- Title
- Organising the management of disaster recovery and construction: a built environment perspective
- Creator
- Gajendran, Thayaparan; Mackee, Jaime; Brewer, Graham; Giggins, Helen; Le Goff, Raichel
- Relation
- International Conference on Building Resilience 2013: Individual, Institutional and Societal Coping Strategies to address the Challenges associated with Disaster Risk. International Conference on Building Resilience 2013: Conference Proceedings (Ahungalla, Sri Lanka 17-19 September, 2013)
- Relation
- http://www.buildresilience.org/2013/index.php
- Publisher
- University of Salford
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Post-disaster recovery and reconstruction is a complex process. Complicated social, political, technical and legal aspects impact upon the recovery course of action. Generally, recovery and redevelopment phases require multi-sector engagement, a wide range of distinct skills and significant resource commitment. These requirements are usually satisfied through involving different organisations. Among others, built environment-associated skills and resources have an important role to play in the recovery and reconstruction. It is proposed that holistic and systematic organisation of a post disaster recovery management plan is critical for successful redevelopment. This paper presents a discourse on post disaster recovery experiences and identifies key issues impacting on the organising of management of the post disaster recovery/reconstruction. This paper analyses semi-structured interviews, conducted with professionals from government, built environment and humanitarian organisations. Interview data is coded and thematically analysed to identify the key themes. The findings suggest that creation of Temporary Organisations with specific aims, managed by different levels of government and community, enable enhanced coordination of permanent organisations/agencies, stakeholders and other resources assisting reconstruction. Therefore, this paper contributes in developing further understanding into the ‘organisation’ of the management of disaster recovery and construction.
- Subject
- built environment; reconstruction; stakeholders; temporary organisations; coordination
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067052
- Identifier
- uon:18321
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781907842436
- Language
- eng
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