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Meetings and conferences
In person
19 July 2011 - 21 July 2011
Dambulla

International conference on building resilience: Interdisciplinary approaches to disaster risk reduction, and the development of sustainable communities and cities

With growing population and infrastructures, the world’s exposure to hazards – of natural and man-made origin – is inevitably increasing. This reality reinforces the need to proactively consider disaster risk as a part of the sustainable development agenda. The international conference on building resilience will encourage debate on individual, in…
Publication

Building back better: delivering people-centred housing reconstruction at scale

This book addresses the growing demand for reconstruction at scale following devastating impact of disasters on the world's population on the increase, influenced by climate change, urbanization, and persistent high levels of poverty, among other factors. It asks: (i) whether large-scale reconstruction can be participatory and developmental; (ii) if reb…

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