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Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation: An In-Service Training Module (T0124)
The Peace Corps’ Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation Pre–Service Training Module provides an initial introduction. This In–Service Training (IST) module builds on the Pre–Service Training (PST) module but also provides enough background so that the IST can be used alone if Volunteers did not receive the PST.
Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation: A Pre-Service Training Module (T0123)
Volunteers live and work in communities that may be especially affected by natural disasters because they are often in developing countries. They can and do make an enormous difference to the people within these communities. The purpose of this Pre–Service Training (PST) is to provide an introduction to and an overview of disaster management to minimize the risk of loss of life, negative economic impacts, and other potential effects of disasters.
DPM Idea Book: Integrating Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation in Your Work (M0084)
Despite the alarming statistics, events such as droughts, earthquakes and floods do not have to become disasters with devastating impacts on lives, livelihoods, the economy, and the environment. Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation activities can reduce the destruction and minimize suffering in disaster-prone places, creating truly sustainable development at the same time.
Handbook for Building Homes of Earth (R0034)
Probably one of the first homes man lived in after he came out of a cave, was made of earth. To be sure, the earliest known kinds of earth construction were very crude by our standards today. Primitive man did little more than stick mud on poles woven closely together. But even with this, he found shelter that was better than anything else he had except his cave. He also had the advantage of being able to move around. He could live wherever he wanted to.
