Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Safer homes, stronger communities: a handbook for reconstructing after natural disasters / GFDRR WB
Source(s): Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR); World Bank, the (WB)
Publication date: 2010
ISBN/ISSN: 9780821682684
Author(s): Jha, Abhas K.; Duyne Barenstein, Jennifer; Phelps, Priscilla M.; Pittet, Daniel; Sena, Stephen
Number of pages: 370 p.
This handbook was developed to assist policy makers and project managers engaged principally in large-scale post-disaster reconstruction programs make decisions about how to reconstruct housing and communities, a complex series of decisions that, taken together, will affect the communities involved for many years. However, the handbook should be useful to communities and professionals involved in any type of post-disaster housing and community reconstruction project.