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This small book on low cost housing is the product of his vast and varied experiences. The reader can find out for himself how practical and earthly his observations are. One key observation that...
Community, environment and disaster risk management, volume 1. This book portrays lessons from innovative urban risk management approaches in Asian cities, drawn from seven Asian countries. The...
This Housing report looks at housing typologies in India, with a focus on rural mud houses with a pitched roof.
This is a typical rural construction found throughout India, except in the...
This housing report looks at housing typologies in India, with a focus on the traditional Naga type house.
The housing type is most common throughout the Northeast India which lies in the...
The beginning of the 20st century was marked in India by two major disasters. In January 2001 a severe earthquake stroke Gujarat. Less than four years later the Indian Ocean tsunami hit coastal...
This report discusses the experiences of its member agencies on family shelter reconstruction programmes post Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh. It aims to record what was implemented and to provide a...
Sri Lanka - J. C. Nimmi's story: from transitional shelter to her new home
As the tsunamis swept across vast tracts of land around the Bay of Bengal, they took with them virtually...
This report is looking at housing typologies in India, with a focus on the Assam-type house.
Assam-type houses are commonly found in the northeastern states of India. Generally, it is a...
Guidelines with a participatory approach to safe shelter awareness (PASSA, which aims to raise the awareness of the ‘everyday vulnerable’ of the ‘everyday risks’ related to communities built...
Matti Kuittinen from Finn Church Aid / Aalto University presented "Assessment of sustainable development in humanitarian construction" at Shelter Meeting 12a.
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