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Towards Sustainable Post-disaster Housing and Building Technologies: Issues and Challenges with Special Reference to India

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One of the most visible consequences of many disasters is the widespread devastation of houses. Recent data indicate that housing losses often account for over 50% of the total losses following disasters. Based on these considerations, governments and international humanitarian agencies increasingly focus their recovery assistance on housing reconstruction.

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    High construction quality was also found by a Third Party Quality Audit appointed by the GSDMA which inspected nearly 100,000 houses and found a rate of conformity with the governmental building codes of over 95% (GSDMA 2005).

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  1. World Habitat Research Centre (WHRC), Department of Environment, Constructions and Design, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Canobbio, Switzerland

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Barenstein, J.E.D. (2012). Towards Sustainable Post-disaster Housing and Building Technologies: Issues and Challenges with Special Reference to India. In: Bolay, JC., Schmid, M., Tejada, G., Hazboun, E. (eds) Technologies and Innovations for Development. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0268-8_7

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