Strategies for Housing and Sustainable
Livelihoods in Developing Countries
A seminar of the Housing
& Hazards Group at the Eden
Project, Cornwall
Friday 28th November 2003
Dr Mike Heath and Dr Robert Hodgson, Co-conveners.
Strategies for Housing and Sustainable
Livelihoods in Developing Countries
A seminar of the Housing
& Hazards Group at the Eden
Project, Cornwall
Friday 28th November 2003
Dr Mike Heath and Dr Robert Hodgson, Co-conveners.
More than a quarter of the world’s people live in non-engineered homes that provide little or no protection to lives or to livelihoods when natural hazards strike. This seminar will bring together experience and expertise to help formulate strategies for developing hazard resistant homes and workplaces while creating rural employment. The outputs will be used in the Group’s activities in Bangladesh and the process refined for other similar contexts.
Bamboo house frame constructed by the Housing and Hazards Group
in the Humid Tropical Biome of the Eden Project to demonstrate the
use of bamboo in house construction.
The frame is based on a Colombian design.
The Housing & Hazards Group formed in 1994 and has
under-taken field action research in Bangladesh through a Higher Education
Link project between the University of
Exeter and the Bangladesh University
of Engineering & Technology. The Group also has links with Indian
collaborators. Link activities and publicatons can be found at HazardResistantHousing.com.
For further information contact:
Dr Mike Heath
Camborne School of Mines
University of Exeter
Redruth
Cornwall TR15 3SE (UK)
Tel/fax: 01209-216647
email: M.J.Heath@exeter.ac.uk