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Case study on what can be done to reduce the impact of natural diasters at the community level.
Case study wrote by Philip Hirsch and Khamla Phanvilay that deals with community-based natural resource management and watershed resource conflict in Lao PDR. These crucial points enter in the...
This study aims to (1) assess the context in which agricultural foreign direct investments take place, (2) identify characteristic features of the process, (3) assess the early impacts of the...
In many countries around the world, building and bridge structures with close proximity to known earthquake faults have been constructed with little consideration to the effects of strong ground...
This report examines the nature and scope of the housing problem, the housing sector and the financial sector in Indonesia. It describes the structure, patterns, trends, characteristics and...
A case study regarding shelter construction in Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis in 2008. It provides an overview of the humanitarian operation after the disaster, with an emhpazise on strengths and...
A case study on the series of earthquakes that struck West Sumatra in 2009. It analyses West Sumatras conditions before and after the earthquake, the response capacity, emergency response,...
This Urban Desk Study has been commissioned to provide guidance to PMI on best practice
in dense urban response. More specifically where possible the study aims to provide
guidance to...
A report with multiple case studies regarding tenur insecurity and Inequality in the land sector. Divided into development of the legal framework, access to titling, dispute resolution and State...
This case study is derived from the experience of the Community-Based Flood Mitigation and Preparedness Project (CBFMP) (1998-2001). It features the development of an organizational framework for...