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Making things happen [electronic resource] : community participation and disaster reconstruction in Pakistan / Jane Murphy Thomas

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Thomas, Jane Murphy
Published
New York : Berghahn Books, 2022.
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1st Edition.
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1 online resource
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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.
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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ISBN
9781800732810 (open access ebook)
9781800735613 (Hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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