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The Permatent Emergency Shelter cum Roofing Unit has been specially designed in Bangladesh for use in Bangladesh, particularly as disaster preparedness hardware for use in the cyclone high risk...
This paper discusses organisational initiatives for resettlement of rural communities that have lost their houses due to various natural calamities like river erosion, flood, cyclone etc, in...
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...
This paper contends that geomaterials have an important role to play in providing householders with the best resistance possible to the hazards which they can expect. An understanding of earth...
Every year thousands of houses are damaged by floods. Bangladesh is located on a delta - as a result, flooding is a common phenomenon in this region. The physical characteristic of the land also...
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...
A recent study (Ashfaque, 1997) reviews some of the low cost houses being constructed in Bangladesh and finds out the structural deficiencies in them. Also the structural performance of bamboo has...
This report describes the outcome of a number of workshops in the humanitarian sector.
Significant increases in load carrying capacity of brick masonry columns is possible through encasement in ferrocement plaster. This paper presents the test results performed on thirty-two axially...
This paper discusses the advantages of micro and small enterprises and their environmental benefits.