Making things happen : community participation and disaster reconstruction in Pakistan /
"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 construct...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st Edition. |
| Series: | Catastrophes in Context ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781800732810 1800732813 9781800735620 1800735626 |