Coming Home after Disaster

Section I: Context and Concepts

Chapter 1: Disaster recovery and community renewal: housing approaches

Mary Comerio

Chapter 2: Post Disaster Housing Vulnerability: Getting People Back Home- Brenda Phillips

Chapter 3: Displacement, Relocation and Resettlement: Housing, Home, and Community Considerations

Ann-Margaret Esnard

Chapter 4: Financing Housing Recovery through Hazard Insurance: The Case of the National Flood Insurance Program

Mike Lindell, Wesley Highfield, and Samuel Brody

Chapter 5: The Politics of Disaster Recovery: Policy and Governance Challenges in Post-Disaster Housing

Alka Sapat

Section II: Understanding Housing Recovery in the United States

Chapter 6: The Texas Experience with 2008's Hurricanes Dolly and Ike

Shannon Van Zandt and Madison Sloan

Chapter 7: Affordable Housing and Disaster Recovery: A Case Study of the 2013 Colorado Floods

Andrew Rumbach & Carrie Makarewicz

Chapter 8: Tornado Housing Recovery

Brenda Phillips & Susamma Seeley

Chapter 9: Housing Recovery after Sandy: A Vignette Study

Ali Nejat, Souparno Ghosh, Zhen Cong & Daan Liang

Chapter 10: Emergency Sheltering and Temporary Housing Issues: Assessing the Disaster Experiences and Preparedness Actions of People with Disabilities to Inform Inclusive Emergency Planning in the United States

Brian Gerber

Section III: Housing Recovery in a Global Context

Chapter 11: Early Post-Disaster Shelter Recovery in Fragile States: A Case of the 12 January 2010 Haiti Earthquake

Emel Ganapati & Guitele Rahill

Chapter 12: Disaster Housing Recovery in Rural India: Lessons from 12 Years of Post-Tsunami Housing Efforts

Sudha Arlikatti and Simon Andrew

Chapter 13: Planning for Housing recovery after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China

Yang Zhang & William Drake

Chapter 14: Residential Relocation Processes in Coastal Areas: Tacloban City after Typhoon Yolanda

Kanako Iuchi and Elizabeth Maly

Section IV: Multiple Perspectives on Housing Recovery

Chapter 15: Meta-patterns in Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction and Recovery

Gonzalo Lizarralde, Fayazi Mahmood, Faten Kikano & Isabelle Thomas Maret

Chapter 16: Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Informal Settlers and the Right to Adequate Housing

Jennifer Duyne Barenstein

Chapter 17: Civil Society and Recovery: Non-governmental Organizations and Post-Disaster Housing

Alka Sapat

Chapter 18: Pre- and Post-Disaster Conditions, their Implications, and the Role of Planning for Housing Recovery

Gavin Smith

Chapter 19: Anticipating and Overcoming Regulatory and Legal barriers during Rebuilding and Resettlement

John Marshall, Adrienne La Grange, and Ann-Margaret Esnard