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Adobe mud blocks are one of the oldest and most widely used building materials. Use of these sun-dried blocks dates back to 8000 B. C. (Houben and Guillard 1994). The use of adobe is very common...
This hanbook aims at being used as a tool to reduce urban risk in small and medium sized cities by local schools, students, teachers, parents, resident associations and local government members,...
This second edition of the FEMA 154 Handbook provides a standard rapid visual screening procedure to identify, inventory, and rank buildings that are potentially seismically hazardous. The scoring...
This guidebook is designed to help you prepare your coastal community for tsunamis. This goes beyond preparing yourself and your loved ones. It means taking steps to educate your entire community...
This handbook provides a guide to using local lime for building projects, especially aimed at the field worker who is involved in the project investigation, planning, and implementation of small-...
In the Sahel countries of West Africa, 'Woodless Construction' refers to the construction of vault or dome roofed buildings using ordinary mud bricks. This three volume series of...
This guide presents in a brief, clear and direct manner, some important aspects related to floods.
Este manual apresenta de maneira sucinta, clara e directa, alguns aspectos importantes...
The present Catalogue of Items or Emergency Relief is the result of one such project, conducted by the Inter-Agency Procurement Services Office of the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP/...
This document is available in French. Ce document est également disponible en Français. Mainstreaming gender perspectives in camp coordination and camp management processes and activities...
This document is available in French. Ce document est également disponible en Français. In the initial stages of an emergency where populations have been displaced, shelter and site selection are...