Esther Charlesworth, Iftekhar Ahmed

Sustainable Housing Reconstruction

Designing Resilient Housing After Natural Disasters

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides professionals, policy makers and community stakeholders working in the international development and disaster risk management sectors, with an evidence-based exploration of how to add real value through the design process in housing reconstruction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 221mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780415702607
• ISBN-10: 0415702607
• Artikelnr.: 41611889

Autorenporträt

Esther Charlesworth is Associate Professor and the Director of the Humanitarian Architecture Research Bureau (HARB) in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Esther is the Founding Director of Architects Without Frontiers (AWF). Her most recent book, Humanitarian Architecture: 15 Stories of Architects Working after Disaster, was published by Routledge in 2014. Iftekhar Ahmed is a Research Fellow in the Humanitarian Architecture Research Bureau (HARB), School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests span the areas of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, urbanisation and community development.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Learning from the Shelter Sector Graham Saunders Part 1: More
than a Roof Overhead Part 2: Achievements in Housing Reconstruction Despite
Mounting Odds Bushfires: Australia Cyclone: Bangladesh Earthquake: Haiti
Tsunami: Sri Lanka Hurricane: USA Typhoon: Vietnam Conclusion: What is
Sustainable Reconstruction after Natural Disaster? Bibliography Index