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Record Nr.

UNISA996571845103316

Autore

Thomas Jane Murphy

Titolo

Making Things Happen : Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan / / Jane Murphy Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-80073-281-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Catastrophes in Context ; ; 5

Disciplina

363.34095491

Soggetti

Infrastructure (Economics) - Citizen participation - Pakistan

Disaster relief - Pakistan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The Moment the Quake Struck -- Contexts of a Reconstruction Site -- Community Participation: What Has Happened to It? -- The Social Component -- Social and Technical Integration -- PERRP Design and Construction -- The Library Challenge -- The Social Anthropology of Reconstruction -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"Drawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction. As the latter is often fraught with delays and even abandonment-one cause being ineffective interactions between construction and local people-PERRP used anthropological and participatory approaches. Along with strong construction management, such approaches led to the rebuilding being completed on time. As disasters are increasing in number and intensity, so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer"-- Provided by publisher.