Planning centralised building waste management programmes in response to large disasters

Type Guidelines
Language English
Pages: 46
Uploader Wilfred Williamson
Publisher(s) Shelter Centre, ProAct
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Location(s) World
Author(s) Joseph Ashmore, Maoya Bassiouni, Martin Bjerregard, Tom Corsellis, Igor Fedotov, Heiner Gloor, Dave Hodgkin, Orlando Hughes, Ivan Ivanov, Charles Kelly, Manoucher Lolachi, Sajjad Malik, Paul Neale, David Stone, Karen Walker, Grant Wroe-Street and Jake Zarins.
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This booklet is a short guide for shelter practitioners with little experience of centralised disaster waste settings, mainly in response to large disasters. It highlights key issues and priorities of disaster waste management in different settings. It provides simple examples of re-use and recycling of building waste materials in temporary and permanent shelter programmes. Further reading and other sources of more in-depth information are provided.