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In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of humanitarian responses where cash has been used to help facilitate shelter & housing reconstruction. To encourage a broader...
The key findings and lessons learned in New Orleans are presented in Chapter 4. These include: the importance of resilient building systems and back-up power and water, internal self-sufficiency...
Plenty is known about the capacity of people and their organisations to create and improve their own shelter. Much less is known about the links between government and commercial private interests...
The report looks at disasters primarily through an economic lens. Economists emphasize self-interest to explain how people choose the amount of prevention, insurance, and coping. But lenses can...
Effective information management underpins the work of OCHA, particularly its coordination andadvocacy functions. For example, strategic and operational decision making and prioritizationrequire...
Per ADS Chapter 303, the closeout of a grant or cooperative agreement is defined as œthe process bywhich AID determines that all applicable administrative actions and all required work of the...
The consequences of living in hazard-prone areas were brought home by graphic television coverage of the hurricanes that devastated the Gulf coast of the USA in 2005. Hurricane Katrina, in...
Summarizes information on wood as an engineering material. Presents properties of wood and wood-based products of particular concern to the architect and engineer. Includes discussion of designing...
The design procedure included in the Peru new Masonry Design Code called “Norma E.070”
(SENCICO 2006) for confined masonry buildings is presented. This procedure is based on
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