Post‐disaster Housing Reconstruction: The Impact of Resourcing in Post‐cyclones Sidr and Aila in Bangladesh

Abstract

This study draws on structured interviews of 285 villagers and semi-structured interviews of 20 key stakeholders to investigate the effectiveness of resourcing for post-disaster housing reconstruction in Bangladesh. Through evaluating post-disaster housing reconstruction theories and approaches, the synthesis of literature and empirical fieldwork, this paper develops a dynamic theoretical framework that moves the trajectory of post-disaster housing reconstruction towards the construction of more resilient houses. The results of descriptive statistics, multiple regression and thematic analyses indicate that only 6 per cent of reconstructed houses could withstand cyclones, and access to resources played a pivotal role in post-Sidr and post-Aila housing reconstruction.

Role of Government and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Cyclone Recovery in Bangladesh

“…In the aftermath of Cyclone SIDR in 2007 and Cyclone AILA in 2009, the Bangladesh government launched an early recovery programme to offer temporary shelter for cyclone victims. Bangladesh Government provided one-time housing assistance of BDT 5000 to approximately 100,000 families whose homes were destroyed in the affected areas, as well as 13,000 bundles of corrugated iron sheets, 13,406 tents, and 15,000 plastic sheets to arrange shelters (Islam et al, 2018). While temporary housing provided by the government and other NGOs assisted victims in the short term in resolving their housing problems, it was insufficient, and many beneficiaries did not use the assistance for its intended purpose, instead of selling donated house-building materials and purchasing other essentials (Mallick et al, 2017) The Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) began the Coastal Embankment Improvement Project (CEIP) in 2013 to upgrade coastal embankments after obtaining funds from the World Bank.…”

A Bibliometric Analysis and Review of Building Information Modelling for Post-Disaster Reconstruction

“…The proposed conceptual framework comprises a variety of key elements, such as the current practices of PDR projects, benefits of BIM adoption, and barriers to BIM adoption. While the previous frameworks focused only on the adoption of BIM for conventional construction [20,21,[92][93][94], and others focused on the management of PDR projects separately [3,12,14,68], our proposed framework is the first attempt to integrate BIM adoption for PDR projects. This framework also incorporates main stakeholders, such as governments, NGOs and donors, disaster victims, and construction players.…”

“…The main target of any PDR project is to attain high levels of beneficiary satisfaction. Nonetheless, PDR projects frequently fail in their pre-planned objectives; for example, only 20% of building requirements are fulfilled, with most buildings being constructed on a temporary instead of permanent basis [12]. Moreover, the efforts of reconstruction projects have lacked any suitable coordination mechanism and monitoring framework [13].…”

Asymmetric Effects of Quality of Life on Residents’ Satisfaction: Exploring a Newborn Natural Disaster Tourism Destination

“…As tourist attractions, NNDDs become objects of the “natural disaster tourism” gaze and community residents’ QOL is greatly affected by the development of disaster tourism. Existing studies mainly highlight a single residents’ QOL attribute domain, such as housing reconstruction, transportation networks, physical and mental health, and community relations [ 9 , 27 , 28 ]. Thus, understandings of residents’ QOL in the NNDD context are limited and a multi-attribute scale for measuring residents’ QOL remains to be developed.…”