Shelter and Housing: UN-HABITAT In disaster and conflict contexts
Housing reconstruction enables people to rebuild their lives and their communities. Following a disaster, houses are the most prolific area of destruction. This brochure provides an overview of the issues surrounding reconstruction and the approaches to the same. It highlights UN-HABITAT's expertise in shelter and housing and, using a global map, illustrates samples of UN-HABITAT reconstruction activities in crisis-affected countries. With global urbanisation more crises are occurring in cities. There is an increasing recognition that preventing and responding to urban crises is fundamentally different from rural contexts. Other brochures in human crisis settlement planning include:
