Developing Building for Safety Programmes

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.

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.