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This volume debates and informs on themes such as housing, participation, and vulnerability in relation to large-scale post-disaster reconstruction. It is a contribution to ongoing debate in terms...

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Publisher(s): UK Shelter Forum
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Chile

Chilean heritage areas were the most affected after the 2010 earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale), mainly due to poor maintenance and scarce funding, but also because of applied reconstruction...

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Publisher(s): UK Shelter Forum
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Chile

This presentation exposes the relevance of disaster management by governments in order to preserve their representativeness with people. The lack of reconstruction policies and aid in disaster...

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Publisher(s): UK Shelter Forum
Date: Feb 2014
Location: El Salvador, Brazil

Sometimes you fall upon things. The talk will focus on the observation (and the findings) of a (short) 10 day initial research trip to Parque S. Bartolomeu in Salvador da Bahia, Brasil where we...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Brazil

If for any reason you have decided to use flush toilets at your project and are not connected to a mains sewage treatment system, then it is most likely that you will have an underground septic...

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Date: Feb 2014

Bamboo as a green building material.
Project of the Handmade School in Bangladesh.

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Date: Feb 2014

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.

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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

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This publication of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement provides the first comprehensive analysis of the role of the Colombian Constitutional Court in addressing the situation of...

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The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, the Universidad de los Andes, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Acción Social jointly convened a seminar on the role of...

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