From Google Scholar+ [to 5 April 2014]
Selected content from beyond the journals and sources covered above, aggregated from a range of Google Scholar monitoring algorithms and other monitoring strategies.

[HTML] Climate and Disaster Resilience: The Role for Community-Driven Development
“Arnold, Margaret; Mearns, Robin; Oshima, Kaori; Prasad, Vivek. 2014. Climate and Disaster Resilience : The Role for Community-Driven Development. World Bank, Washington, DC. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/17553
Pdf: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/17553/850070WP0CDD0C0Box382145B000PUBLIC0.pdf?sequence=1
This paper is part of a larger effort to document, assess, and promote scalable models and approaches to empower poor communities to manage a climate and disaster risk agenda in support of their development goals and to identify practical ways of getting climate and disaster risk financing directly to the ground level where impacts are felt. Social funds, social protection systems and safety nets, community-driven development (CDD) projects, livelihoods-support and related operational platforms can serve as useful vehicles for promoting community-level resilience to disaster and climate risk. This paper examines the World Bank’s Community-Driven Development (CDD) portfolio to assess experience to date and to explore the potential for building the resilience of vulnerable communities to climate and disaster risk through CDD programs. It aims to be useful to both the Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management practitioner as well as the CDD practitioner. The paper assesses the scale of climate and disaster resilience support provided through CDD projects from 2001-11 and characterizes the forms of support provided. For the climate change adaption and disaster risk management (DRM) practitioner, it discusses the characteristics of a CDD approach and how they lend themselves to building local-level climate resilience. For the CDD practitioner, the paper describes the types of activities that support resilience building and explores future directions for CDD to become a more effective vehicle for reducing climate and disaster risk.

[PDF] Knowledge management in the humanitarian sector: Challenges in improving decision-making
Maereg Tafere
12 March 2014 – Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection www.phap.org
Excerpt
When I contemplated writing on knowledge management (KM), an article by Alan Fowler from 1997 came to mind:
An almost universal weakness of NGOs is found within their often limited capacity to learn, adapt and continuously improve the quality of what they do. This is a serious concern because the future usefulness of NGOs for the world’s poor will depend on their ability to overcome their learning disabilities. Crudely put, if NGOs do not learn from their experience, they are destined for insignificance and will atrophy as agents of social change. NGOs urgently need to put in place systems which ensure that they know and learn from what they are achieving — as opposed to what they are doing — and then apply what they learn.1…

Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428
Satellite Remote Sensing as a Tool in Disaster Management and Sustainable Development: Towards a Synergistic Approach
Olalekan Mumin Belloa, Yusuf Adedoyin Ainab
Volume 120, 19 March 2014, Pages 365–373
3rd International Geography Symposium, GEOMED2013, 10-13 June 2013, Antalya, Turkey
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.02.114
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814016449
Abstract
Disasters have become an issue of growing concern throughout the world, whether it is natural hazards or through human factors. The frequency, as well as magnitude, of disasters threatening large population living in diverse environments is increasing in recent years across the world. These disasters also have far-reaching implications on sustainable development through social, economic and environmental impacts. It is highly imperative to develop effective tools for disaster management. Remote sensing systems have been playing a great role in disaster management in such areas as flooding, cyclones, drought, earthquake and tsunami. Satellite remote sensing is largely adopted due to its cost effectiveness, short temporal orbiting and large area of coverage. Remote sensing technologies have been used in disaster management especially during the preparedness/warning and response/monitoring stages. Despite the capabilities of remote sensing technologies in natural and human disaster management, there are still some limitations in its deployment due to the divide between developed and developing countries, data accessibility (especially high resolution imagery) and technological limitations. This paper examines the recent developments in the application of remote sensing in disaster management such as the proliferation of data through unprecedented sources (Google Earth, crowdsourcing, Global Land Cover) and improvement in data resolutions and integration of technologies. It examines how recent developments can help in overcoming the limitations of using remotely sensed data in disaster management. There is a need for more collaborative and interdisciplinary frameworks to fully utilize the capabilities of remote sensing in hazard and disaster management.

Early Child Development and Care
Volume 184, Issue 6, 2014
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gecd20/current#.U0GwNVcWNdc
Vulnerability of internally displaced children in disaster relief camps of Pakistan: issues, challenges, and way forward
Shela Akbar Ali Hirania*
DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2014.901012
Published online: 31 Mar 2014
Abstract
Pakistan is a developing country with the second highest infant and child mortality rates in South Asia. During the past years this region has undergone several humanitarian emergencies that have negatively affected all the aspects of health and development of young children. During these emergencies relief camps are set up by governmental and non-governmental agencies with the aim of meeting the physical needs of the targeted community by providing basic health care (first aid), food, water, and shelter. As these services do not adequately address children’s rights, all aspects of their health (physical, mental, social, and spiritual) and development, therefore, internally displaced children in the disaster relief camps of Pakistan are highly vulnerable to having a negative impact on all aspects of their health, brain development, learning, coping, and competence. Hence, to enable these children to develop their maximum potentials, cope positively, and become resilient, a well-thought child-care programme is recommended in the disaster relief camps of Pakistan.

Lincoln Planning Review
5(1-2) (2013) 60-61
http://journals.lincoln.ac.nz/index.php/LPR/issue/view/68/showToc
Indigenous Disaster Planning–reflections on recent conferences
Simon LAMBERT
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Environment, Society and Design, Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand
Excerpt
Reduction in Geneva continues worldwide efforts to adopt the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 (HFA) and its strategy of ‘Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters’. This year’s conference included a side event called ‘Engaging Indigenous People in Disaster Risk Reduction’. Organised by John Scott of the Centre for Public Service Communications, I was privileged to be invited onto the panel to discuss how Indigenous communities might contribute to local, national, and global disaster risk reduction practices. We stressed the necessity for Indigenous Peoples to have a voice in order to reduce disaster risk and vulnerability: imposing centralised solutions to local problems (many of which have successful solutions originating from Traditional Ecological Knowledge) threaten a community’s capacity to initiate risk reduction and save lives. Risks may include some that are unique to Indigenous communities – exacerbated by our histories of colonisation and ongoing marginalisation – but also include those we have in common with other communities worldwide.
I spoke on our research about the Māori response to the earthquakes of 2010-11, emphasising our traditional cultural institutions such as marae and their role in civil defence for all community members, our comfort in clustering as whānau and the continued relevance of cultural practices of manaakitanga (the obligations of hospitality) and whānaungatanga (acknowledging bonds of kinship)…