Disaster and Displacement: Exploring the Physical and Social Dimensions of Resettlement and Reconstruction

Acknowledging the multidimensional nature of disasters’ impacts and subsequent recovery pathways as well as the central role of communities’ agency, this book introduces and discusses the political, architectural and social dimensions of disaster-induced displacement and reconstruction in the long-term view. The impact of disasters on cities and housing worldwide is expected to be magnified by climate change, threatening to displace people temporarily or permanently, with cascading impacts ...