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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...
The unprecedented scale of recent earthquakes in Chile, Haiti and Japan underlines the importance of having the body of knowledge and best practices easily available for affected governments in...
These notes are the body of knowledge and best practices easily available for affected governments in order to assist them in making crucial decisions for post-earthquake recovery and...
Some 20 million tonnes of waste resulted from the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE). The amount of debris in Iwate Prefecture was 11 times greater than in a normal year, and in Miyagi 19 times...
This presentation covers three aspects of bamboo production and its use in sustainable construction: 1) traditional uses of bamboo architecture 2) challenges to make them mainstream, and 3) good...