External Interventions for Disaster Risk Reduction: Impacts on Local Communities

1.Introduction

2 External Interventions, Development and Adaptation for Regularly Experienced Hazards

3 Dependency on External Assistance as an Added Component to Community Vulnerability: Experiences from Haor Communities in Bangladesh

4 Lessons Learned from the Interventions of External Bodies on Sri Lankan Disaster Management: Case Studies from Recent Floods

5 Disaster and Faith: Re-imaging the Religious Institutions as Potential Community Resiliency Platform at the Disaster Prone Coastal Areas in Bangladesh

6 Understanding Information Behavior to Improve Disaster Early Warning Systems: Experiences from Queensland, Australia in case of Bush Fire Incidents

7 Refugees in Foreign Land: A Community Based Approach for Mitigating Climatic Vulnerabilities of Rohingya Shelters in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

8 Incorporating Indigenous Cultural Practices and Avoiding Colonization in Responding to and Preventing Disasters: Experiences of Alaskan Natives in USA

9 Culture, Communities' Aspirations, and Reconstructed End Products: Evaluating Post-Sidr Projects in Southern Bangladesh.

10 Practicing Inclusiveness for Responding to Disasters: A Comparative Analysis of Selected Cyclone Shelters in Bangladesh
11 Preparedness, Impact of Monsoon, and the Survival Stories from a Rohingya Refugee Camp at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

12External Interventions, Development and Adaptation in Urban Areas: Facing Challenges of Rapid Urbanization

13 Developing Housing Quality through Responsive Adaptation as an Impact of External Interventions: Case Study of a River-side Urban Slum in Bangladesh

14 Interventions of NGO for Reducing Urban Disaster Risks: A Comparative Analysis of Marginalized Communities in Four Cities- Port au Prince, Haiti; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Nairobi, Kenya; and Freetown, Sierra Leone.

15 Collaborative Planning with Communities for Mitigating Urban Floods: Experiences from Jakarta, Indonesia

16 Small Changes with Big Impacts: Physical Interventions in Built Environment for Reducing Urban Disaster Risk in an Informal Settlement of Dhaka City, Bangladesh.

17 External Interventions, Development and Adaptation towards Changed Climatic Variables: A Global Perspective

18 Public and Private Sector Interventions in Post-Disaster Resettlement: A Case Study of Model Villages in Pakistan

19 Can Training Make Resilient Communities For Climate Induced Disasters? Views and Voices from Barishal Division, A Coastal Region in Bangladesh

20Impacts of Drought Adaptation Strategies on a Farming Community in Zimbabwe

21 Combining Preparedness, Natural Resource Management and Structural Measures for Adapting with Coastal Challenges: Experiences from Three Costal Areas in Haiti, Mozambique and Bangladesh

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