Developing Building for Safety Programmes: Guidelines for Organizing Safe Building Programmes in Disaster-Prone Areas

Aysan, Yasemin (Editor)/ Clayton, Andrew/ Cory, Alistair/ Davis, Ian/ Aysan, Yasemin

ISBN 10: 1853391840 / ISBN 13: 9781853391842

Published by Intermediate Technology, 1993

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159 pages. 9.50x6.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Developing Building for Safety Programmes: Guidelines for Organizing Safe Building Programmes in Disaster-Prone Areas
• Publisher: Intermediate Technology
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853391840
• ISBN 13: 9781853391842
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.36 kilograms

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Synopsis

Developing Building for Safety Programmes summarizes the basic principles to be considered in the planning and implementation of community-based building improvement programmes for small dwellings in disaster-prone areas. Including case studies illustrating suggestions made. These guidelines for safe building improvement programmes in disaster-prone areas cover a range of topics and emphasize that the constraints on the building of dwellings are complex interactive procedures.The relationships between technical, social, economic and political considerations is rarely clear - particularly when seen from the standpoint of the builder or occupier.

About the Author

Ian Davis is currently Senior Professor in Disaster Risk Management for Sustainable Development in Lund University, Sweden and Visiting Professor in Cranfield, Oxford Brookes and Kyoto Universities.