Disaster management and the built environment

✍ Scribed by Dilanthi Amaratunga; Richard Haigh

Publisher: Emerald
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 79
Series: Disaster prevention and management, v. 18, no. 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 2
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD......Page 5
Guest editorial......Page 6
Attaining improved resilience to floods: a proactive multi-stakeholder approach......Page 10
Mainstreaming gender in disaster reduction: why and how?......Page 24
Supporting urban emergency response and recovery using RFID-based building assessment......Page 36
Raising preparedness by risk analysis of post-disaster homelessness and improvement of emergency shelters......Page 50
Towards a more “robust” technology? Capacity building in post-tsunami Sri Lanka......Page 56
The role of knowledge management in post-disaster housing reconstruction......Page 67
Special issue Editorial Board......Page 79

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