Rebuilding lessons from bushfire-affected communities in Victoria, Australia

Title: Rebuilding lessons from bushfire-affected communities in Victoria, Australia
Creator: Ireton, Greg; Ahmed, Iftekhar
Relation: Community Engagement in Post-Disaster Recovery p. 11-21
Relation: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315534213
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2018
Description: After the 2009 ‘Black Saturday’ bushfires in Australia, the Victorian Government provided a range of rebuilding support. Quick rebuilding of housing was assumed to be the priority, but many people did not desire to rebuild or were not prepared for this. Thus ‘holding the space’, enabling people to find suitable short-term accommodation, included building temporary villages and other forms of interim assistance. This experience points to a number of lessons indicating that policy makers and professionals should explore a range of housing options that are quick to build, offer a good quality of life, are affordable for most, and have design flexibility for future use.
Subject: disaster relief; community development; bushfires; Black Saturday; Victoria, Australia; rebuilding
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1409291
Identifier: uon:35986
Identifier: ISBN:9781138691650
Language: eng

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