Urban Governance and Community Resilience Guides

This series of guidebooks are designed to raise awareness of the challenges local governments face in reducing disaster risks. These guidebooks offer essential tools and possible solutions to make that will help local governments to make effective decisions. The guidebooks can be used as self-study material by individual readers, as a resource for participants in a training course or program, or as a reference for government officials.

• Book 1 - Our Hazardous Environment (2010)
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  Book 1 examines the causes of increasing urban risks, and stresses the urgency to act now in a collaborative and integrated manner involving all sectors of society.
   

• Book 2 - Risk Assessment in Cities (2010)
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  Book 2 provides guidelines in selecting appropriate assessment methodologies to evaluate risks and support decision-making processes.
   

• Book 3 - Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction (2010)
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  Book 3 outlines the planning process in managing urban disaster risks, focusing on the process of transforming risk assessments into appropriate, effective and sustainable actions.
   

• Book 4 - Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction (2010)
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  Book 4 introduces the concept of ‘mainstreaming’ as the core framework for local government to reduce disaster risks. This guidebook demonstrates how to integrate the principles of disaster risk management into development goals, governance arrangements and action strategies.