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Annual Reports to the ESA Council ESA 110th Annual Meeting July, 2025

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The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
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The commodification of temporary housing

Cities, 2021
Abstract Since the 1970s, temporary uses of vacant spaces have become a preferred urban development strategy to revitalise centrally-located neighbourhoods. In the housing sector, however, temporary uses are barely registered as they provide only short-term shelter in buildings shortly before demolition.
Debrunner, Gabriela, Gerber, Jean-David
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Temporary Multi-storey Container House

IABSE Reports, 2014
<p> The project was the design development and construction of multi-storey temporary housing units as part of the disaster relief effort following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Our objective of the project was to find and commission an affordable temporary housing solution that could be constructed rapidly to accommodate the residents ...
Shigeru Hikone, Masaki Tokubuchi
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Factors affecting the post-disaster temporary housing construction

Journal of Emergency Management, 2021
Every year, around 14 million people become homeless worldwide due to natural disasters. Providing temporary housing for the affected people is considered a complex task as it is affected by numerous factors such as socioeconomic, logistics, and community characteristics of the region.
Mahdi, Afkhamiaghda   +3 more
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Creating a performance indicator for temporary housing

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2021
Eighty percent of the cities in the world are located in areas that are affected at least once a year by natural disasters. As a natural disaster occurs, dislodged people need a place to stay. Between the timeframe of people living in congregate emergency shelters and going back to living in permanent housing, there is a long period where people need ...
Afkhamiaghda, Mahdi   +2 more
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Temporary Housing, Permanent Communities

Journal of Urban History, 2007
The Puerto Rico Housing Authority was created in 1938 as a consequence of the 1937 U.S. Federal Housing Act. Increased migration to Puerto Rico's urban centers had resulted in overflowing slums. Public housing became the prime solution. In 1964, Luis Muñoz Marín, first Puerto Rican elected governor and the first governor under the formally defined ...
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Deployable temporary housing for emergencies

The Journal of Architecture
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de España; BIA2016-79459 ...
Juan Pérez-Valcárcel   +7 more
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Post-Disaster Sheltering, Temporary Housing and Permanent Housing Recovery

2017
In the aftermath of disasters, reestablishing housing is fundamental for individual, household, and community level recovery. For many households, the process can be characterized as multi-staged from sheltering, to temporary housing, and finally permanent housing with some bouncing back and forth between sheltering and temporary housing.
Walter Gillis Peacock   +3 more
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Strategic planning for post‐disaster temporary housing

Disasters, 2007
Temporary housing programmes suffer from excessively high cost, late delivery, poor location, improper unit designs and other inherent issues. These issues can be attributed in part to a prevalence of ad hoc tactical planning, rather than pre‐disaster strategic planning, for reconstruction undertaken by governments and non‐governmental organisations ...
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