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The need to integrate risk reduction with development aid is generally acknowledged, but little work has been undertaken to identify how to do so. Related operational tools are also frequently...
Este número de Building Issues dastaca el concepto de autoconstrucción organizada de viviendas en general y proporciona directrices prácticas para llevar a cabo proyectos de autoconstrucción...
Este número de Building Issues pretende destacar las formas de regularización de los asentamientos espontáneas. En primer lugar hay que decidir si los asentamientos deberían ser reformados, o bien...
The following topics are included in the report: Health hazards from paints during application Health hazards from paints in service; Health hazards from timber preservatives during application;...
This Building Issue aims at highlighting ways to regularize spontaneous settlements. First one must decide if the settlements should be upgraded, or if basic conditions are so unfavourable (...
This Building Issue highlights the concept of organized self-help housing in general and provides practical guidelines for implementing organized small-scale self-help housing projects. The role...
In General considerations, gender and related concepts are defined, followed by a description of the social structures that generate gender in equality and how they are constructed. Those...