Responding to earthquakes 2008 - Learning from earthquake relief and recovery operations

This paper provides a distillation of the learning from thirty years of response to and recovery from earthquakes, concentrating on issues of particular relevance in earthquakes and practical recommendations for agencies on relief efforts, recovery, risk reduction, the management of aid, and livelihoods and shelter.
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The main intended audiences are operational decision makers and relief and recovery program managers working in the response and recovery efforts following sudden-onset natural disasters.The paper was jointly developed by ALNAP and ProVention.