Full Description
Recent disasters have demonstrated the critical role that re-housing victims play in communities' long term disaster recovery. This book examines the history and theories of rehousing, the role of bonding social capital, applies systems theory to understanding the stages of recovery, then presents case studies of long term housing recovery following Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy in the United States, Hurricane Maria in Dominica, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and a variety of disasters in Turkey, Nepal, Japan, and India. Together these chapters address what Dr. Louise Comfort has called "one of the most persistent and difficult policy problems in the field: long term recovery of communities following disaster."
Contents
Chapter 1: Long-Term Recovery and Housing: Public Policy and Household Impacts
Frances L. Edwards
Chapter 2: Pressure Points: A Systems Approach to Long-Term Recovery in South Louisiana
John J. Kiefer, Alessandra Jerroleman, Jerry V. Graves
Chapter 3: Reliance on Government in Times of Disaster: Exploring the Influence of Bonding Social Capital in the United States
Jason D. Rivera
Chapter 4: Long Term Recovery for the Small Business Community
Alessandra Jerroleman, Jerry V. Graves, Miriam Belblidia
Chapter 5: Dominica: The World's First Resilient Country?
Denise D. P. Thompson
Chapter 6: Cultural Competence in Long Term Recovery: Lessons from the 2010 Haitian Earthquake
Christa L. Remington
Chapter 7: 'House Keeping': Managing Post-Disaster Housing Recovery Long Term
N. Emel Ganapati and Anuradha Mukherji
