The Built Environment Professions in Disaster Risk Reduction and Response Guide is a collaborative production, written and edited by a research team from the Max Lock Centre at the University of Westminster, with input from RICS, ICE, RTPI and RIBA, as well as international development agency representatives, writes RICS, 280409 at http://www.rics.org.
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The Guide is intended to demonstrate the value of using built environment professionals more widely in disaster risk reduction and response and giving early attention to engaging the right expertise to address the problems of building, infrastructure and land.

Targeted at non-technical decision makers in humanitarian agencies, the Guide is also relevant to all international development agencies, governments at national, sub-national and local levels, NGOs, and to people affected by disasters.

The guide outlines the responsibilities and capabilities of surveyors, engineers, planners and architects in reducing disaster risks and responding to disaster impacts. It looks at the role that built environment professionals can and should offer in supporting and empowering communities and the groups most vulnerable to disasters, especially in developing countries. It sets out how the different built environment professions can be engaged, individually or in combination, at different stages in the various phases of disaster risk management and response.

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