Making Things Happen : community participation and disaster reconstruction in Pakistan / Jane Murphy Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Jane Murphy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disaster relief.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 318 pages)

Other Title:

Making Things Happen

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2022.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Berghahn Books, viewed March 25, 2023).

ISBN:

9781800735620

1800735626