Post-disaster reconstruction of the built environment: rebuilding for resilience

This book identifies the challenges faced by the construction industry after a disaster, including the restoration of permanent shelter and public services such as hospitals, schools, water supply, power, communications, and environmental infrastructure. It highlights best practices to enable this industry to address those problems which make an effective response to these unexpected events difficult.

Written by an international team of experts, this is intended to help researchers and advanced students of construction understand the problems faced by communities and the construction industry when faced with a natural or man made disaster, and identify the planning and management processes required by the industry to mount an effective response.