to improve European disaster response

• First Asia-Pacific Disaster Report Launched by ESCAP and ISDR

• WB Urges Collective Action to Reduce Climate Change and Natural Disasters Impacts on Asian Economies

• MYANMAR: Cyclone Giri tests government-aid agency relations

• Fifteen dead found with sunken Vietnamese bus

• From Ox Carts to Canoes, Viet Nam Red Cross uses what it takes to reach flood survivors

• News from Cyclone MEGI 19th October 2010

• Viet Nam floods kill 41, survivors ‘destitute’

• Viet Nam: Experts assess flood preparedness

• Let businesses take the lead - in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam ?

• Cyclone N°15 Megi (Catfish) on the way to Viet Nam ?

• Viet Nam: Cyclones in the past

• Vietnam floods kill 66, half a million affected

• Vietnam flood death toll 49: officials

• 6 people die due to serious flooding in Central provinces (4 October 2010)

September

• PHILIPPINES: Disaster mitigation begins at home

• CLIMATE CHANGE: Adaptation Fund starts delivering

• Munich Re sees strong indication of climate change

• Haiti Earthquake Reconstruction: Knowledge Notes from DRM Global Expert Team for the Government of H

• A Hanoï, les gratte-ciel dévorent les rizières

• Storm kills five, adds to homeless misery in Haiti

• Disasters: Reducing the risk in slums

• Philippines strengthen disaster preparedness through SMS technology

• Analysis: Climate change may add to disaster death tolls

• Catastrophes naturelles en série : la faute au réchauffement climatique ?

• Bangladesh coastal residents at risk from lack of storm shelters

• Crime adds to misery for Pakistan’s flood victims

• MYANMAR: Rural poor hit by arbitrary “taxes”, says report

• PHILIPPINES: Bracing for La Niña

August

• Lionrock, Kompasu & Nam Theun, & others….Cyclones in NW Pacific 30 August 2010

• Pakistan: Help makes the difference between hope and despair (ECHO)

• Pakistan: Reaching flood victims by truck, mule and chopper

• Hue - Microdis Asian Symposium on Disasters

• Viet Nam: Cyclone N°3 Mindulle claims 10 lives in central region

• Bao N°3 Mindulle (Dandelion - Dent de lion, name from N. Korea) is visiting Hue ? (24 Aug 2010)

• Viet Nam Government urges Labor Ministry to issue new poverty standards

• The breathing earth simulation

• August 21 is Earth Overshoot Day

• MYANMAR: Nargis now a development issue, says Yangon

• Deux français lauréats de la Médaille Fields

• For your shelves ! New publications

• Why is the world not responding as Pakistan drowns?

• Viet Nam: IFRC - VNRC Shelter reconstruction programme with DWF technical Assistance

• Extreme weather unlikely to help climate talks

• Rebuilding after Pakistan floods could reach $15 bln

• Adaptation to climate change: linking disaster risk reduction and insurance

• Impacts of climate change on agriculture and policy options for adaptation - The case of Vietnam

• Rising temperatures threaten rice yield growth—study

• Pakistan troops evacuate thousands in flood disaster

• Viet Nam: Evacuation measures only partially effective for annually flooded central region

• Hellman/Hammett grants for free expression

• Philippines: Cash-strapped government battling storm loans