Theorizing a Social Repair Orientation to Disaster Recovery: Developing Insights for Disaster Recovery Policy and Programming

Review Paper: Approaches to Post-disaster Environmental Recovery

Background: Environment and its ecosystems are affected by various natural and man-made disasters. The environmental management in disasters tries to protect ecosystems, sustain development, reduce disaster risk, and adapt to or decrease the impact of climate change. This study aimed to investigate the impact of disasters on the environment and methods of reducing these effects....

social capital in post disaster recovery

background:  some  disaster-stricken  people  in  iran  are  still  experiencing  challenges  of resuming normal life several months after the incident. however, there is not sufficient and in-depth understanding of the factors affecting the complex process of post disaster recovery in iran and rural areas in particular. this study aimed to explore the status of social capital in the process of...

Opportunistic Disaster Recovery

Disaster scenarios require different recovery solutions such as evacuation guidance, to perform the right action for wounded persons and efficiency diffuse useful alert for locating trapped survivors. These latter are constrained mainly by the infrastructure-less environment caused by the disaster damage (e.g. storm, earthquake). Exploiting opportunistic communications to design recovery soluti...

Disaster recovery also involves human recovery.

Recovery and Reconstruction after Disaster

Definition Disaster recovery. Disaster recovery has three distinct but interrelated meanings. First, it is a goal that involves the restoration of normal community activities that were disrupted by disaster impacts – in most people’s minds, exactly as they were before the disaster struck. Second, it is a phase in the emergency management cycle that begins with stabilization of the disaster cond...