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Managing Post-Disaster conservation of Heritage buildings in order to help preserve culture and history.
The Sumatra 30 September 2009 earthquake has damaged hundred thousand buildings in West Sumatra Province. The earthquake is located in 100 km offshore of Padang City, the Capital City of the...
This research in Building Ethiopia - Sustainability and Innovation in Architecture and Design (volume I) poses an attempt to understand the dwelling typologies in the city of Addis Ababa in order...
This technical brief looks at the role of contigency planning and emergency preparedness in early response based on RELPA-ELMT program experiences. The history of contigency planning in the region...
This article in Building Ethiopia - Sustainability and Innovation in Architecture and Design (volume I) takes a look on the capital of Ethiopia as an ideal situation where the urban phenomena of...
This article in Building Ethiopia - Sustainability and Innovation in Architecture and Design (Volume I) discusses the implementation of two vaulting construction techniques in the context of...
This book presents stories of real communities in three countries struggling with conflict,
drought management and loss of lives and property through floods. It provides a context
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This sheet gives figures and information on the achievements and the challenges the members of the shelter and non-food-items cluster has been facing in Haiti. In addition, it give some...
The case study about Haiti in this edition of 'Shelter Projects' reflects the on-going challenges posed by responses to the complex emergency in Haiti
A short video regarding IFRCs work in Port-au-Prince where they are building transitional shelters for 350 families.