Making things happen community participation and disaster reconstruction in Pakistan

"Drawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction. As the latter is often fraught with delays and even abandonment-one cause being ineffective interactions between construct...

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Main Author: Thomas, Jane Murphy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Berghahn Books 2022, 2022
Edition:1st Edition
Series:Catastrophes in Context
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:"Drawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction. As the latter is often fraught with delays and even abandonment-one cause being ineffective interactions between construction and local people-PERRP used anthropological and participatory approaches. Along with strong construction management, such approaches led to the rebuilding being completed on time. As disasters are increasing in number and intensity, so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:1800732813
1800735626