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The Checklist-Based Guide to Identifying Critical Environmental Considerations in Emergency Shelter Site Selection, Construction, Management and Decommissioning provides an easy-to-use tool to...
This Manual for Action contains a wide cross-section of international legal standards and other resources addressing the practice of forced evictions. It has been designed to increase popular...
This booklet contains the full text of an important new international standard which outlines the rights of refugees and displaced persons to return not only to their countries when they see fit...
This guide first lays out the relevant building codes in force in Colombia for small and medium scale construction projects. Subsequent sections discuss factors affecting earthquake vulnerability...
This manual has been prepared to assist those who would like to try rammed earth building and get to know the technique and the equipment used so that they can build a simple structure for...
This case study demonstrates how the 10 flood-prone communities under four districts of Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Sirajganj and Tangail strongly understand the disaster risk reduction concerns...
This Scoping Study is part of DFID's strategic effort to assess the significance of disaster risk in its development work. It aims to explore evidence on linkages between poverty alleviation...
This document has been created to provide a basic framework for professional stress management trainers. As such, Part One contains the most essential elements required for trainers dealing with...
The work attempts mainly to illustrate both general means of production and actual physical techniques, as well as their economic implications. It aims more to be an aid to decision-making than to...
With its attractive layout and the answers it provides to all the practical questions that site practitioners might ask, this book seeks to impart confidence in a construction technology, which is...