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This review focuses on woody bamboos with the highest diversity recorded in the Asia-Pacific region where bamboos play a major role in ecosystem dynamics in many forests.
This work is a first step towards quantifying existing resources of bamboo. Knowledge of the magnitude and distribution of these resources is a necessary precursor to planning and implementing...
Disaster response in an urban environment presents a wide variety of challenges. Humanitarian organisations often have more experience of disaster response in rural settings, and local authorities...
This document was prepared for œArchitecture for Humanity? in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. It is intended to provide some general recommendations for improved building practices in...
The maximum loss to life and property in the Asian Region, due to frequent occurrence of natural disasters, dictates the need for the evolution of safer habitat, which can respond and resist the...
In this paper a set of models are developed using neural network (NN) technique. It is observed that NN technique can be applied successfully to predict the casualties and damages caused by...
This paper attempts to focus on three issues - finding out the patterns of ethnic housing; assessing the relation between housing pattern and ecological system; analysing resistance capacity and...
This paper discusses the advantages of micro and small enterprises and their environmental benefits.
This paper through an empirical survey, investigated the implications of infrastructure investment on rural housing development and village environment.
Bangladesh is a disaster prone country which has been facing perennial problems of natural disasters. Most houses in the rural areas in Bangladesh are of non-engineered roof construction which...