TY - BOOK AU - DAVIS Jan AU - LAMBERT Robert TI - Engineering in emergencies: a pratical guide for relief workers SN - 1853392227 (pbk.): PY - 1995/// (1999 printing) CY - London PB - Intermediate Technology Pubs KW - DISASTER RELIEF KW - ENGINEERING KW - HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE N2 - An illustrated practical manual intended to increase the effectiveness of humanitarian relief workers while in the field. Deals with the personal characteristics necessary to cope with disaster relief work; assessment, planning, management, and logistical issues of disasters; environmental health, sanitation, water supplies; types, use and operation of pumps, mechanical plant, electrical plant, vehicles; emergency roads, bridges, airstrips; refugee camps; shelter, storage, and services from the immediate aftermath of a disaster to longer term refugee camps ER -