Multi-Conflicts between the Government, the Non-Profit Organisation and the People after a Serious Landslide Disaster Based Upon Qualitative Analysis

Min-Ta Chuang

doi:10.3390/su11072175

Abstract

Due to the increasing number of intensified extreme events, post-recovery has become a serious challenge worldwide. The common issues faced during the recovery process are fragmentation and coordination problems, the lack of capacity and commitment and the variations in recovery. This study explores the conflicts between various stakeholders via NVivo, based upon the recovery process in Typhoon Morakot. A qualitative analysis was conducted with the software NVivo 10; the findings showed the following: the stakeholders include the government t, the non-profit organisations (NPOs) (mainly charity funds) and the people. For short-term sheltering and long-term settlement, the government plays the leading role in the rebuilding work, supported by NPOs. However, this study discovers that people are disappointed with the government’s rebuilding efforts. As a result, people opt to self-rescue management. Furthermore, the supplementary NPOs sometimes play leading roles in the rebuilding, resulting in conflicts between people. Overall, the government does not take quick and proper actions, resulting in the delay of the rebuilding progress and the dilemma of role misallocation of various stakeholders. As a whole, post-disaster recovery should take the local victims’ preferences into consideration and this might be helpful to speed up the recovery process.

Highlights

Post-disaster recovery has become a serious challenge worldwide, as global environmental change has intensified extreme events and had a dramatic impact
This study aimed to identify the powerful and influential stakeholders during the recovery process after Typhoon Morakot based upon the conflicts between the stakeholders
Three attributes of stakeholders have been identified: “power,” “legitimacy” and “urgency.” Based upon such features, the government can be regarded as having power and legitimacy and the non-profit organisations (NPOs) can be regarded as having legitimacy and urgency and the people can be regarded as having urgency

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Introduction

Post-disaster recovery has become a serious challenge worldwide, as global environmental change has intensified extreme events and had a dramatic impact. Recovery is the last phase of the disaster but it is perhaps the most critical phase for reconstruction issues [1]. The recovery can be divided into two types: short-term recovery and long-term recovery. Short-term recovery starts right after the disaster and provides critical sustained resources and shelter for the victims [2]. Long-term recovery might continue for months and years and involve many different stakeholders to reconstitute services, housing and community restoration [3]. Recovery processes are complicated and varied and the overall recovery framework might confront various challenges, with the increase in the intensity and number of disasters. The most common issues faced during the recovery process are fragmentation and coordination problems, a lack of capacity and commitment and variations in recovery [4]

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