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This paper discusses organisational initiatives for resettlement of rural communities that have lost their houses due to various natural calamities like river erosion, flood, cyclone etc, in...
This paper looks at wind hazard zones in Bangladesh and how they can be protected against the wind.
This paper seeks to show that upgradation of rural markets to growth centers, by providing necessary infrastructures, improves rural economy as a whole.
This study describes the role of women in repairing and maintaining their houses and how education can help them to create more resilient housing.
To reduce vulnerabilities to future earthquakes, it is very important to have a clear understanding of how and why the buildings failed in the previous one. This knowledge is necessary to...
Active volcanoes are dynamically evolving structures, the life-cycles of which are punctuated by episodes of flank instability and lateral failure. Such behaviour is now recognised as ubiquitous...
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...
This paper provides information on the sub-national areas (regions/districts/provinces) most vulnerable to climate change impacts in Southeast Asia. This assessment was carried out by overlaying...
Reflections on the role of the educational community in risk management. This document aims to prompt reflection on what exactly constitutes as a safe school: offering a resistible infrastructure...
The case studies provide a range of ideas and measures that have positively influenced the development of low-income settlements in the past in order to provide inspiration for current and future...