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The Disaster Relief Shelter, known as DRS, is designed to serve as a responsive but also a
transitional shelter for victims of natural disasters in Indonesia.
This academic study aims at sensitizing practitioners and stakeholders involved in postdisaster
reconstruction about the advantages of employing renewable energy and
alternative...
This construction guide was one of the tools
used by CRS and partners to ensure quality
construction of houses under this project.
To Improve the well-being of the producers and
users of bamboo and rattan within the context of a
sustainable bamboo and rattan resource base
This project built one conventional and one modern bamboo building in both Kenya and Uganda, trained over 60 people on bamboo cultivation, management and construction, and conducted feasibility,...
The study advances arguments for considering bamboo stands as forests under UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol, in IPCC reports, and future agreements on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
International Network for Bamboo and Rattan
This review focuses on woody bamboos with the highest diversity recorded in the Asia-Pacific region where bamboos play a major role in ecosystem dynamics in many forests.
This work is a first step towards quantifying existing resources of bamboo. Knowledge of the magnitude and distribution of these resources is a necessary precursor to planning and implementing...
This document provides information on growing bamboo