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Urban baghdad: Impact of conflIct on daily life
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Iraq

This report calls on the Government of Iraq to work in collaboration with Iraqi NGOs, civil society, the UN and international partners to develop sustainable policies for improving everyday life...

Building Equitable Transitional Shelters in Guatemala
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

Overview of shelter building in Guatemala after tropical storm Agatha
Guatemala Country Brief: Property Rights and Land Markets
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Land Tenure Center
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

The purpose of this Country Brief is to assist in the assessment of USAID’s investments in land markets and property rights in Guatemala since 1980. The aim is to provide a summary of the...

Disaster Risk Management in Central America: GFDRR Country Notes...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

Country notes on disaster risk management in Guatemala. It provides a disaster risk profile and a disaster risk management framework of the country. In addition to cover activities undertaken...

Plan de Gobierno de Guatemala: Plan de la Esperanza
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Unidad Nacional de la EsperanzaUnited Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

Las políticas del plan de gobierno de la Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza –UNE-, son el esfuerzo de seis años de trabajo de ciudadanos guatemaltecos, representantes de todos los sectores de la...

Seismic Code Evaluation
Content Type: Resource
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

Recommended Structural Standard for Design and Construction for the Republic of Guatemala evaluating buildings to withstand seismic activity.
Confined and Internally Reinforced Concrete Block Masonry Building
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Earthquake Engineering Research InstituteInternational Association for Earthquake EngineeringWorld Housing Encyclopedia
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

Guidelines regarding housing typologies in Guatemala, with a special focus on confined masonry buildings with concrete blocks, tie-columns and beams. The February 1976 earthquake caused severe...

Normas Estructurales de Diseño y Construcción Recomendadas para la...
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): Asociacion Guatemalteca de Ingenieria Estructural y Sismica
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

Estas normas son requisitos mínimos para el diseño de obra nueva, para remodelación y/o reparación de obra existente y para la evaluación de la vulnerabilidad y potencial readecuación de obra...

Vivienda de Adobe (adobe brick house)
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Earthquake Engineering Research InstituteInternational Association for Earthquake EngineeringWorld Housing Encyclopedia
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

Guidelines regarding housing typologies in Guatemala, with a special focus on adobe brick house. Buildings made of adobe brick masonry can still be found in all parts of Guatemala both in rural...

Land Tenure and Land Administration Issues in Guatemala
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Spatial Information Science and Engineering
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

This report provides an overview of land tenure and land administration issues in Guatemala. The evolution of land tenure in Guatemala is a mix of the native Mayan Civilization’s hierarchical...

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