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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. That is an important strength, but time will tell whether it is enough to get by on. [i]

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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. There are also areas that are not so popular with researchers, and one of these is emergency planning. Secondly, we need to make emergency planning more rigorous and standardise it on the basis of well-chosen benchmarks.