Abstract
There is an urgent need to improve the management of housing reconstruction programmes. Post-disaster housing reconstruction represents a significant portion of global property investment but its management has often proved to be ineffective. Although the post-disaster context makes management more challenging, it also offers exceptional opportunities to invest in and develop a more resilient built environment. On the basis of a systematic review of the existing literature, characteristics of the housing reconstruction context and successes, failures and management issues arising from historical housing reconstruction programmes were identified. These were synthesized into a conceptual framework that relates the contextual characteristics with management strategies and with the desired outcomes for housing reconstruction initiatives. This framework will enable field data collection in order to better understand the interrelationships between context, management strategies and outcomes. Ultimately, it is intended to provide practitioners with decision support tools for selecting appropriate housing reconstruction management strategies.
Highlights
One of the largest sources of global property investment has been the development of permanent housing after disasters (Tas et al 2011)
Many housing reconstruction initiatives, in third world countries, have reproduced or even exacerbated vulnerabilities and failed to achieve a “bounce-forward” for the affected communities (DNS, PASA 2006; Seneviratne et al 2010). In addition to these missed opportunities to bring about positive improvements in disaster resilience, post-disaster housing reconstruction programmes have often failed to deliver their stated objectives (Lyons 2009)
Specific management issues Relating to both the above points, a number of management issues are seen to have recurred in historical housing reconstruction programmes
Summary
One of the largest sources of global property investment has been the development of permanent housing after disasters (Tas et al 2011). Many housing reconstruction initiatives, in third world countries, have reproduced or even exacerbated vulnerabilities and failed to achieve a “bounce-forward” for the affected communities (DNS, PASA 2006; Seneviratne et al 2010) In addition to these missed opportunities to bring about positive improvements in disaster resilience, post-disaster housing reconstruction programmes have often failed to deliver their stated objectives (Lyons 2009). It is intended to achieve this by developing evidence-based decision support tools for practitioners that will assist them to adopt appropriate management strategies for successful reconstruction implementation in their particular post-disaster context. Such tools can only be developed once a thorough understanding of the interrelationships between the contextual characteristics, management strategies and outcomes of reconstruction programmes has been gained.
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