Reconstruction after Disaster: Issues and Practices Book

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Notes on contributors
	Preface
1	Urbanisation, poverty and natural disasters: Vulnerability of settlements in developing countries	1
2	The planning process: An appreciation	13
3	Reducing vulnerability following flood disasters: Issues and practices	23
4	Development, vulnerability and disaster reduction: Bangladesh cyclone shelter projects and their implications	45
5	Learning from the people: A fieldwork approach in war-damaged villages in Lebanon	57
6	Post 1963 Skopje earthquake reconstruction: Long term effects	73
7	Housing and resettlement in post-war Liberia	108
8	Typhoon resistant housing for the poorest of the poor in the Philippines	130
9	Building bridges to reduce risk: The Caqueta ravine, Lima, Peru	148
	Bibliography	166
	Index	176