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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.
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.
Papua New Guinea is going through a crisis: A concentration on
conventional approaches to development, including an unsustainable
reliance on mining, forestry, and foreign aid, has contributed to
the country's slow decline since independence in 1975. Sustainable
Communities, Sustainable Development attempts to address problems
and gaps in the literature on development and develop a new
qualitative conception of community sustainability informed by
substantial and innovative research in Papua New Guinea. In this
context, sustainability is conceived in terms that include not just
practices tied to economic development. It also informs questions
of wellbeing and social integration, community-building, social
support, and infrastructure renewal. In short, the concern with
sustainability here entails undertaking an analysis of how
communities are sustained through time, how they cohere and change,
rather than being constrained within discourses and models of
development. From another angle, this project presents an account
of community sustainability detached from instrumental concerns
with economic development. Contributors address questions such as:
What are the stories and histories through which people respond to
their nation's development? What is the everyday social environment
of groups living in highly diverse areas (migrant settlements,
urban villages, remote communities)? They seek to contribute to a
creative and dynamic grass-roots response to the demands of
everyday life and local-global pressures. While the overdeveloped
world faces an intersecting crisis created by global climate change
and financial instability, Papua New Guinea, with all its
difficulties, still has the basis for responding to this manifold
predicament. Its secret lies in what has been seen as its weakness:
underdeveloped economies and communities, where people still
maintain sustainable relations to each other and the natural world.
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