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Mud, mud : the potential of earth-based materials for Third World housing

Housing may be the Third World's most intractable problem, but mud, adobe, earth-bricks, soil-cement and other traditional building materials are cheap, readily available and can be made and used by the poor people themselves to build their own homes. Today, mud perhaps offers the only practical prospect for building the millions of houses which will be needed over the next twenty years. 

Author(s)
Agarwal, Anil

Biodiversity management in the cement and aggregates sector : Integrated Biodiversity Management System (IBMS)

Author(s)
Imboden, Christoph
Meynell, Peter-John
Richards, David
Stalmans, Marc
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