Disaster management and the built environment [electronic resource]
Amaratunga, Dilanthi
Disaster management and the built environment [electronic resource] - London Emerald Group Publishing 2009 - eBook
Attaining improved resilience to floods: a proactive multi-stakeholder approach -- Mainstreaming gender in disaster reduction: why and how? -- Supporting urban emergency response and recovery using RFID-based building assessment -- Raising preparedness by risk analysis of post-disaster homelessness and improvement of emergency shelters -- Towards a more ?robust? technology? Capacity building in post-tsunami Sri Lanka -- The role of knowledge management in post-disaster housing reconstruction
This e-book draws on the wide range of expertise that built environment professionals can contribute towards increasing resilience to disasters. It compiles original papers which were prepared for a panel of the Building Education and Research Conference, held in Kandalama, Sri Lanka, between 11th and 15th February 2008. The papers address different stages of the disaster management lifecycle, from pre-disaster risk reduction, through to post-disaster response and relief, and finally, long term sustainable reconstruction.
9781848555358
EBOOK
ENGLAND AND WALES
658.2
Disaster management and the built environment [electronic resource] - London Emerald Group Publishing 2009 - eBook
Attaining improved resilience to floods: a proactive multi-stakeholder approach -- Mainstreaming gender in disaster reduction: why and how? -- Supporting urban emergency response and recovery using RFID-based building assessment -- Raising preparedness by risk analysis of post-disaster homelessness and improvement of emergency shelters -- Towards a more ?robust? technology? Capacity building in post-tsunami Sri Lanka -- The role of knowledge management in post-disaster housing reconstruction
This e-book draws on the wide range of expertise that built environment professionals can contribute towards increasing resilience to disasters. It compiles original papers which were prepared for a panel of the Building Education and Research Conference, held in Kandalama, Sri Lanka, between 11th and 15th February 2008. The papers address different stages of the disaster management lifecycle, from pre-disaster risk reduction, through to post-disaster response and relief, and finally, long term sustainable reconstruction.
9781848555358
EBOOK
ENGLAND AND WALES
658.2