Environment
General environmental issues, waste management, water and sanitation, related policies and regulation
Go to Guidance Notes on Recovery: Environment
moreOrganizations
IRP partner organizations and organizations working in recovery.
moreMeetings and Trainings
Professional development on recovery issues through conferences, workshops, training and academic programmes
- IRP Regional Workshop in Yogyakarta (PDF, 270.6KB)
Action for Effective Management of Post-Disaster Recovery 3-5 Nov 2009 [IRP] - International recovery forum 2009
Building back better and greener 26-27 Jan 2009 [ADRC, ILO, IRP, UNDP, UNEP, UN/ISDR] - View all
moreTools and Guidelines
Find tools and guidelines useful for recovery operations
- Disaster Waste Management Guidelines (PDF, 639.7KB)
2011 [UNEP, UN/OCHA] - Hazard Identification Tool (PDF, 97KB)
2008 [UNEP, UN/OCHA] - Guidance note on early recovery (PDF, 3.1MB)
2008 [UNDP] - Guidance note on early recovery (PDF, 3.1MB)
2008 [UNDP] - Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation (PDF, 286.6KB)
2009 [IRP] - Adapting to Climate Change Can Reduce Disaster Risk (PDF, 297.5KB)
2009 [IRP] - Why environment in recovery (PDF, 259.7KB)
2009 [IRP] - Tools for environment in recovery (PDF, 239.7KB)
2009 [IRP] - Case studies environment in recovery (PDF, 452.7KB)
2009 [IRP] - Checklist for environment in recovery (PDF, 234.1KB)
2009 [IRP] - Post-Tsunami Environmental Assessment: seychelles (PDF, 4.8MB)
2005 [IUCN] - Environmental Stories after tsunami (PDF, 4.6MB)
2005 [IUCN] - Post-Tsunami Environmental Assessment Sri Lanka (PDF, 402.3KB)
2005 [UNEP] - Handbook for estimating the socio-economic and environmental effects of disasters (PDF, 7.4MB)
2003 [ECLAC] - Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
[European Commission] - Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
1996 [European Commission] - View all
morePublications
Select recovery documents and publications. Contributions welcome
- Managing post-disaster debris: the Japan experience (PDF, 2.7MB)
Report of the International Expert Mission to Japan 2012 [UNEP] - Earthquake Reconstruction (PDF, 3.5MB)
Recovery framework 2011 [GFDRR] - Quick Guide Post-Disaster Debris Management (PDF, 119.1KB)
Emergency Shelter Cluster 2011 [CARE] - Droughts and sustainable livelihoods in Iran
2004 - Preliminary assessment: Great East Japan Earthquake 2011 (PDF, 2MB)
2011 [ADRC, IRP] - The March 11, 2011, Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquake and Tsunami: Societal Dimensions
2011 - White Paper on Disaster Managment 2011-Executive Summary (PDF, 802.2KB)
2011 [Cabinet Office, Japan] - Preliminary assessment: Great East Japan Earthquake 2011 (PDF, 2MB)
[ADRC, IRP] - Mangroves for the Future (PDF, 2.1MB)
2007 [IUCN] - Linking environmental management and disaster mitigation (PDF, 361.2KB)
2007 [UNEP] - Back to business in a conducive environment (PDF, 685.7KB)
GTZ-supported economic reconstruction in Aceh in the frame of German development cooperation 2007 [GTZ] - Recovery reports: Thailand (from Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004) (PDF, 2.3MB)
2007 [Ministry of Interior, Thailand] - Recovery reports: Pakistan (from South Asia Earthquake 2005) (PDF, 5.5MB)
2007 [ERRA] - Progress in building an "end-to-end" Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System (PDF, 498.5KB)
2007 [UNESCO] - Tsunami Recovery Status Report: Maldives (PDF, 2.1MB)
2007 [Ministry of Housing, Transport and Environment, Maldives] - Tsunami Recovery Status Report: Indonesia (PDF, 3.3MB)
Lessons learned and recovering from tsunami disaster 2007 [State Ministry Of Research And Technology, Indonesia] - Further implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action - expectations for Hyogo - (PDF, 342.8KB)
2008 [UN/ISDR] - Mainstreaming environment in into recovery: Myanmar (PDF, 592.6KB)
2009 [UNEP] - Disaster hazards in Bhutan (PDF, 2.7MB)
2009 [Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs, Bhutan] - Overview of innovative techniques in environmentally-aware recovery for infrastructure, paper (PDF, 694.1KB)
