Making Things Happen
eBook - ePub

Making Things Happen

Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan

  1. 356 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Making Things Happen

Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Anecdotes and Ethnographies
  8. Preface. Stakeholder Remarks
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. List of Abbreviations
  11. Introduction. Disaster Strikes
  12. Chapter 1. The Moment the Quake Struck
  13. Chapter 2. Contexts of a Reconstruction Site
  14. Chapter 3. Community Participation: What Has Happened to It?
  15. Chapter 4. The Social Component
  16. Chapter 5. Social and Technical Integration
  17. Chapter 6. PERRP Design and Construction
  18. Chapter 7. The Library Challenge
  19. Chapter 8. The Social Anthropology of Reconstruction
  20. Conclusion
  21. Appendix. Schools and Health Facilities Constructed in the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (2006–2013)
  22. References
  23. Index