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Following disaster, keeping families in their homes, or at least in their communities, is preferable to the alternative of evacuating them. As well as reducing temporary accommodation and...
Small municipalities in developing countries often find that procuring new low cost housing to relocate families living in disaster-prone areas is largely constrained by political, economical and...
Asia is the most disaster-prone continent and low-income communities in many countries are highly vulnerable to the impact of hazards. In this paper post-disaster shelter reconstruction projects...
Prefabrication is usually associated with one of the two prevailing approaches to post-disaster reconstruction, the top-down approach. However, this is based on a narrow view of prefabrication,...
UNITE is an innovative tent designed for disasters. Its hard shell container provides lockable storage within the tent when erected. Pictograms, colour coding and simple twist and lock mechanisms...
This paper presents a framework for a multi-weather hazard early warning system for application over the Bay of Bengal primarily focusing on Myanmar. First it briefly describes the history of...
Availability of modern transit system reflects the image of the society but occurrence of natural disasters states significant, preventable planning and management failures. The transportation...
Disasters had great affects on the region and community that they occurred physically, socially, economically and psychologically. The community sometimes uses most of its capacity to overcome the...
In emergency conditions, the realization of a settlement develops according to an unplanned process then affecting the transformation - often permanent - of places through the imposition of...
Many structures currently in use have been built adopting traditional practices. In recent years, the role of intermediate construction technology has emerged, and this trend has led to the...