Applications of selected research outputs for the mitigation and management of crisis and recovery operations 2009 [SEACAP] - Environment and disaster recovery (PDF, 2MB)
2009 [UNEP] - Recent recovery experience with regards to the integration of environment and climate change concerns, Thailand (PDF, 2.4MB)
2009 [Ministry of Interior, Thailand] - Recent recovery experience with regards to the integration of environment and climate change concerns, Madagascar (PDF, 2.2MB)
2009 [CPGU] - Sustainable recovery and reconstruction framework (SURRF) (PDF, 357.4KB)
2008 - Building Back a Green and Low-Carbon Community (PDF, 534.1KB)
Putting environment and climate change at the heart of recovery and reconstruction 2009 [ILO] - Resilient recovery processes that take into account ecosystem and ecosystem service, Pakistan (PDF, 2.7MB)
2009 [NDMA] - Building Back Better
[UNEP] - Regional workshop on best practices in disaster mitigation
Lessons learned from the Asian urban disaster mitigation program and other initiatives 2002 [UNDP, UN/ISDR] - Reclamation of flood-damaged areas through agro-forestry: A case study from Nepal
2006 - National report of Japan on disaster reduction (PDF, 2.5MB)
for the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (18-22 January 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan) 2005 [Cabinet Office, Japan] - Sharing Japan's experience in natural disasters
Anthology of Good Practices - to create a global culture of prevention - 2005 [Cabinet Office, Japan] - A comparative study on recovery and reconstruction (PDF, 145.1KB)
A case for an international platform 2003 [ADRC] - Report on recovery and reconstruction following the Orissa Super Cyclone in October 1999 (PDF, 112.8KB)
2002 [ADRC] - Eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in June 1991 (PDF, 141.1KB)
Comparative study on Recovery and Reconstruction 2004 [ADRC] - Good practices of Total Disaster Risk Management
2005 [ADRC] - A preliminary assessment of damage from the flood and cyclone emergency of February-March 2000 (PDF, 258.6KB)
2000 [The World Bank] - Grenada: Hurricane Ivan preliminary assessment of damages (PDF, 52.6KB)
September 17, 2004 2004 [The World Bank] - Guyana: Preliminary damage and needs assessment (PDF, 730.9KB)
Following the intense flooding of January 2005 2005 [The World Bank] - Gujarat Earthquake Recovery Program Assessment (PDF, 148.4KB)
2001 [ADB] - Measuring the Value of Land (PDF, 1.2MB)
2011 [UNEP, UNDP, FAO] - Florida Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning Guidebook
2010 - Haiti Earthquake PDNA (PDF, 1.5MB)
Assessment of damage, losses, general and sectoral needs 2010 [Government of Haiti] - Action Plan for National Development and Recovery of Haiti (PDF, 1.5MB)
Immediate Key Initiatives for the Future 2010 [Government of Haiti] - Timber (PDF, 2.6MB)
2007 [UN/OCHA] - Guiding principles for post-tsunami rehabilitation and reconstruction
The Cairo Principles 2005 [UNEP] - Greenspan Update Q2 2011 Innovative Environment Solutions (PDF, 3.1MB)
2011 - Guiding Principles for Post-Tsunami Reconstruction (PDF, 413.1KB)
2005 [UNEP] - RGS papaer 3, Arsenic contaminated aquifers, a study of the Ganga levee zones in Bihar, India (PDF, 70.4KB)
GLOBAL WARMING AND CHANGING LAND USE PATTERNS IN BIHAR PLAINS, INDIA 2007 [Anugrah Narayan College Patna, Magadh University] - RGS papaer 1, Arsenic contaminated aquifers, a study of the Ganga levee zones in Bihar, India (PDF, 116.3KB)
paper 1 for Annual Conference 2007, Royal Geographical Society, London 2007 [Anugrah Narayan College Patna, Magadh University] - Drought response in El Salvador (PDF, 255.8KB)
2003 [IFRC] - Moving Mountains: The Story of Debris Removal from the Earthquake-hit City of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan (PDF, 669.5KB)
2007 [ERRA] - Changing Geomorphology of the Kosi River System in the Indian subcontinent (PDF, 1.5MB)
a Paper presented in the Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, USA 2009 [Anugrah Narayan College Patna, Magadh University] - Aquaculture Farm Rehabilitation post tsunami : FAO (PDF, 2.1MB)
2005 [FAO] - IRP Recovery Status Report 01 Yogyakarta
