Structural safety

April 2009, vol. 2 no 1:

A newsletter addressing disaster risk, health and health facility, and structural safety issues including articles and interviews with Claude De Ville de Goyet and Amod Mani Dixit, and an article on how Indonesia is dealing with

Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has emphasized the need to address future prevention before rescue, 'calling for improvements to flood prevention safety and construction techniques' according to the Taiwan News...

World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, Technical Committee Session C:

In the first part of this document, four authors give presentations on the characteristics of disasters in metropolitan areas; the relation between environmental degradation

A/CONF.172/11/Add.5:

This paper addresses the consideration that prevention is better than cure: that planning to minimize the effects of natural hazards is preferable to responding to the often disastrous effects of such hazards.

This paper is a

Records and outcomes of the International Symposium 2008 on Earthquake Safe Housing, 28-29 November 2008, Tokyo, Japan:

This document illustrates the work of the Housing Earthquake Safety Initiative (HESI), which goal is to improve structural safety of

This book shares with the humanitarian community over thirty case studies of completed emergency and transitional shelter projects. The project summaries included aim to illustrate some of the shelter project options available to organisations working in

This book is concerned with the effects of natural hazards on the urban environment and the steps which can be taken by governments, other organizations and individuals, particularly of the world's great conurbations, or megacities, to mitigate those

Medair’s DRR team is helping the most vulnerable villages in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province protect themselves in the event of 'natural' disasters. 'It is so important to increase the awareness of the villagers' said Kaihan Majeed, Senior Coordinator...