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Asia is the most disaster-prone continent and low-income communities in many countries are highly vulnerable to the impact of hazards. In this paper post-disaster shelter reconstruction projects...
Disasters had great affects on the region and community that they occurred physically, socially, economically and psychologically. The community sometimes uses most of its capacity to overcome the...
In emergency conditions, the realization of a settlement develops according to an unplanned process then affecting the transformation - often permanent - of places through the imposition of...
Many structures currently in use have been built adopting traditional practices. In recent years, the role of intermediate construction technology has emerged, and this trend has led to the...
Prefabrication is usually associated with one of the two prevailing approaches to post-disaster reconstruction, the top-down approach. However, this is based on a narrow view of prefabrication,...
Reconstruction projects, such as those conducted in Sudan since 2004, need an effective multidisciplinary planning and management framework, capable of responding to transitional and long-term...
Small municipalities in developing countries often find that procuring new low cost housing to relocate families living in disaster-prone areas is largely constrained by political, economical and...
The beginning of the 20st century was marked in India by two major disasters. In January 2001 a severe earthquake stroke Gujarat. Less than four years later the Indian Ocean tsunami hit coastal...
The increased occurrence of natural disasters over the years have led to greater awareness of their impacts and the need to be prepared. New Zealand has encountered tsunamis, earthquakes and...
The problem of post-disaster reconstruction goes unavoidably through the phase of transitional living. To build for temporariness is first of all a cultural issue and today can be interpreted...