- Title
- Governance and resilience: a case of re-development after a bushfire disaster
- Creator
- Gajendran, Thayaparan; Oloruntoba, Richard
- Relation
- Technological Forecasting and Social Change Vol. 121, Issue August 2017, p. 50-64
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.03.016
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- The case study on the re-building program of the Victoria bushfire disaster of 7th Feb 2009 provides insights on the relationship between governance structures in post-disaster re-development and the goal of building sustainable and resilient communities. The paper links ‘governance’ to ‘resilience’ using Stage VI of Turner's 1976 model as a theoretical lens. A qualitative research strategy was utilized to elicit descriptive qualitative responses from which research goals were addressed. The findings show that the design of governance structures for re-building after a disaster impacts the ability to secure resilience. Also, several resilience aspects seem to be impacted by governance issues relating to: the balance between urgency vs. need of space; the role of formal and informal stakeholders; the social-psychological dimension in information sharing as well as entrepreneurial opportunities in rebuilding, and economic sustainability.
- Subject
- disaster resilience; adaptive governance; Victoria bushfires
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1351770
- Identifier
- uon:30769
- Identifier
- ISSN:0040-1625
- Language
- eng
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