Still Standing?: Looking Back at Reconstruction and Disaster Risk Reduction in Housing - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853398403 ISBN 13 : 9781853398407

Editeur : Practical Action Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Huge levels of aid are spent on reconstructing housing after disasters. Have these houses withstood the test of time and hazard? Just as important from the point of view of their owners, has the reconstruction process played a part in restoring their livelihoods and social networks? Unfortunately, aid agencies rarely go back to assess the impact of reconstruction in the longer term. The research upon which Still Standing? is based has done just that. Agencies that undertook projects 3-35 years ago in countries throughout Asia and Latin America have gone back to record changes and to interview beneficiaries, builders, authorities and other agencies in their project areas.This book describes the stories of the project beneficiaries and how their houses have changed, within contexts that have kept changing too. Still Standing? is essential reading for architects and engineers involved in humanitarian fieldwork as well as students and researchers concerned with disaster risk reduction.

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À propos des auteurs

Theo Schilderman is a Senior Researcher at the Building and Social Housing Foundation, UK. He is an architect with over 40 years' experience of low-cost housing and reconstruction in developing countries.

Eleanor Parker is a principal lecturer in the department of Geography, Environment and Disaster Management, Coventry University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Practical Action Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1853398403
• ISBN 13: 9781853398407
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Schilderman Theo, Parker Eleanor
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• Personne responsable: non disponible