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Island Aid Advanced Hybrid Shelter Design Concept for Sumatra
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Island
Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

Rationale for moving from a t-shelter unit constructed completely from Bamboo to a technologically advanced permanent hybrid unit constructed from Interlocking Compressed Earth Blocks (ICEB) and...

Structural Mitigation of Disaster Risks
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): GOAL
Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

Mousini, an island in the Indian sunderbans Delta is extremely vulnerable to climate hazards. The presentation talks about GOAL's Disaster Risk Reduction interventions in the island with...

Temporary to Permanent; Challenges of Securing Educational Facilities
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies
Date: Dec 2009
Location: Global - Multiple countries

The presentation discusses the challenges of securing education facilities in situations like the recent earthquake in the Sumatra Islands and genocide in Rwanda.
Climatic resiliency for Indian cities
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Information and Research for Reconstruction (i-Rec)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: World

Resiliency means springing back into normalcy after being stretched. Climatic resiliency of Indian cities are gradually becoming distant-goal to reach. Reason being the some of the climatic...