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Safer homes, stronger communities

A Handbook for Reconstructing after Natural Disasters
Abhas K. Jha with Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, Priscilla M. Phelps, Daniel Pittet and Stephen Sena
ISBN : 978-0-8213-8045-1
eISBN : 978-0-8213-8268-4
DOI : 10.1596/978-0-8213-8045-1

21 août 2018

Safer Homes, Stronger Communities : A Handbook for Reconstructing after Disasters was developed to assist policy makers and project managers engaged in large-scale post-disaster reconstruction programs make decisions about how to reconstruct housing and communities after natural disasters.
As the handbook demonstrates, post-disaster reconstruction begins with a series of decisions that must be made almost immediately. Despite the urgency with which these decisions are made, they have long-term impacts, changing the lives of those affected by the disaster for years to come.
As a policy maker, you may be responsible for establishing the policy framework for the entire reconstruction process or for setting reconstruction policy in only one sector. The handbook is emphatic about the importance of establishing a policy to guide reconstruction. Effective reconstruction is set in motion only after the policy maker has evaluated his or her alternatives, conferred with stakeholders, and established the framework and the rules for reconstruction.


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