
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities : A Handbook for Reconstructing After Natural Disasters.
Title:
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities : A Handbook for Reconstructing After Natural Disasters.
Author:
Jha, Abhas Kumar.
ISBN:
9780821382684
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (723 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- The Process of Response and Reconstruction -- A Note to the Policy Maker -- A Note to the Project Manager -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Guiding Principles -- PART 1 Reconstruction Tasks and How to Undertake Them -- Section 1 Assessing Damage and Defining Reconstruction Policy -- Chapter 1 Early Recovery: The Context for Housing and Community Reconstruction -- Chapter 2 Assessing Damage and Setting Reconstruction Policy -- Annex 1 How to Do It: Conducting a Post-Disaster Housing Sector Assessment -- Annex 2 How to Do It: Assessing Post-Disaster Housing Damage -- Chapter 3 Communication in Post-Disaster Reconstruction -- Annex 1 How to Do It: Conducting a Communication-Based Assessment -- Annex 2 Culture and Other Contextual Factors in Communication -- Chapter 4 Who Gets a House? The Social Dimension of Housing Reconstruction -- Annex 1 How to Do It: Considerations in Designing a Social Protection System for Natural Disasters -- Annex 2 How to Do It: Conducting a Post-Disaster Social Assessment -- Chapter 5 To Relocate or Not to Relocate -- Annex How to Do It: Developing a Post-Disaster Resettlement Plan -- Chapter 6 Reconstruction Approaches -- Section 2 Planning Reconstruction -- Chapter 7 Land Use and Physical Planning -- Annex 1 How to Do It: Undertaking a Comprehensive Planning Process -- Annex 2 How to Do It: Post-Disaster Planning Where Planning Law and Institutional Capacity Are Weak -- Chapter 8 Infrastructure and Services Delivery -- Chapter 9 Environmental Planning -- Annex 1 How to Do It: Developing a Disaster Debris Management Plan -- Annex 2 How to Do It: Carrying Out Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Monitoring of Reconstruction Projects -- Chapter 10 Housing Design and Construction Technology.
Annex Adapting Vernacular Building Technologies: Some Good Practices -- Chapter 11 Cultural Heritage Conservation -- Section 3 Project Implementation -- Chapter 12 Community Organizing and Participation -- Annex 1 How to Do It: Establishing a Community Facilitation System for Post-Disaster Housing and Community Reconstruction -- Annex 2 How to Do It: Developing a Community Participation Profile -- Chapter 13 Institutional Options for Reconstruction Management -- Chapter 14 International, National, and Local Partnerships in Reconstruction -- Chapter 15 Mobilizing Financial Resources and Other Reconstruction Assistance -- Annex 1 How to Do It: Deciding Whether to Procure and Distribute Reconstruction Materials -- Annex 2 How to Do It: Establishing a Grievance Redressal System -- Chapter 16 Training Requirements in Reconstruction -- PART 2 Monitoring and Information Management -- Chapter 17 Information and Communications Technology in Reconstruction -- Annex 1 How to Do It: A Primer on Acquiring Satellite Images -- Annex 2 A Primer on GIS and GIS Data Sources -- Chapter 18 Monitoring and Evaluation -- Annex 1 How to Do It: Conducting an Impact Evaluation of a Reconstruction Project -- Annex 2 How to Do It: Conducting a Social Audit of a Reconstruction Project -- Chapter 19 Mitigating the Risk of Corruption -- Annex 1 How to Do It: Developing a Project Governance and Accountability Action Plan -- Annex 2 How to Do It: Conducting a Corruption Risk Assessment -- Annex 3 How to Do It: Conducting a Construction Audit -- PART 3 Information on World Bank Projects and Policies -- Chapter 20 World Bank Response to Crises and Emergencies -- Annex Processing Steps for Emergency Operations -- Chapter 21 Safeguard Policies for World Bank Reconstruction Projects -- Annex Selected Safeguard Policy Summaries.
Chapter 22 Financial Management in World Bank Reconstruction Projects -- Chapter 23 Procurement in World Bank Reconstruction Projects -- PART 4 Technical References -- Disaster Types and Impacts -- Disaster Risk Management in Reconstruction -- Sources of Disaster Data -- Matrix of Disaster Project Features -- Glossary -- Index -- Back cover.
Abstract:
Best practices in post-disaster housing and community reconstruction are constantly evolving. Technology is changing how reconstruction is done, as is the frequency and severity of the disasters themselves. Reconstruction projects are increasingly focused on the need to reduce future risks by ensuring that what is rebuilt is safer and more disaster-resilient than what was there before. The expanding role of communities in managing community reconstruction, with financial and technical assistance from government, is another way reconstruction is changing.Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing after Natural Disasters provides advice on how to ensure that reconstruction empowers communities to rebuild, and gives them the support they need to build back in a way that the risk of future disasters is greatly reduced. Written for policy makers and project managers engaged in major housing and community reconstruction programs, the handbook provides guidance on the roles and responsibilities of various actors, and explains what the scope of a reconstruction policy should be and how decisions in each aspect of reconstruction contribute to larger reconstruction goals. For project managers who will be charged with implementing reconstruction policy, the handbook provides guidance on the options that should be considered in each aspect of reconstruction, and examples of where they have been used in other reconstruction projects. It includes more than one hundred short case studies collected from global experts with recent experience in housing reconstruction, that illustrate how the policies and practical ideas have been used on the ground. It also includes links to extensive technical information on the topics covered by the handbook.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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