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Disaster Mitigation and Vulnerability Reduction Programs: An Overview of Current Practice, Strategies, and Approaches
This paper looks at the problems involved in efforts to reduce the vulnerability of human settlements in the developing countries to disaster threats. More specifically, it examines the approaches taken by governments and ...
A Report on the Refugee Camp and Housing Programs in Choloma, Honduras, For the Refugees of Hurricane Fifi: December 1974.
On December 26th and 27th, 1974, INTERTECT representatives visited the region of Honduras which was hit by Hurricane Fifi in September 1974. The purpose of the trip was to inspect the housing prorams established by the ...
An Assessment of Airdrops in Relief Operations.
In recent years, there have been a number of cases where military aircraft were used to drop food and other relief supplies to populations that were in danger of starvation due to famine, conflict, or both. Despite the ...