What are the 3 crucial phases of disaster risk management cycle/continuum?
Recovery, reconstruction, and rehabilitation.
What are the 3 crucial phases of disaster risk management cycle/continuum?
Recovery, reconstruction, and rehabilitation.
What are the general aim and objectives of recovery, reconstruction, and rehabilitation?
To reduce vulnerabilities and increase resilience.
What is the definition of recovery according to UNDRR?
The restoring or improving of livelihoods and health, as well as economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets, systems and activities, of a disaster-affected community or society, aligning with the principles of sustainable development and “build back better”, to avoid or reduce future disaster risk.
What does the long-term recovery and reconstruction phase of disaster management encompass?
It encompasses the activities that include restoring the socio-economic structure of the society that was disrupted by the disaster through various interventions, restoring the social and economic life of the affected citizens to its pre-disaster state, and rebuilding the damaged structures such as houses, shops, animal centers, infrastructure, dams, and power supply.
What is the title of the leading, pioneering, and complete text with a strong literature review on disaster recovery by Gavin P. Smith and Dennis Wenger?
Sustainable Disaster Recovery: Operationalizing an Existing Agenda
According to Ahrens and Rudolph, what is the root cause of disaster susceptibility?
Institutional failure
What is the influence of development on vulnerability, resiliency and recovery?
More or better development reduces vulnerability, increases resiliency, and eases and fastens recovery.
Why is recovery seen as the most complex phase of the disaster risk management cycle?
It involves multiple sectors and actors with various involvement and direct requirements to respond to the needs of the communities affected.
What is resiliency?
Ability of individuals, communities, and systems to withstand, adapt to, and recover from disasters or shocks.
What is the relationship between recovery and resiliency?
Resiliency supports effective recovery by providing a foundation for preparedness before disasters and enabling communities to recover quickly. At the same time, recovery actions can build greater resilience to reduce future risk.
What are some of the global-level organizations that provide recovery activities?
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
The International Recovery Platform
What are the three stages of recovery process?
1) Short-term, 2) mid-term (aka medium-term), and 3) long-term
What are the actions that are considered as long-term recovery?
Actions such as identification of mitigation projects for future risk reduction, fundraising, hazard-risk, and vulnerability assessments, communication, building code regulations, land use designs, mental health, and social support are considered as longterm recovery.
What were the two consecutive and interlinked disasters that hit Indonesia on September 28, 2018?
An earthquake and a tsunami.
What is the definition of rehabilitation according to UNDRR?
The restoration of basic services and facilities for the functioning of a community or a society affected by a disaster.
What were the two significant weaknesses related to the disaster recovery phase in Türkiye as of the 2000s according to Ganapati (2008)?
1) Lack of a coordinative agency
2) Exclusion of local governments and communities from disaster recovery processes
What is economic rehabilitation?
The rehabilitation that individuals, communities, and broader communities need to sustain their livelihoods.
What is the psychological disorder commonly faced by disaster survivors?
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
When was "Build Back Better" slogan first introduced?
After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
What is the importance of BBB?
BBB provides an opportunity to have a safer, stronger, and more resilient system than before event time. It enforces building code implementation in seismic hazard areas, promotes resilient agriculture strategies in drought areas, encourages business continuity plans in small and medium enterprises, promotes the use of technology in manufacturing processes, and so on.