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Recovery from Disaster

Recovery from Disaster

Davis, Ian
Alexander, David

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Chan

General ArchitectureGeneral SociologyGeography

ISBN10: 0415611687
ISBN13: 9780415611688
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 24 2015
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Disasters can dominate newspaper headlines and fill our TV screens with relief appeals, but the complex long-term challenge of recovery--providing shelter, rebuilding safe dwellings, restoring livelihoods and shattered lives--generally fails to attract the attention of the public and most agencies. On average 650 disasters occur each year. They affect more than 200 million people and cause $166 trillion of damage. Climate change, population growth and urbanisation are likely to intensify further the impact of natural disasters and add to reconstruction needs. Recovery from Disaster explores the field and provides a concise, comprehensive source of knowledge for academics, planners, architects, engineers, construction managers, relief and development officials and reconstruction planners involved with all sectors of recovery, including shelter and rebuilding. With almost 80 years of first-hand experience of disaster recovery between them, Ian Davis (an architect) and David Alexander (a geographer) draw substantially from first-hand experiences in a variety of recovery situations in China, Haiti, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines and the USA.

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