Community-based construction for disaster risk reduction

Hazards and the Built Environment: Attaining Built-in Resilience

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 191-217

  Petal, Marla ^a   Green, Rebekah ^b   Kelman, Ilan ^c   Shaw, Rajib ^d   Dixit, Amod ^e  

^a Risk RED ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e National Society for Earthquake Technology   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84911051612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203938720     Document Type: Chapter

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