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The Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment in Disaster (REA) is a tool to identify, define, and prioritize potential environmental impacts in disaster situations. A simple, consensus-based...
The aim of this report is to develop with the international aid and development community, an understanding of the nature and needs of transitional shelter following conflict and natural disaster...
These guidelines aim to support the fieldworker in establishing the necessity for and overseeing the construction of multi-purpose buildings to be used in a range of emergency situations. The...
A comparative analysis of the organisational designs of four different housing projects that shows the participation of users in up-front decision-making and the results in terms of building...
Livelihood thinking dates back to the work of Robert Chambers in the mid-1980s. In realisingthat conventional development concepts did not yield the desired effects and that humankind...
The below map outlines the estimated population exposed to the 8. 8 MagnitudeEarthquake that hit Chile on the 27th February 2010.
A field reconnaissance in Haiti by a five-member team with expertise in seismology and earthquake engineering has revealed a number of factors that led to catastrophic losses of life and property...
This book seeks to demonstrate how disaster risk management and adaptation could be better integrated into urban development planning (i. e. social housing, slum upgrading and urban governance...
On December 26th 2004 a major earthquake caused a Tsunami in the region of the Indian Ocean. The epicentre of the quake lay offshore the Indonesian Island of Sumatra close to its neighbouring...