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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. The outbreak killed 9,000 Haitians and infected 800,000. i] Muggah, R. iii] Abrahams, D.