Mainstreaming risk reduction in urban planning and housing: a challenge for international aid organisations
In Disasters, volume 30, issue 2:
This paper examines current perceptions and practices within international aid organisations regarding the existing and potential roles of urban planning as a tool for reducing disaster risk. It reveals that urban planning confronts many of the generic challenges to mainstreaming risk reduction in development planning and suggests related operative measures and initiatives to achieve a proposed conceptual shift from conventional to non-traditional urban planning.