Building Back Better: The Large-Scale Impact of Small-Scale Approaches to Reconstruction

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 385-398

  Lyons, Michal ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

housing; owner driven; post disaster; reconstruction; South Asia; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

DISASTER RELIEF; HOUSING POLICY; HOUSING PROVISION; NATURAL DISASTER; POLITICAL ECONOMY; RECONSTRUCTION; TSUNAMI;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 58149271143     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.01.006     Document Type: Article

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