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Building Back Better. Delivering people-centred housing...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Practical Action
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Kenya, El Salvador, Colombia, Peru, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Turkey

This volume debates and informs on themes such as housing, participation, and vulnerability in relation to large-scale post-disaster reconstruction. It is a contribution to ongoing debate in terms...

Responding to urban disasters: Learning from previous relief and...
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP)ProVention Consortium
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haiti, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Japan, Turkey, United States of America

Disaster response in an urban environment presents a wide variety of challenges. Humanitarian organisations often have more experience of disaster response in rural settings, and local authorities...

The Future of the Oxfam Emergency Shelter: An architecture essay
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): St. John's College, Cambridge
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Algeria, El Salvador, Turkey

This architecture essay explores possible modifications to expand the use of the Oxfam Emergency Shelter (SES2).

Shelter SES2 is an emergency shelter designed to house refugees in disaster...

Building climate and disaster resilience into city planning and...
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Africa, Bahrain, Cyprus, Eastern Asia, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, State of Palestine, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

This paper presents an integrated analytic framework for tackling climate change through mainstreaming disaster risk management into overall development planning in urban areas. It discusses the...