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Title Rebuilding after disasters : from emergency to sustainability / edited by Gonzalo Lizarralde, Cassidy Johnson, and Colin Davidson ; preface by Hernando de Soto.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Spon Press, 2010.

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 Harper Library - Circulating Collection  HV554.5 .R42 2010    Available
Description ix, 283 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Table of contents -- Rebuilding after disasters : from emergency to sustainability -- Post-disaster low-cost housing solutions : learning from the poor -- Appropriate technology for post-disaster reconstruction -- Planning for temporary housing -- Multi-actor arrangements and project management -- Stakeholder participation in post-disaster reconstruction programmes : New Orleans' Lakeview : a case study -- Surviving the second tsunami : land rights in the face of buffer zones, land grabs and development -- Who governs reconstruction? Changes and continuity in policies, practices and outcomes -- The politics of participation : involving communitites in post-disaster reconstruction -- User requirements and responsible reconstruction -- Space and place after natural disasters and forced displacement -- The importance of institutional and community resilience in post-disaster reconstruction -- From complexity to strategic planning for sustainable reconstruction.
Subject Emergency housing.
Emergency management.
Disaster victims -- Care.
Humanitarian assistance.
Sustainable development.
Building -- Superintendence.
Added Author Lizarralde, Gonzalo, 1974-
Johnson, Cassidy, 1975-
Davidson, Colin H.
ISBN 0415472547 (hardcover)
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