1st Edition

Beyond Shelter after Disaster: Practice, Process and Possibilities

Edited By David Sanderson, Jeni Burnell Copyright 2013
170 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Providing shelter after a disaster is recognised as one of the most complex areas of humanitarian relief and recovery. Some aid agencies have stopped providing shelter altogether after bad experiences, while those that do quickly become engaged in challenges that go far beyond the provision of structures alone. Yet with the number and severity of disasters set to increase, due to climate change... Read more

1. Introduction. Beyond shelter after disaster: practice, process and possibilities  Part one: practice  2. What have we learned from 40 years’ experience of Disaster Shelter?  3. Harnessing time: Reflections on constraints to development  4. Post-disaster reconstruction: A current analysis of Gujarat’s response after the 2001 earthquake  Part two: process  5. Resilient dwellings or resilient people? Towards people-centred reconstruction  6. Community-led resettlement: from a flood- affected slum to a new society in Pune, India  7. Lost in translation? The challenges of an equitable post-disaster reconstruction process: lessons from Chile  Part three: possibilities  8. Is there a human right to shelter after disaster?  9. Can humanitarian responses in urban areas reinforce underlying causes of vulnerability? Tweaking a livelihoods analysis of inequality and infrastructure in splintering cities  10. From research to practice (and vice versa) for post-disaster settlement and shelter  11. Disability and public shelter in emergencies

Biography

David Sanderson has over 20 years’ experience in humanitarian aid, mostly with NGOs. He is currently a Professor and Director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) at Oxford Brookes University.

Jeni Burnell trained as an architect before pursuing a career in community art, architecture and development. She has a Master’s degree in development and emergency practice and is currently a Research Associate at CENDEP, Oxford Brookes University. Her specialisations include shelter after disaster and community-led development using the ‘Small Change’ approach.