Design for Disaster Recovery - 9781032411569

Taylor & Francis Ltd

At a time of escalating urban disasters and sharply reduced aid budgets, humanitarian aid, long held in need of reform, has no choice but to reset. This book argues that humanitarian aid must accomplish this reset by prioritising people\u2019s agency and localising responses. This book provides lessons learned from leading practitioners working in urban development who dissented from established top-down practices to forge better, people-centred approaches. These lessons are compared with the wicked problem of post-disaster shelter provision, reviewing good approaches that work, and some bad ones that don\u2019t. This book ends by proposing three ways for aid to let go, through supporting and trusting people to do the right thing.\nThis book ultimately seeks to reinforce that engaging in processes\n\nDesign for Disaster Recovery\nPutting People First to Reset Humanitarian Aid in the Built Environment\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK del;