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Author Marsh, Graham, author

Title Community Engagement in Post-Disaster Recovery / Graham Marsh
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 Rethinking the meaning of 'community' in community-based disaster management; 2 Rebuilding lessons from bushfire-affected communities in Victoria, Australia; 3 A partnership-based community engagement approach to recovery of flood-affected communities in Bangladesh; 4 Public engagements in forward-looking recovery efforts following the 2013 floods in High River and Calgary, Canada; 5 How the Chinese government responded to the Wenchuan earthquake
6 Participation for disaster resilience: A life cycle approach to reconstruction projects in India7 A duty of care: Disaster recovery, community and social responsibility in Indonesia; 8 The role of community engagement in post-disaster reconstruction: The cases of L'Aquila and Emilia Romagna, Italy; 9 Facts on the ground: Affirming community identity through placemaking projects in West Bank villages; 10 Women and their roles in peace building in conflict-vulnerable areas of Mindanao, Philippines; 11 Community and conflict: The case of Rwanda
12 Beneficiary Driven Recovery (BDR): An example from the Solomon Islands13 From short-term relief to the revival of community in post-tsunami Sri Lanka and India; 14 Community recovery and the role of emergent organisations in post-disaster home buyouts: A case study of Oakwood Beach, New York, United States of America; 15 Conclusions: Emerging lessons on community engagement in post-disaster recovery; Index
Summary "Community Engagement in Post-Disaster Recovery reflects a wide array of practical experiences in working with disaster-affected communities internationally. It demonstrates that widely held assumptions about the benefits of community consultation and engagement in disaster recovery work need to be examined more critically because poorly conceived and hastily implemented community engagement strategies have sometimes exacerbated divisions within affected communities and/or resulted in ineffective use of aid funding. It is equally demonstrated that well-crafted, creative and thoughtful programming is possible. The wide collection of case studies of practical experience from around the world is presented to help establish ways of working with communities experiencing great challenges. The book offers practical suggestions on how to give more substance to the rhetoric of community consultation and engagement in these areas of work. It suggests the need to work with a dynamic understanding of community formation that is particularly relevant when people experience unforeseen challenges and traumatic experiences. This title interrogates the concept of community through an extensive review of the literature and explores the ways of working with communities in transition and particularly in their recovery phases through an array of case studies in a range of socioeconomic and political contexts. Focused on the concept of community in post-disaster recovery solutions--an aspect which has received little critical interrogation in the literature--this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars in disaster management as well as humanitarian agencies."--Provided by publisher
Subject Disaster relief.
Community development.
community development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
Community development
Disaster relief
Form Electronic book
Author Ahmed, Iftekhar
Mulligan, Martin
Donovan, Jenny
Barton, Steve
ISBN 9781315534213
1315534215