Resilient Recovery from Disasters: The Long-Term Outcomes of Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction in India,...

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Mittul Vahanvati Elizabeth Maly

Resilient Recovery from Disasters

The Long-Term Outcomes of Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction in India, Thailand and Japan...

Mittul Vahanvati, Elizabeth Maly, Titaya Sararit

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English

Palgrave Macmillan
01 June 2025

Architecture; Development studies; Human geography; Sustainability; Building construction & materials

This book is a call to action for housing recovery policymakers and practitioners to leverage foresight and planning capacities to achieve long-term resilience. For human societies to thrive in a rapidly changing climate and uncertain future, it is essential to learn about factors that can catalyse systemic change through disaster recovery processes. This book identifies key factors in housing recovery that meets housing rights of the most vulnerable, as well as help leapfrog to resilience strengthening of housing, its residents and institutions. To capture diverse experiences of stakeholders in various economies, socio-cultural, technical and political contexts, the authors draw from six cases of post-disaster housing reconstruction and rehabilitation projects from larger recovery programs, from three Asian countries – India, Thailand and Japan. This book identifies both unique and common findings. It is an essential resource for disaster recovery and housing practitioners, policymakers, students and researchers.

By: Mittul Vahanvati, Elizabeth Maly, Titaya Sararit
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Singapore
Edition: 2024 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9789819780464
ISBN 10: 9819780462
Pages: 189
Publication Date: 01 June 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: A changing development geography intertwined with disasters, housing recovery and resilience.- Chapter 2: Indian case studies.- Chapter 3: Thailand case studies.- Chapter 4: Japan case studies.- Chapter 5: Cross-cultural insights from long-term analysis of housing recovery.

Mittul Vahanvati is a co-lead of the Climate Change Transformations research program and a Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Urban Planning discipline at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focusses on the complex relationship between housing recovery after disasters and community resilience, to uphold housing as human right, with enhanced resilience. Elizabeth Maly is an Associate Professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, in Sendai Japan. With the theme of people-centered housing recovery, her research interests are community-based housing recovery and temporary, transitional and permanent housing provision within reconstruction - including policy, process and housing form - that support successful life recovery for disaster-affected people. Titaya Sararit is an Assistant Professor and Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs and Research at the Faculty of Architecture, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She received her PhD in the field of Architecture at Kobe University, Japan. Her research interests are housing recovery, temporary shelter for local community, community-based design and long-term recovery after floods, earthquakes, and tsunamis in Thailand.