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1st Edition - October 7, 2020
Editors: A. Nuno Martins, Mahmood Fayazi, Faten Kikano, Liliane Hobeica
Enhancing Disaster Preparedness: From Humanitarian Architecture to Community Resilience relates to the fourth priority of the UNDRR’s Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction… Read more
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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
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