Many of these informal settlers have established houses on land with a high hazard risk 鈥 for example, adjacent to rivers, on disused railway reserves and along road corridors. The result is they face the threa
It may also entail vaccinations, provision of mosquito nets and supplemental feeding for children; tap water and boreholes; and building houses for widows and destitute children. The external organizations ostensibly also support women's groups in all the sample villages, but their support to women...
but unfortunately, some construction companies blind these spaces and make them part of the built space to make more profit in sales while resilience in such houses is very difficult.
Intermediate Central American cities face rapid urbanisation on the fringes. Whereas uncontrolled urban growth used to be associated with informal self-provision of houses, suburban disorder is now attributed to fully serviced residential projects for a new middle class, built on ecologically vulnerable l...
These new systems have the potential to achieve a 32% reduction in household water usage in the houses connected to the green infrastructure. They also help minimize the waste and mixing of urban rainwater streams being with the sewage water system, which is a common issue in the area. 26 ...
For some, however, their experiences of wellbeing at home were adversely impacted by poor housing conditions or challenging relationships. In Dhaka, participants from lower income areas were frustrated to live in houses, where “surrounding buildings” restricted “air” and “light” and “poor ...
while younger sister Ellen taught at St Just Board School. Annie also had somewhere to live and family support after her marriage broke up. Her sister Ellen had had two houses built in Nancherrow Terrace; Annie lived at Audley House while sister Mary occupied neighbouring Trendrennan. However,...
In 2006, I founded a lettings and estate agency with two high street branches in Ayrshire. In early 2015, I began to spot a trend of people wanting to stay in people’s houses and cottages, through sites like Airbnb, and decided to rethink our business model focusing on short-term lets...
The suggested methods for resilience quantification and labelling are demonstrated using a representative model of Norwegian single-family houses in order to analyse the impact of different building designs and resilience enhancement strategies on a building’s thermal resilience. 3.1. Description of case ...
Students witness the direct and positive impact of their sustainability and resilience initiatives on their campus and the broader community [41,42]. This firsthand experience fosters a deep connection to the environment and a heightened awareness of the need for responsible and sustainable practices ...