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    Still standing? : looking back at reconstruction and disaster risk reduction in housing / edited by Theo Schilderman and Eleanor Parker.

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    • Title:Still standing? : looking back at reconstruction and disaster risk reduction in housing / edited by Theo Schilderman and Eleanor Parker.
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    • Variant Title:Looking back at reconstruction and disaster risk reduction in housing
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Schilderman, Theo, editor.
      Parker, Eleanor, editor.
    • Published/Created:Rugby, UK : Practical Action Publishing, [2014]

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Emergency housing.
      Buildings--Repair and reconstruction.
      Architectural design--Technological innovations.
    • Medical Subjects: Relief Work
    • Description:xvi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
    • Summary: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. --Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781853398391 (hbk.)
      185339839X (hbk.)
      1853398403 (pbk.)
      9781853398407 (pbk.)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: What do we really know about the impact of reconstruction? / Theo Schilderman
      2. Emerging stronger? Assessing the outcomes of Habitat for Humanity's housing reconstruction programmes following the Indian Ocean tsunami / Jo da Silva
      3. Looking back at agency-driven housing reconstruction in India: Case studies from Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Tamil Nadu / Charanya Khandhadai
      pt. I Asian Case Studies
      4. market-based programme to improve housing in the mountains of northern Pakistan: Addressing seismic vulnerability / Charles Parrack
      5. India: Gandhi Nu Gam, an example of holistic and integrated reconstruction / Narendra Mangwani
      6. Challenges for sustainability: Introducing new construction technologies in post-tsunami Sri Lanka / S. Kamalaraj
      7. Reconstruction in Vietnam: Less to lose! Examples of the experience of Development Workshop France in Vietnam / John Norton
      8. Integrated people-driven reconstruction in Indonesia / Ashleigh King
      pt. II Latin American case studies
      9. Guatemala: Knowledge in the hands of the people / Kurt Rhyner
      10. Honduras: `La Betania', resettlement of a flooded neighbourhood / Kurt Rhyner
      11. Nicaragua: reconstruction with local resources in an isolated region / Kurt Rhyner
      12. roof for La Paz: reconstruction and development in El Salvador after the 2001 earthquakes / Jelly Mae Moring
      13. Peru: building on the vernacular / Max Watanabe
      14. Conclusions: How does our approach to reconstruction need to change? / Daniel Watson.
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