Vol. 7, No. 1  January-March 2001

Editor's Corner...

Book Review...

ADPC Programs and Activities...


Theme


AUDMP - making cities safer


Bookmarks


WWW Sites

World Wide Web Site . . .

Earthquakes and Reconstruction

http://www.anglia.ac.uk/geography/radix
Radix The recently started website of Radix (Radical Interpretations of Disaster and Radical Solutions) is a dynamic meeting point for scientists, human rights activists, development workers, students, researchers and anyone interested in issues concerning human populations. Though inspired by the recent quakes in El Salvador and Gujarat, India, Radix is meant as a place for discussions, working papers, opinion pieces, resources and links that can help to develop radical interpretations of and for all disasters. The website also hosts a mailing list.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/prepare/factsheets/SaferStructures/
The United States Geological Society site posts a number of online documents on earthquake mitigation through structural design.

http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/urban/dis_man/mexico.htm
Case Study: Housing Reconstruction in Mexico City is a paper co-authored by Alcira Kreimer and Edward Echeverria. It gives details of the four housing programs that were set up to reconstruct the city after the earthquake that devastated it in 1985. Two other papers are Reducing Urban and Natural Risks in Mexico City by Manuel Aguilera and Decentralizing Mexico's Health Care Facilities by Edward Echeverria.

http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/dmf/what_emerged.htm
Turkey Earthquake: What Emerged from the Rubbles, by Polat Gulkan emphasizes the need to enforce building code laws to minimize the loss of life from earthquakes.

http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/dmf/megacities.htm
Megacities, Megarisk: Kobe Earthquake by Fouad Bendimerad talks about how local government plans can reduce the human and financial loss in cities, which are becoming more vulnerable to risk.

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