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This revised Handbook incorporates new and significant developments while refining and improving the methodology for damage assessment contained in several sections included in the first version...
Shelter Projects 2010 is the third annual compilation of shelter programmes. This book contains summaries of shelter projects that have been implemented in response to conflicts, complex...
The Disaster Relief Shelter, known as DRS, is designed to serve as a responsive but also a
transitional shelter for victims of natural disasters in Indonesia.
This report uses the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 as the basis for describing "enabling" strategies and processes in the field of shelter provision and improvement. A...
This report examines the nature and scope of the housing problem in Peru. It reviews the evolution of the housing finance systems and main players of the housing finance system and driving forces...
The unprecedented scale of recent earthquakes in Chile, Haiti and Japan underlines the importance of having the body of knowledge and best practices easily available for affected governments in...
Sometimes you fall upon things. The talk will focus on the observation (and the findings) of a (short) 10 day initial research trip to Parque S. Bartolomeu in Salvador da Bahia, Brasil where we...
This report evaluates the housing finance mechanism in Chile, with special attention to the issues of affordability, efficiency, effectiveness and stability.
To Improve the well-being of the producers and
users of bamboo and rattan within the context of a
sustainable bamboo and rattan resource base
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...