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Links
This is a small selection of websites, organisations, blogs, journals, books, research tools etc that I’ve found useful.
Humanitarian bamboo
The Humanitarian Bamboo project
A project aiming to develop standards and guidelines for the use of bamboo in post-disaster response. Aims to bridge the gap between the knowledge held by skilled bamboo artisans and professionals about bamboo construction and the very immediate need for practical solutions and recommendations of aid workers and affected communities. gather together the lessons learned by the humanitarian sector, about the use of bamboo in post disaster reconstruction, from Jogjakarta and other sources. to better support the sustainable use of bamboo in quality post disaster reconstruction.
Cluster coordination
Humanitarianreform.org: information on the cluster approach.
Cluster Coordination
Humanitarian aid and disaster management
check out their blog rolls
Feinstein International Centre
Peter Walker’s blog
Irinnews
the one that alecgrey and gav recommended aid alert
EMA
Journals
Journal of disaster management
EMA
INGO and aid agencies
OCHA
IFRC
Oxfam
Save the Children
Care
Caritas
Hyogo
SPHERE
Indonesian national disaster mitigation
Books
The Handbook of Disasters and Emergencies, Policies and Institutions by Handmer and Dovers, 2007 (preview)
Resilience thinking by Walker and Salt, 2006 (preview)
Natural Disasters and Development in a Globalizing World by Mark Pelling, 2003 (preview)
The Shock Doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism by Naomi Klein, 2007
At Risk: Natural Hazards, People’s Vulnerability and Disasters, by Ben Wisner et al, 2003
Disasters and Development, by Frederick C. Cuny, Susan Abrams, 1983 (preview)
Methodology and research
Methods, sex and madness, by Julia O’Connell Davidson, Derek Layder, 1994 (preview)
Create Change: supporting online digital scholarship
A Periodic Table of Visualisation Method
My favourite research tools: Scrivener, Devonthink, citeulike, del.icio.us, zotero
Systems thinking
Resilience Alliance: research on resilience in socio-ecological systems - a basis for sustainability
Cosma Shalizi’s Notebooks
InterSciWiki: an open collaborative editing and community wiki focusing on cross-disciplinary and complexity sciences research
Jogya earthquake
http://yogyaearthquake.wordpress.com/
My first stop for reading about land administration issues 
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