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Rebuilding Local Communities in the Wake of Disaster - Social Recovery in Sri Lanka and India (Paperback)
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Rebuilding Local Communities in the Wake of Disaster - Social Recovery in Sri Lanka and India (Paperback)
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This book examines the sociological consequences of disaster relief
and recovery, and uncovers its impact on the communities that were
affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. It is the most
extensive and intensive study of post-disaster community rebuilding
yet reported in the literature on the subject. The authors draw on
this research to develop a three-phase strategy for moving from
quick and effective relief to long-term social recovery work. While
there have been many big natural disasters since then, none have
affected so many local communities spread over so many nations and
none have evoked the same kind of global response. A great deal of
post-tsunami recovery work was done in India and Sri Lanka, with
more than 500 international aid and humanitarian agencies involved
in Sri Lanka alone - many with little experience in long-term
community development. This book argues that international aid
agencies must work patiently to put in place meaningful
partnerships with local, community-based organisations as soon as
long-term physical and social planning becomes possible. The
authors explain that such an approach could help address some
pre-existing vulnerabilities in disaster-affected communities. They
argue that it is much easier to rebuild damaged infrastructure than
to rebuild shattered lives, and to ensure that traumatised
communities are not put under new stresses and strains, the
'fault-lines' within these communities need to be lessened.
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