Editor's Corner

 Theme

• Network-Based Resource Brokerage Models for Disaster Response and Recovery

 From the Grassroots

• Media and Disasters: How News Coverage Influences Relief Aid

 Insight

• An Interactive, Intelligent, Spatial Information System: IISIS

 ADPC Programs & Activities

• Program for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER) Updates
• Disaster Reduction Program for Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam (DRP-CLV) Updates
• Partnerships for Disaster Reduction in South East Asia (PDR-SEA) Updates
• Asian Development Bank-ADPC Technical Assistance to the States of Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh
• EVRC Review Workshop: Experts Join Forces to Make Cities Safe from Earthquakes
• The 3rd Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees of ADPC
• 4th General Assembly of the Asian Seismological Commission
• Workshop on Legal and Institutional Frameworks, and Planning for Disaster Management

 Training & Education

• Regular Courses
• Asian Urban Disaster Mitigation Program (AUDMP)
• Extreme Climate Events Program (ECE)
• Partnership for Disaster Reduction in South East Asia (PDR-SEA)
• Program for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER)
• Other ADPC Events
• New Courses

 AUDMP Making cities safer

• Get Safer Cities ... Before Disasters Strikes
• "Stonecretes" Improved Lives
• ISDR Links Disaster Reduction with Sustainable Development

 Bookmarks

• Recent Publications
• ADPC Materials on Urban Disaster Mitigation

 Book Review

• FLOODS. Edited by D J Parker, Routledge Hazards and Disasters Series, 2000

 WWW Sites

• Disaster and Social Crisis Research Network
• Disaster Management Information System
• Gender and Disaster Network
• Crowding the Rim (CTR)
• Kutch Navnirman Abhiyan
• Pan American Health Organization's publication catalogue