International Recovery Platform

This documents provides a description of the activities and observations of a field trip to observe damage caused by the January 26, 2001, Bhuj earthquake. The mission of the trip was to investigate the Gujarat earthquake catastrophe from several angles

This report assesses environmental conditions in Indonesia’s Aceh and North Sumatra provinces, two years after the tsunami that occurred in the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004. The report arrives at a pivotal moment, as the reconstruction process is being re-evaluated from a number of critical perspectives.

One year after the Tsunami, and following the unprecedented humanitarian aid that flowed, and with a lot of talk on disaster preparedness, several areas have been found wanting - coordination, networking, policy and direction, financing, monitoring of