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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...

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This paper looks at wind hazard zones in Bangladesh and how they can be protected against the wind.

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This paper seeks to show that upgradation of rural markets to growth centers, by providing necessary infrastructures, improves rural economy as a whole.

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This study describes the role of women in repairing and maintaining their houses and how education can help them to create more resilient housing.

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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

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...

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