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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Section One - Focus on community resilience

Chapter 1 From risk to resilience - helping communities cope with crisis
Box 1.1 Definitions of resilience
Box 1.2 Part 1: Afghan farmers recover more quickly than expected
Box 1.2 Part 2: Afghan children dispel myths of war trauma Box 1.3 Gujarat's poor invest to recover
Box 1.4 Tuti islanders fight floods together
Box 1.5 Argentine floods: state aid saps resilience

Chapter 2 Heatwaves: the developed world's hidden disaster
Box 2.1 Heatwaves: facts at a glance
Box 2.2 Who is most at risk?
Box 2.3 Cold waves in the UK: the other extreme
Box 2.4 Heatwave exposes public health failures
Box 2.5 Prevention tips in a heatwave

Chapter 3 Harnessing local capacities in rural India
Box 3.1 - Scaling up disaster resilience beyond the community
Box 3.2 - Mobile Biodiversity Festival
Map India

Chapter 4 Bam sends warning to reduce future earthquake risks
Box 4.1 Iranian sniffer dogs save more lives
Box 4.2 Hope amid the dust and destruction
Box 4.3 Iranian Red Crescent helps prepare public for disasters
Box 4.4 Tehran time bomb
Box 4.5 Sticks and carrots: developmental solutions to disaster
Figure 4.1 Iran: shaken by a century of quakes
Map Iran

Chapter 5 Building community resilience to disaster in the Philippines
Box 5.1 Six steps towards increasing community resilience Box 5.2 Motivating local people to participate
Box 5.3 Integrating disaster resilience and development
Map The Philippines

Chapter 6 AIDS: communities pulling out of downward spiral
Box 6.1 Orphans suffer neglect and abuse
Box 6.2 Selling cows, selling sex
Box 6.3 Alarm bells ring in China
Box 6.4 Ruth Musiego - a positive life
Box 6.5 How can Swaziland cope with HIV/AIDS?

Chapter 7 Surviving in the slums
Box 7.1 Rational long-term resilience in Mumbai
Box 7.2 Building resilience around a shared livelihood
Box 7.3 Slum communities and municipality collaborate in Santo Domingo

Chapter 8 Disaster data: key trends and statistics
Box 8.1 EM-DAT: a specialized disaster database
Box 8.2 US Committee for Refugees
Figure 8.1 Number of reported 'natural' and technological disasters (1994-2003)
Figure 8.2 Deadliest disasters of the decade (1994-2003) Figure 8.3 Average number of deaths per reported disaster (1994-2003)
Figure 8.4 Average economic damage per reported disaster (1994-2003)
Figure 8.5 ODA net disbursement in (US $ million) 1993-2002 Figure 8.6 ODA net disbursement in (US $ million) 2002 Figure 8.7 ODA - The five biggest DAC donors
Figure 8.8 ODA as percentage of DAC donors GNI in 2002 Figure 8.9 Emergency/distress relief by DAC donors in 2002

Table 1 Total number of reported disasters by continent and by year (1994 to 2003)
Table 2 Total number of people reported killed, by continent and by year (1994 to 2003)
Table 3 Total number of people reported affected by continent and by year (1994 to 2003) in thousands
Table 4 Total amount of disaster estimated damage, by continent and by year (1994 to 2003) in millions of US dollars Table 5 Total number of reported disasters, by type of phenomenon and by year (1994 to 2003)
Table 6 Total number of people reported killed, by type of phenomenon and by year (1994 to 2003)
Table 7 Total number of people reported affected, by type of phenomenon and by year (1994 to 2003) in thousands
Table 8 Total amount of disaster estimated damage, by continent and by year (1994 to 2003) in millions of US dollars Table 9 Total number of reported disasters, by continent and by type of phenomenon (1994 to 2003)
Table 10 Total number of people reported killed, by continent and by type of phenomenon (1994 to 2003)
Table 11 Total number of people reported affected, by continent and by type of phenomenon (1994 to 2003) in thousands
Table 12 Total amount of disaster estimated damage, by continent and by type of phenomenon (1994 to 2003) in millions of US dollars
Table 13 Total number of people reported killed and affected by disasters, by country (1984 to 1993; 1994 to 2003; and 2003)
Table 14 Refugees and asylum seekers by country/territory of origin (1997 to 2003)
Table 15 Refugees and asylum seekers by host country/territory (1997 to 2003)
Table 16 Significant populations of internally displaced people (1997 to 2003)