Housing & Hazards
Every year thousands of homes are decimated across the world. Reports frequently refer to floods, cyclones and earthquakes but these are only part of the problem. The underlying disaster is often the desperate poverty in the rural communities which forces people to live in hazardous locations and in unsuitable housing. The natural phenomena cannot be abated but people can be helped to live with them.
The Housing & Hazards Group develops practical methodologies and links professionals,
academics and practitioners based in and around the University of Exeter to make
safer, hazard-
NEW! Join us for a two-week workshop in rural Bangladesh... (more info)
Since September 2009, we have been supporting the work of SAFE Bangladesh, set up by a
trainee of the H&H programme to transfer the skills and technologies developed by
our activities to rural home builders in Bangladesh. Follow the SAFE link (left) for more details.
AND, new for 2010, we are offering 20 places on an international
workshop to give you an opportuntity to work with our partners and
their clients. This is a chance to learn at first hand the challenges
of living in a really low-income economy and some of the techniques
that could really make a difference to survival on a dollar a day.