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This guideline was prepared by Svetlana Brzev for the National Information Center of Earthquake Engineering in India for distribution in India and other developing countries. It was written for...
This publication provides frameworks around how to conceptualise risk. It also highlights tools and general best practice for undertaking risk assessment and disaster risk reduction.
Following international interventions in Bosnia-Herzegovina1 and Iraq, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have played a central role in delivering humanitarian relief, encouraging participation...
Preventing displacement is obviously a worthwhile objective. Being displaced puts people at a higher risk of being both impoverished and unable to enjoy their human rights. Such a situation is...
Issues around restitution of housing and property to refugees and the internally displaced wishing to return to their original homes have attracted increasing attention in recent years.
This guide looks at the use of bamboo as a building material. Topics includes: botanical classification, harvesting, storage and drying, the properties of bamboo, the working of bamboo, treatment...
This report focuses on post-earthquake housing reconstruction by consolidating the qualitative and quantitative data collected within the framework of this project together with a review of...
This architecture essay explores possible modifications to expand the use of the Oxfam Emergency Shelter (SES2).
Shelter SES2 is an emergency shelter designed to house refugees in disaster...
There is a long overdue requirement for urban multi-storey and self-build small buildings to improve the standard of their construction. After almost every urban earthquake, the call goes out for...
Risk management is inspired by the anticipated reduction oflosses (human and material) that natural hazards may cause inthe future. It is a policy by means of which the possibility oflosses is...