Developing Building for Safety Programmes: Guidelines for organizing safe building programmes in disaster-prone areas

Developing Building for Safety Programmes summarizes the basic principles to be considered in the planning and implementation of community-based building improvement programmes for small dwellings in disaster-prone areas. Including case studies illustrating suggestions made. These guidelines for safe building improvement programmes in disaster-prone areas cover a range of topics and emphasize that the constraints on the building of dwellings are complex interactive procedures.The relationships between technical, social, economic and political considerations is rarely clear – particularly when seen from the standpoint of the builder or occupier.