12 Jul 2016
An article by Cynthia Renaud, police chief in Folsom, California, on how to strengthen the National Incident Management System (NIMS) by integrating solutions for managing complexity. The article explores the dynamics of the initial edge-of-chaos th...
Tags: Guidance material, Capacity Building for Disaster Risk Management
03 May 2016
“It´s pretty cool to see my face painted on the walls of my community, people ask me if it´s my picture and tell me it looks really nice.” – said Pedrito, the boy depicted on one of the community murals in Huaquillas. As part of the projec...
Tags: Other type of resource, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
08 Oct 2013
This 2012 ALNAP paper on urban lessons was written by David Sanderson, Paul Knox-Clarke and Leah Campbell and builds off a prior 2009 study written by Ian O’Donnell, Kristin Smart and Ben Ramalingam. It offers lessons pertaining to effecti...
Tags: Report, Behavior Change and Disaster Preparedness, Community Risk Assessment, Urban Risk Reduction