Making Things Happen - Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan

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.

About the author

Jane Murphy Thomas is an independent consultant, practitioner, project manager and social anthropologist in projects for UN agencies, NGOs, governments, donor agencies, and consulting firms, specializing in anthropological approaches and community participation in conflict and disaster-prone locations.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Murphy Thomas, Thomas Jane Murphy
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.2024
• EAN: 9781805393405
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-340-5
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Catastrophes in Context
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Pakistan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social impact of environmental issues, Social and cultural anthropology, Social impact of disasters, Civil engineering, surveying and building, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made), SDG 11