These series of publications provide useful and working solutions to the problems of urban disaster mitigation.  The series covers a wide range of urban hazards and approaches to mitigating them.  The series began under the Asian Urban Disaster Mitigation Program (click here for issues 1 to 15).  PROMISE published nine more in the series.  The online versions for all issues appear here.

Guidelines for Safer Cities:
Case Studies on Mitigating Disasters in Asia and the Pacific, October 2007  

Safer Cities Case Studies (in PDF format)

• Safer Cities 1:
  Community Based Initiatives in Kathmandu Valley, January 2002

• Safer Cities 2:
  Coping with Flood in Cambodian Communities, June 2002

• Safer Cities 3:
  Mitigating Flood Risk in Cambodian Communities, July 2002

• Safer Cities 4:
  The School Earthquake Safety Program in Kathmandu Valley, January 2003

• Safer Cities 5:
  Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction in Central Sri Lanka, June 2003

• Safer Cities 6:
  Promotion of Disaster Mitigation in Sri Lanka, October 2003

• Safer Cities 7:
  Can small be beautiful? Community based flood mitigation in Bangladesh, February 2004

• Safer Cities 8:
  Channels of communications - A challenge, Public awareness in flood preparedness in Bangladesh, March 2004

• Safer Cities 9:
  Reducing fire Treats to Home: Piloting Community-based Fire Risk Assessment in Ban Hatsady Village, July 2004

• Safer Cities 10:
  Creating Earthquake Preparedness in Schools: A Case Study of Mitigation Efforts in Indonesia, August 2004

• Safer Cities 11:
  Towards Technological Hazards Risk Reduction in Ahmedabad: School as effective institutions for disaster awareness and preparedness, December 2004

• Safer Cities 12:
  Demonstration Housing Construction for Landslide and Flood Prone Areas: A case study from Ratnapura, Sri Lanka, January 2005

• Safer Cities 13:
  What is the Appropriate Mitigation Mix? Structural and non-structural mitigation in Hat Yai, Thailand, March 2005

• Safer Cities 14:
  Public Awareness and Social Marketing: Experiences from AUDMP, May 2005

• Safer Cities 15:
  Community-based Earthquake Risk Management in Dhaka City: Community empowerment for earthquake preparedness, May 2005

• Safer Cities 16:
  Cooperation between Local Authority and Communities Reduces Flood Disaster Risk in Dagupan City, Philippines, April 2007

• Safer Cities 17:
  Good Governance and Post-Tsunami Recovery in Patong, June 2007

• Safer Cities 18:
  The Boy Who Cried, “Wolf!” or Why a Community-based Alert System is a good idea, June 2007

• Safer Cities 19:
  Promoting Safer Housing Construction through CBDRM:
  Community-designed Safe Housing in Post-Xangsane Da Nang City, November 2007

• Safer Cities 20:
  Community Based Early Warning System and Evacuation:
  Planning, Development and Testing, March 2008

• Safer Cities 21:
  Community Empowerment and Disaster Risk Reduction in Chittagong City, June 2008

• Safer Cities 22:
  Flood Disaster Mitigation and River Rehabilitation by Marikina City, Philippines, August 2008

• Safer Cities 23:
  Urban Flood Risk Mitigation in Kalutara City, Sri Lanka, November 2008

• Safer Cities 24: 
  Learning to Act Together: Disaster Mitigation in Hyderabad, Pakistan through Collaborative Initiatives, March 2009

• Safer Cities 25:
  Reducing Vulnerabilities to Climate Change Impact and Strengthening Hydro-Meteorological Disaster Risk Mitigation in Secondary Cities in Asia, December 2008

• Safer Cities 26:
  Using Risk Assessments to Reduce Landslide Risk, September 2009

• Safer Cities 27:
  Flood preparedness initiatives of high-risk communities of Jakarta, June 2010

• Safer Cities 28:
  Building a Community-Centered Disaster-Resilient City, Jamalpur, Bangladesh, November 2010

• Safer Cities 29:
  Experiencing Good Governance with People's Participation: A Synergetic Approach for Disaster Risk Management, Matara, Sri Lanka, February 2011