Post-Disaster Reconstruction of the Built Environment: Rebuilding for Resilience

Dilanthi Amaratunga

ISBN 10: 1444333569 / ISBN 13: 9781444333565

Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2011

About this Item

After a disaster strikes, the construction industry is often engaged in a range of critical activities: providing temporary shelter after the disaster; restoration of permanent shelter and public services such as hospitals, schools, water supply, power, communications, and environmental infrastructure. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: TN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 179 x 22. Weight in Grams: 896. . 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Post-Disaster Reconstruction of the Built Environment: Rebuilding for Resilience
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1444333569
• ISBN 13: 9781444333565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Disasters threaten all parts of the world and they appear to be increasing in frequency, scale and intensity. Despite huge improvements in the emergency response, permanent reconstruction is often uncoordinated, inefficiently managed and slow to begin. International agencies are geared to an efficient response in terms of humanitarian relief, but they are not well versed in the requirements of long-term reconstruction, which is often constrained by lack of planning and poorly coordinated management.

The construction industry is typically engaged in a range of critical activities after a disaster, including provision of temporary shelter in the immediate aftermath and restoration of permanent shelter and public infrastructure once the immediate humanitarian needs have been attended to. Post-Disaster Reconstruction of the Built Environment identifies the challenges that face the industry and highlights best practice to enable the construction industry to address those problems which make an effective response to these unexpected events difficult. Written by an international team of experts, this book will help researchers and advanced students of construction understand the problems faced by communities and the construction industry when faced with a natural or man-made disaster, and identify the planning and management processes required by the industry to mount an effective response.

About the Author

Dilanthi Amaratunga is the Professor of Disaster Management at the University of Salford, UK where she leads the University's Centre for Disaster Resilience.

Richard Haigh is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Disaster Resilience, the School of the Built Environment, University of Salford, UK.