Still Standing?

Looking Back at Reconstruction and Disaster Risk Reduction in Housing

By: Theo Schilderman (Editor), Eleanor Parker (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 October 2014

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280 Pages

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23.62 x 15.75 x 2.03

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$139.34

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Huge levels of aid are spent on reconstructing housing after disasters. Have these houses withstood the test of time and hazard? Just as important from the point of view of their owners, has the reconstruction process played a part in restoring their livelihoods and social networks?

Unfortunately, aid agencies rarely go back to assess the impact of reconstruction in the longer term. The research upon which Still Standing? is based has done just that. Agencies that undertook projects 3-35 years ago in countries throughout Asia and Latin America have gone back to record changes and to interview beneficiaries, builders, authorities and other agencies in their project areas. This book describes the stories of the project beneficiaries and how their houses have changed, within contexts that have kept changing too.

Still Standing? is essential reading for architects and engineers involved in humanitarian fieldwork as well as students and researchers concerned with disaster risk reduction.

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"Still Standing?, /I> fills a major gap in the literature on housing reconstruction following disasters. The text examines five critical issues that surround the subject: 'user satisfaction', 'beneficiary targeting', 'replication by users', 'technical performance' and 'livelihood generation'. Thus it is essential reading for all involved in holistic recovery policy and practice, since it is crammed full of practical advice and rich case studies from international leaders in the field."--Ian Davis, Visiting Professor in Disaster Risk Managment in Copenhagen, Kyoto, Lund and Oxford Brookes Universities

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