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The architectural forms of emergency shelters and the ways they are created play a significant role in the ability of their inhabitants to deal with their displacement and to perhaps feel, even...
- A collaboration: USAID, OCHA, UN Environment, UNHCR, WWF, MSB, NRC, IUCN & other stakeholders
- Seeks to improve the use of environmental data &...
This tool is tailored to refugee camps and settlements for calculating greenhouse gas emissions associated with energy, material and transport uses
This resource highlights priorities for family housing in New Zealand with specific focus on children and covers the following topics: Childrens housing needs in relation to sizes of households...
This guideline aims to promote best practices of prevention, preparedness and response that will reduce fire-related hazards among the residents of informal settlements, residential and non-...
This resource aims to describe the burden of fires in displaced persons settlements and identify interventions/innovations that might address gaps in current humanitarian guidelines. The resource...
The impacts of fire are beginning to be recognised as a significant risk in informal settlements, but are still often overshadowed by the focus on formal built settlements. This Framework has been...
This resource highlights the effects of housing on the mental health of older people in new zealand and covers the following topics: Background- Differences in tragectories of self reported mental...
This presentation highlights how health trajectories and housing paths are linked and covers the following topics: Working with health capital; Housing as a health capital; Health and the housing...
Fire-related injuries are strongly associated with low-income and informal/temporary settlements, which are growing rapidly in an urbanising world. Fire policy and mitigation strategies in poorer...