Abstract
This chapter addresses disaster recovery. The theories related to disaster recovery including systems, vulnerability, socio-political ecology, feminist, and emergent norm theories and the models of disaster recovery including four-stage, top-down, holistic, community-based, and sustainable community development models are presented, with the focus on sustainable community development. The case of the recovery of the 5.12 Wenchuan earthquake is examined by adopting the six principles of sustainable community development. It is shown that overall the principles were not well implemented in this earthquake recovery. It is argued that China’s political system, unjust social policy, rapid recovery process, lack of recovery expertise, and the environmental characteristics of the earthquakeaffected areas might result in the poor implementation of sustainable community development principles in the recovery.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Handbook of disaster risk reduction & management |
| Editors | Christian N. Madu, Chu-Hua Kuei |
| Place of Publication | Singapore |
| Publisher | World Scientific Publishing |
| Chapter | 33 |
| Pages | 787-804 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9789813207950 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789813207943 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- China
- Disaster recovery
- Sustainable community development
- The wenchuan earthquake