
Enhancing Disaster Preparedness
From Humanitarian Architecture to Community Resilience
- 1st Edition - October 7, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: A. Nuno Martins, Mahmood Fayazi, Faten Kikano, Liliane Hobeica
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 0 7 8 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 0 7 9 - 1
Enhancing Disaster Preparedness: From Humanitarian Architecture to Community Resilience relates to the fourth priority of the UNDRR’s Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduct… Read more

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Request a sales quote- Explores Sendai’s fourth priority through a spatial lens
- Examines the role of humanitarian design in building resilience
- Critically revisits concepts such as incremental housing and building back better
- Provides examples of methodological tools for community engagement in resilience-building processes
PART I – Humanitarian architecture
1. A humanitarian shelter terminology framework
2. Techo’s emergency-housing response to hurricanes in Puerto Rico: Lessons from the field
3. The story of the disaster-relief houses in Iceland
4. The influence of technical assistance in the adoption of safer construction practices in Nepal
5. Participatory design for refugee shelters: An experiment in Syrian camps in Jordan
6. Lessons for Humanitarian Architecture from design contests: The case of the Building 4Humanity Design Competition
PART II – Architecture and urban design to enhance community preparedness
7. Architects’ multifaceted roles in enhancing resilience after disasters
8. Probing for resilience: Exploring design with empathy in Zanzibar, Tanzania
9. Consolidation design as an adaptation strategy in the Toi Market in Nairobi, Kenya
10. Risk and urban design in Brazilian favelas: Linking participation, collective spaces, and territorial management
PART III – Housing vulnerability, community resilience, and inclusive governance
11. Informality versus short-term regularization of the Syrian refugees’ situation in Lebanon
12. Incremental housing in Villa Verde, Chile: A view through the Sendai Framework lens
13. Climate Action Zones: A clustering methodology for resilient spatial planning in climate uncertainty
14. The links between vulnerability, poverty, and natural hazards: A focus on the impacts of globalization trends
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 7, 2020
- No. of pages (Paperback): 298
- No. of pages (eBook): 298
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128190784
- eBook ISBN: 9780128190791
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A. Nuno Martins
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Mahmood Fayazi
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Faten Kikano
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