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Integrating Environmental Safeguards into Disaster Management: A Field Manual

Volume 3: Tools, Techniques and Relevant Resources

Compiler / Translator: Miththapala, S.

Publisher: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Place of Publish: Sri Lanka, Colombo

Year: 2009

Page Numbers: 141

Acc. No: 3413

Class No: 363.34 INT-SL

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Social Problems and Services

Type of Resource: Monograph

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-955-8177-88-4

The manual is a working document. In this volume, a worksheet is presented in a way that it can be copied and used in the field. Initially, a list of needs for carrying out integrated assessments is itemized. Technical documents that describe assessment techniques for each of the sections of integrated assessments – viz biodiversity and ecosystem services, environmental impact assessments, livelihoods and economic valuation - follow as resource material. The manual also presents an integrated summary worksheet as a tool for use. Details of the techniques for each component of assessment are also presented in this volume, as well as a list of available web resources. Simple methods for analyzing data obtained from integrated assessments are also presented. Alsopresented in this volume is the methodology for Rapid Environmental Impact Assessments and a summary about Strategic Environmental Assessments. Another tool for use - the CRISTAL tool for community-based risk assessment - is also described briefly. Briefs about the Cairo Principles, the Hyogo Framework of Action and Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response are also presented. Background information on the Emergency Personnel Network (EPN) and the Disaster Environment Working Group for Asia (DEWGA) is also given. The UNHCR handbook for emergencies is also summarized. Finally, guidelines for gender sensitive disaster management are also reproduced as reference material.