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This presentation provides an earthquake risk assessment of Mandalay city in Myanmar. It identifies areas of potentially high seismic risk, which will allow national and local authorities to make...

Content Type: Resource
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Somalia

How do we undertake shelter and reconstruction programs in countries where land and property ownership issues are understood through customary and religious law? What new forms of ownership,...

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Zimbabwe

Overview of Zimbabwe's Department of Civil Protection disaster managment policy and institutions.

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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Southern Africa

As a result of Apartheid, there are millions of displaced communities living in South African informal settlements. Although Government launched the ‘In-situ Upgrading of Informal Settlements’...

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Publisher(s): UK Shelter Forum
Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

Architectural practices, engineering firms, and manufacturers have been ingenuous when designing shelters without repercussion in the field. Why have these innovative solutions been widely...

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Publisher(s): UK Shelter Forum
Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

Housing and sanitation are often approached as two separate problems. With much debate surrounding the equitable and inclusive design and procurement of housing this often falls short of...

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Publisher(s): UK Shelter Forum
Date: Feb 2014
Location: India

Here is a presentation of a classroom building project in a stone quarry worker settlement in Navi Mumbai, India as a case study for demonstrating the notion of architectural collaboration as a...

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Publisher(s): UK Shelter Forum
Date: Feb 2014
Location: India

My research is relevant to any reconstruction or upgrading scheme working with an existing neighbourhood. Working within a ‘slum upgrading’ scheme in Agra, ‘cultural heritage preservation’ has...

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Publisher(s): UK Shelter Forum
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Chile

Chilean heritage areas were the most affected after the 2010 earthquake (8.8 in Richter scale), mainly due to poor maintenance and scarce funding, but also because of applied reconstruction...

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