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During the last forty years, several development agencies such as the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, the United States Agency for International Development, and the...
For the first time, FSA 2003 will help the stakeholders in Pakistan understand the fact that food security is not only a function of the availability (physical access) of food but it is a...
The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, the Universidad de los Andes, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Acción Social jointly convened a seminar on the role of...
Following the violent eruptions of the Soufriere Hills volcano in 1995 the Island of Montserrat suffered extensive damage and loss to its housing stock. The post disaster reconstruction Program...
This report presents a review on non-engineered buildings, that at present make up a substantial part of the Latin American residential fabric. Within the different self-construction practices,...
The long written history claims that disaster events have resulted worldwide in dreadful damages during the past thousand years. In 1999, Turkey faced two major earthquakes -7. 4 and 7. 2 Richter...
The past ten years or so has seen a rapid increase in the number and size of non-profitorganisations involved in development work, commonly known as NGOs (Non-governmentalOrganisations). This...
The seismic performance of the few masonry structures present in the Kobe area and subjected to the severeHyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake is a minor concern when compared to the overwhelming damage...
Rapid change In rural Africa raises new policy problems In dealing with mass influxes of rural refugees. Self-settlement in agriculture has become less feasible and is less acceptable now that Its...
This document identifies and analyses the global risks which arise from extreme geophysical events. 'On a vast scale, global geophysical events (GGEs) are natural phenomena capable of having...