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A shelter case study on materials distribution and training after the Guatemala earthquake 1976.

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

This paper reports on what happened to earthen structures in twenty-six Guatemalan communities studied over a four-year period since the 1976 earthquake.

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

The Evaluation Office of the UNDP conducts independent country-level evaluations called Assessment of Development Results (ADR) which assess the relevance and strategic positioning of UNDP's...

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USAID Country profile for Guatemala, with a speacial focus on property rights and resource governance.

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Publisher(s): Women in Development
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

This manual identifies and validates places in the process available for women and finds other places where women may become more fully involved in the land legalization process so that they may...

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Publisher(s): Elsevier
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

Migration to the United States of America from Guatemala effects many aspects of Guatemalan life. This report document, through extensive ethnographic fieldwork, how migrants and their remittances...

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Guidelines regarding housing typologies in Guatemala, with a special focus on adobe construction with sawn timber roof framing and corrugated iron sheeting. This very small building doubles as a...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

Landslides occur at a high frequency throughout the mountainous regions of Guatemala, posing an elevated risk to communities and their infrastructure. A crucial component of the analysis of...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

Map of the predicted lava flow and hazard zones of Fuego Volcano in Guatemala.

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Guatemala

This report describes the kinds of hazardous events that occur at volcanoes in general and the kinds of hazardous geologic events that have occurred at Acatenango and Fuego in the past. The report...

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