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This paper describes the management of disaster relief post the Orissa Cyclone.
Most government or external initiatives have traditionally paid little attention to addressing the underlying causes of vulnerability cause by cyclonic storm. The management practice and modes of...
The examples on which I will draw include those of Alto Mayo where 7, 000 homes were rebuilt after the 1990 earthquake and the regional reconstruction Program undertaken by the Corporation...
In this paper a set of models are developed using neural network (NN) technique. It is observed that NN technique can be applied successfully to predict the casualties and damages caused by...
This paper attempts to focus on three issues - finding out the patterns of ethnic housing; assessing the relation between housing pattern and ecological system; analysing resistance capacity and...
The Housing & Hazards Group (H&H) piloted a series of Building for Safety workshops during its first field study in 1997 (Carter, 1997). The study was connected in Sundurban Union,...