The Built Environment Professions in Disaster Risk Reduction and Response

This 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. It shows how relevant professional skills and expertise can be applied at all stages of disaster management. It highlights that their contribution is especially important to achieving the longer-term goal of sustainable recovery and development.

The guide is targeted, in particular, at non-technical decision makers in humanitarian agencies. However, it is also relevant to all international development agencies; to governments, at national, sub national and local levels and the affected people who, together, contribute the vast majority of funds and resources; and to non-governmental organisations involved in one or other aspect of disaster management.