- Title
- Unravelling the challenges for long-term planning post-disaster resettlement in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines
- Creator
- Carrasco, Sandra; Egbelakin, Temitope
- Relation
- IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. World Building Congress (WBC) 2022: Building Our Future: Informing practice to enhance the lives of current and future generations, Volume 1101 (Melbourne, Australia 26th June, 2022)
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1101/2/022038
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Typhoon Washi hit the southern Philippine city of Cagayan de Oro in December 2011, causing massive destruction and displacing 40 per cent of the city's population, 85 per cent of whom were informal settlers of highly vulnerable areas on the riverbanks. Informal settlers considered by the government as the most vulnerable residents were forcibly resettled in relocation sites in the peri-urban areas. The new settlements and houses fulfilled minimum Philippine standards for emergency housing with limited understanding of local conditions and creating gaps in the residents' needs. In the following years, residents proactively modified their houses to fill initial housing gaps. The impacts of the residents' self-help initiatives related to construction safety and the creation of new risks associated with low construction quality, materials and increased density in the houses are major concerns for the government which is responsible for policies to guide the urban development of these sites. This paper aims to assess the impacts of policies in the urban development of the resettlement sites for low-income disaster-affected communities. To do so, this paper analyses interviews with local government officials, analysing residents' self-help housing construction seven years after the disaster and how these were considered in the local planning policies. Furthermore, the country's post-disaster recovery planning changes will be analysed. The findings will provide insights into government-related challenges to guarantee the technical performance of the houses and the advances and crucial remaining governance challenges for implementing urban development policies.
- Subject
- Philippines; post-disaster resettlement; urban development; typhoons; natural disaster; SDG 11; SDG 17; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1489401
- Identifier
- uon:52696
- Identifier
- ISSN:1755-1315
- Rights
- Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.
- Language
- eng
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