![Evidence and Innovation: the tried, tested and boring](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ReinventingTheWheel-470x140.png)
Evidence and innovation – these are two words familiar to anyone reading about humanitarian programming. Nowadays everything has to be “evidence-based”, judged against “indicators”, monitored,…
![Promoting Safer Building](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DSCF2907-470x140.jpg)
Following Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines fewer than 20% of people rebuilding their houses have so far adopted any kind of safer building measures, despite…
![Freedom to participate: can the capability approach offer insight into participation in disaster recovery processes?](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Homeless-but-not-hopeless-470x140.jpg)
After a disaster, do people always have the capabilities to participate fully in the reconstruction and recovery process? In the development and humanitarian fields, we…
![Rebuilding away from the coast: Whose risk is really reduced?](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/mm2-470x140.png)
By Michelle Annette Meyer, PhD The Philippines faces a long road of recovery decisions that will affect the population’s risk for generations to come. One…
![Downtown Port-au-Prince six months after the devastating 2010 Earthquake. by Anna Konotchick](http://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/forest-of-rebar-470x140.jpg)
By James Kennedy One of the major features of almost all disasters occurring in urban areas, is the large amount of rubble created, and the…