The Yogyakarta and Central Java Earhquake 2006 Current Status Report 2010 [IRP] - Lessons from Aceh: key considerations in post-disaster reconstruction (PDF, 6.8MB)
2010 [DEC] - Beyond Kobe (PDF, 294KB)
A Proactive Look at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction. 18-22 January 2005, Kobe, Japan 2005 - Status of coral reefs in tsunami affected areas (PDF, 5.9MB)
2006 - Forest recovery post tsunami: Sri Lanka (PDF, 161.4KB)
2006 [FAO] - Forest recovery post tsunami: Maldives (PDF, 223.6KB)
2006 [FAO] - Forestry recovery post tsunami: Indonesia: FAO (PDF, 242.6KB)
2006 [FAO] - Rapid Environmental Assessment post tsunami (PDF, 9.3MB)
2005 [UNEP] - Responding to coastal disasters (PDF, 247.1KB)
2008 - Public health after Katrina (PDF, 2.7MB)
2007 - Environment and Reconstruction in Aceh 2 years (PDF, 2.5MB)
2007 [UNEP] - Lessons Learnt from the Tokage Typhoon: Japan (PDF, 869.1KB)
2005 [UNEP] - Lessons from Drought Recovery - Sahel Africa (PDF, 669.4KB)
2007 - Concepts and Practices of Resilience (PDF, 989.1KB)
2006 - Haiti Earthquake Reconstruction Knowledge Notes
2010 [GFDRR] - After the Tsunami: Sustainable Building Guides for Southeast Asia (PDF, 639.7KB)
2007 [UNEP] - Disaster Waste Management Guidelines (PDF, 639.7KB)
2011 [MSB, UNEP, UN/OCHA] - UNEP in China: Building Back Better (PDF, 1.9MB)
2010 [UNEP] - Cost Benefit Study of Disaster Risk Mitigation Measures in Three Islands in the Maldives (PDF, 1.6MB)
2009 [UN/ISDR, UNDP] - Sri Lanka Innovative Approaches for Involuntary Resettlement (PDF, 1.8MB)
Lunawa Environmental Improvement and Community Development Project 2009 [JICA, UN-HABITAT] - Overcoming Drought in India: Adaptation Strategies for the State of Andhra Pradesh (PDF, 818.7KB)
2006 [The World Bank] - Early recovery Wenchuan earthquake - Environment (PDF, 1.5MB)
2008 [] - Guiding Principles on Coastal Reconstruction after tsunami (PDF, 413.1KB)
2006 [UNEP] - Disease impact post tsunami (PDF, 2MB)
2005 - Managing water for drought (PDF, 1.5MB)
2000 - assessment of disaster impact on food supply in Madagascar (PDF, 128.1KB)
2000 [FAO] - Environmental health management ex-post (PDF, 4.5MB)
1982 [WHO] - Coastal Ecosystem Restoration after tsunami: Lessons Learnt (PDF, 3.8MB)
2007 [UNEP] - RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT BANDA ACEH (PDF, 2.9MB)
2005 - Assessment of Damage to Coral Reefs from tsunami (PDF, 1.6MB)
2005 - Mangroves in tsunami recovery (PDF, 919.2KB)
2005 [IUCN] - Environmental Stories: After Tsunami
2006 [IUCN] - Managing water for drought (PDF, 1.5MB)
1994 - Lessons from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
2008 [JICA] - World Conference on disaster reduction (PDF, 894.3KB)
18-22 January 2005, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan 2005 [UNDP, UN/ISDR] - Reducing risk through environment in recovery operations (PDF, 983.9KB)
2009 [UNEP, UN/ISDR] - Turkey Marmara earthquake assessment (PDF, 820.4KB)
1999 [The World Bank] - Belize: Assessment of the damage caused by Hurricane Keith, 2000 (PDF, 1MB)
Implications for economic, social and environmental development 2000 [ECLAC] - Indonesia: Preliminary damage and loss assessment (PDF, 3.1MB)
The December 26, 2004 natural disaster 2005 [BAPPENAS] - Tsunami: Impact and recovery (PDF, 309.2KB)
Maldives post-Tsunami damage and needs assessment 2005 [The World Bank] - India: Post-Tsunami recovery program (PDF, 1.9MB)
Preliminary damage and needs assessment 2005 [ADB] - Pakistan 2005 earthquake (PDF, 1.2MB)
Preliminary damage and needs assessment 2005 [ADB] - Indonesia: Post-earthquake damage and loss assessment for Central Java and Yogyakarta (PDF, 5.8MB)
2006 [ADB, BAPPENAS] - Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh: Damage, loss, and needs assessment for disaster recovery and reconstruction (PDF, 7MB)
2008 [European Commission] - 2008 Cyclone season in Madagascar: Damage, loss, and needs assessment for disaster recovery and reconstruction (PDF, 6.2MB)
Cyclone Fame, Ivan and Jokwe in Madagascar 2008 [The World Bank] - Pakistan 2005 earthquake (PDF, 3.8MB)
Early recovery framework 2005 - Sri Lanka 2005 post-Tsunami recovery program (PDF, 551.8KB)
Preliminary damage and needs assessment 2005 [ADB] - View all