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Practitioner’s Resource Kit:
Environmental Management in Humanitarian Operations
Max Lock Centre
University of Westminster
2009		 The Built Environment Professions in Disaster Risk Reduction - A Guide for Humanitarian Agencies
  • Demonstrate the value of using built environment professionals more widely in disaster risk reduction and response and giving early attention to engaging the right expertise to address the problems of building, infrastructure and land to achieve sustainable recovery and development
Max Lock Centre
University of Westminster
2006		 Mind the Gap! Post Disaster Reconstruction and the Transition from Humanitarian Relief
  • The report provides overwhelming evidence of the existence of a ‘gap’– in funding, management and delivery – between short-term, effective humanitarian relief, and long-term reconstruction.
  The Max Lock Centre - School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster
Corsellis,T
Vitale,A.
2005		 Transitional Settlement: Displaced Populations. University of Cambridge/ Shelterproject and Oxfam UK
  • Includes environmental considerations in shelter planning, management and closure
Kelly,C
2005		 Checklist-Based Guide to Identifying Critical Environmental Considerations in Emergency Shelter Site Selection, Construction, Management and Decommissioning. Version 1.0
  • A tool to assess whether environmental issues have been appropriately addressed in emergency shelter efforts
  • Can also be used to review planning for new emergency shelter sites
WWF
2006		 Tsunami Green Reconstruction Policy Guidelines
  • Highlights areas of reconstruction that can have the most direct impact on natural resources
  • How to minimise any negative environmental impacts of reconstruction and promote positive choices that optimize environmental goods and services, development, and livelihood opportunities