Whose Reality Counts?: Shelter after Disaster

Author(s)
Burnell, J. and Sanderson, D.
Publication language
English
Pages
5pp.
Date published
01 Sep 2011
Publisher
Environmental Hazards
Type
Articles
Keywords
Disasters, Response and recovery, Shelter and housing, Urban
Organisations
Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP), Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP), Oxford Brookes University
Link
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tenh20/10/3-4

Jeni Burnell and David Sanderson from the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP, Oxford Brookes University) guest edited a special issue on shelter after disaster for Environmental Hazards: Human and Policy Dimensions journal. The attached paper is the editorial for this publication. Other papers within the special issue include a retrospective piece by Ian Davis entitled 'What have we learned from 40 years' experience of disaster shelter?'. Topics also explored scaling up community-driven reconstruction programmes, understanding if there is a human right to shelter and investigating issues of disability and public shelter in emergencies.