Resilient Recovery from Disasters

Mittul Vahanvati is a co-lead of the Climate Change Transformations research program and a Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Urban Planning discipline at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focusses on the complex relationship between housing recovery after disasters and community resilience, to uphold housing as human right, with enhanced resilience.Elizabeth Maly is an Associate Professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, in Sendai Japan. With the theme of people-centered housing recovery, her research interests are community-based housing recovery and temporary, transitional and permanent housing provision within reconstruction - including policy, process and housing form - that support successful life recovery for disaster-affected people.Titaya Sararit is an Assistant Professor and Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs and Research at the Faculty of Architecture, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She received her PhD in the field of Architecture at Kobe University, Japan. Her research interests are housing recovery, temporary shelter for local community, community-based design and long-term recovery after floods, earthquakes, and tsunamis in Thailand.

• Chapter 1: A changing development geography intertwined with disasters, housing recovery and resilience.- Chapter 2: Indian case studies.- Chapter 3: Thailand case studies.- Chapter 4: Japan case studies.- Chapter 5: Cross-cultural insights from long-term analysis of housing recovery.