Rebuilding After Disasters: From Emergency to Sustainability is an essential text for decision makers, students, and researchers in the fields of architecture, social sciences, engineering, planning, geography, and disaster recovery.
Rebuilding After Disasters emphasizes the role of the built environment in the re-establishment of lives and sustainable livelihoods after disasters. In this text, expert contributors explain the principle challenges facing professionals and practitioners in the building industry.
Disasters are not natural. Natural events such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, etc. become disasters because of the fragile relations that exist between the natural, human and built environments. Sadly, major disasters will always occur in towns and cities in the developing world where...
Published August 5th 2009 by Routledge
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