Assessing and responding to land tenure issues in disaster risk management
Subtitle: training manual
By: David Mitchell ; with the supervision of Adriana Herrera Garibay
Contributors: Herrera, Adriana; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Series: FAO land tenure manuals -- 3; FAO land tenure manuals -- 3.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9789251068083; 9789252057840
Subjects: Emergency management; Handbooks, manuals; Land tenure
Other titles: Land tenure and natural disasters
Description: This manual aims to provide an overview of the major land issues that may arise following a natural disaster which need to be considered and included in the decision-making processes associated with response, recovery and rehabilitation.  The disasters included in this discussion are hydrometeorological disasters (such as floods, drought, tropical cyclones, storm surges and tornadoes) and geophysical disasters (such as earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches and landslides).  Most of these disasters are rapid onset and cause extensive loss of life, loss of livelihoods and damage to infrastructure.  Drought, a slow-onset disaster, also is considered in these training materials because of its severe global impact and because there are particular land tenure issues associated with extended and recurrent droughts.--Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographies.

Also freely available online.
Table of contents: title: What is land tenure?: Types of property rights ; Access to land ; Security of tenure ; Legitimacy of rights to land ; The importance of effective land governance; title: Impact of natural disasters on livelihoods and food security ; Humanitarian charter and minimum standards in disaster response; title: Disaster risk reduction: The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015; title: Disaster risk management; title: Land administration and natural disasters; title: Land issues following hydrometeorological disasters; title: Land issues following geophysical disasters; title: The relationship between drought and land tenure; title: Pre-disaster mitigation: Hazard risk mapping and land tenure ; Education about land rights ; Ensuring land records are safe; title: Pre-disaster preparedness: Land policies and legal framework ; Land management and land-use planning ; Protecting the property rights of the more vulnerable ; Capacity-building in land administration ; Developing baseline information; title: Responding to land issues in the emergency response phase: Evacuation, transitional settlement and emergency shelter ; Incorporating land issues into rapid assessments ; Coordinating the use of spatial information; title: Early recovery: Detailed livelihood assessment ; Detailed shelter and settlement assessment ; Socio-economic and gender analysis ; Land tenure questions for a detailed assessment ; Land availability and hazard risk mapping ; Site selection for transitional shelter and settlement ; Measures to reduce land speculation and conflict ; The importance of coordination ; The role of local land institutions; title: Long-term recovery: Adjudication of land rights; title: Reconstruction and ongoing development activities: Restoring capacity in the land administration system ; Moving from transitional shelter to reconstruction ; Managing conflict over land.