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What have we learned from 40 years’ experience of Disaster Shelter?

The following paper is an expanded version of a lecture given on the same topic in a conference on Disaster Shelter organized by the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) at Oxford Brookes University in September 2010. The paper covers a clutch of related topics: shelter, reconstruction, safety and development. Its main focus is on developing countries, but much can apply to first-world disaster recovery situations.