Planning for Community-based Disaster Resilience Worldwide
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Bringing together 26 case studies from six continents, this volume provides a unique resource which discusses, in considerable depth, the multifaceted matrix of natural and human-made disasters. It examines their bearing on the loss of human and productive capital; the conduct of national policies and the setting of national development priorities; as well as on the nature of international aid and bilateral assistance strategies and programs of donor countries.

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Bringing together 26 case studies from six continents, this volume provides a unique resource which discusses, in considerable depth, the multifaceted matrix of natural and human-made disasters. It examines their bearing on the loss of human and productive capital; the conduct of national policies and the setting of national development priorities; as well as on the nature of international aid and bilateral assistance strategies and programs of donor countries.
Autorenporträt
Adenrele Awotona, Professor of Urban Planning and Community Studies, is the founder and Director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters, and a former Dean of the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. He was previously a Director of Studies for the British Council International Seminars ("Reconstruction after disasters") in the United Kingdom, where he has also served at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne as a Director of Graduate Studies in architecture and urban design. Furthermore, he was an Educator/Coordinator of Seminars (on community architecture) at the annual American Institute of Architects National Conventions for several years.