Natural hazards can have a devastating impact on human life and the built environment. Some of these hazards are amplified by climate change which causes a major problem. Therefore it is necessary to generate adaptation strategies for housing understood as the immediate physical environment both within and outside of buildings in which families and households live, and which serves as shelter. Ninety percentof international aid money is spent only after natural disaster has struck, namely for emergency aid and reconstruction.
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