- Title
- Resilient housing reconstruction in the developing world
- Creator
- Ahmed, Iftekhar
- Relation
- Urban Planning for Disaster Recovery p. 171-188
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804276-2.00012-8
- Publisher
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- This chapter discusses key issues relating to resilient housing reconstruction in the developing world using an example from Haiti, a poor and disaster-prone country. Developing countries bear the brunt of disasters, and the housing sector is often the most severely impacted. Postdisaster housing reconstruction is an opportunity for building resilience, but it also has its challenges, especially because of wider linkages to livelihoods, urbanization, and climate change. It is therefore important to identify examples of good practice, presented here through a case study of the Villa Rosa project in Haiti. The project's achievements are based on development of elements of resilient construction, integration of community infrastructure and services, partnership between diverse agencies, owner-driven reconstruction, and local capacity building, and are backed by the narratives of project beneficiaries. The ability to achieve a high level of success despite the many challenges typical in such an impoverished and ravaged context offers valuable lessons on resilient housing reconstruction in the developing world. Given the specter of increasing disaster impacts in a fragile and turbulent world, this chapter underscores the necessity of prioritizing building resilience, particularly for the world's majority who are mostly at risk.
- Subject
- developing countries; disasters; Haiti; reconstruction; resilience
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1389781
- Identifier
- uon:32923
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780128042762
- Language
- eng
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