Sustainable Disaster Recovery: Operationalizing An Existing Agenda

Smith, Gavin; Wenger, Dennis E.

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-32353-4_14

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“…The third one is the use of science in strategic and operational documents. These inputs must feed an effort to assess the effectiveness of public policies; it is the fourth step [13]. The last step is to create a sustainable recovery policy at the national level.…”

Section: The Difficult Redevelopment Of a Village After Floods: The Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This limited use is linked to the fact that the approach is not operational because not articulated with other socioeconomic sectors, which nevertheless maintain interdependent relationships [13]. Another shortcoming is the difficulty to clearly demonstrate the benefits generated by this strategy.…”

Section: Obstacles To the Development Of An Exante Strategy And Weaknmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, if the reconstruction does not happen as scheduled in the plan, disengagement of the stakeholders may occur [13]. In addition, too much confidence in the reconstruction plans tends to limit individual actions.…”

Section: Obstacles To the Development Of An Exante Strategy And Weaknmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Post-disaster recovery: the challenge of anticipation

Moatty

Vinet

2016

E3S Web Conf.

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Abstract. The recurrence of disasters, sometimes in the same territories, questioned the effectiveness of the preventive logic and of the post-disaster recovery process. The present reconstruction approach aims at analysing the interactions between risk, societies and territories. The study of the recovery process in a holistic way through a medium and long-term feedback defines its operating rules, and its "good and bad practices" regarding the objectives of risk reduction and sustainable development. The lack of anticipation, the numerous uncertainties and the emergency in which the decisions are taken, lead in many cases, to risk persistence and increased social gaps. When "preventive ethics" is integrated into the process, it remains occasional and marginal. Reconstruction does not start from a "zero state"; it is subjected to territorial, economic and political constraints. Thus, in order to make the postdisaster reconstruction a preventive opportunity, an anticipatory effort is needed -though necessarily limited -it must be accompanied by an ex-post planning. These considerations will be illustrated by the examples of the recovery of two French departments: the Aude department after the 12 th and 13 th November 1999 floods, and the Var department after the 15 th and 16 th June 2010 floods.

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Post-disaster recovery: the challenge of anticipation

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Vinet

2016

E3S Web Conf.

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“…As a result, disasters and recovery have been studied from a variety of perspectives including sociology, policy implementation, decision-making, engineering, geography and urban planning. Despite the need for understanding and developing theories of disaster recovery, research on recovery is still in the early stages of development, and a comprehensive theory of sustainable recovery has yet to be formed (Smith and Wenger 2006). In order to begin developing an empirically-based theory of recovery, it is necessary to first answer the questions:…”

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Measuring Community Resilience and Recovery: A Content Analysis of Indicators

Jordan

Javernick‐Will

2012

Construction Research Congress 2012

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Disaster resilience and recovery have been studied from a variety of perspectives including sociology, policy implementation, decision-making, engineering, geography and urban planning. For this reason, there is a wide range of definitions of resilience and recovery, and determining appropriate indicators of recovery and resilience is a challenge for both researchers and practitioners. We begin this paper with a discussion of the varying definitions of recovery, vulnerability and resilience and how they have been utilized in each field. In order to assess what indicators can be used to measure both resilience and recovery, we performed an indepth content analysis on definitions and indicators from existing literature. We analyzed articles from 2000 to 2010 in four disaster-focused journals that include perspectives of engineers, social scientists, practitioners and economists. Articles were selected by a keyword search and analyzed for resilience and recovery indicators using an emergent coding scheme. We classified the indicators of community resilience into infrastructure, social, economic and institutional categories. Recovery indicators were categorized as social, economic, environmental and infrastructure. Researchers can use these results for future studies of causal factors and recovery indicators. Similarly, practitioners will be able to have a condensed opinion of experts in the field of disaster recovery and planning.

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“…Disaster recovery is the least understood aspect of emergency management, both from the standpoint of the research and practitioner communities (Smith and Wenger 2006). Button (2009) reported that disaster recovery was the least studied and understood of the phases of disaster, despite its significance and the fact that it is the lengthiest component of the disaster continuum.…”

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Collective Tools for Disaster Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Atsumi¹,

Ishizuka²,

Miyamae³

2017

IDRiM Journal

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Disaster recovery requires a vision of the community. This study will introduce the concept of 'symphonicity' which can be defined through the use of a 2X2 table. One axis of the table includes voluntary and pre-voluntary type societies corresponding to intentional and unintentional societies, respectively. The other axis includes the traditional distinction between community and association or Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft." Symphonicity, lies in the voluntary-community cell, which can be realized by moving the society either from voluntary-association or from pre-voluntary-community. However, moving a society from one quadrant to the other requires effort and vision. The authors of this study have been conducting fieldwork in Noda Village, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, and have identified two possible tools for community recovery. One is a movement to establish a community-radio-station for which various village groups produce their own program; while the other is "Picturescue" in which volunteers picked up tsunami-damaged photos taken before the tsunami and returned them to the original owners. Our participant observations revealed that these two activities motivated the survivors toward Symphonicity: community-radio led survivors to establish a sense of community with local pride, while Picturescue reminded survivors of the community before the disaster, further reinforcing their rationale for choosing to remain in the community. The socio-psychological and practical implications for utilizing such tools for recovery are discussed.

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Sustainable Disaster Recovery: Operationalizing An Existing Agenda

Cited by 234 publications

References 34 publications

Post-disaster recovery: the challenge of anticipation

Post-disaster recovery: the challenge of anticipation

Measuring Community Resilience and Recovery: A Content Analysis of Indicators

Collective Tools for Disaster Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake

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