Utilizing Post-Disaster Development Opportunities after Bam Earthquake and the Role of Stakeholders | ||
| The International Journal of Humanities | ||
| Article 3, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 33-52 PDF (358.19 K) | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ali Asgary1; S. Ali Badri* 2; Mojtaba Rafieian3; Ali Hajinejad4 | ||
| 1Emergency Management, York University, Toronto, Canada. | ||
| 2Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran | ||
| 3Faculty of Art, Tarbiat Modares University | ||
| 4Department of Geography, Sistan & Baloochestan University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Disasters provide physical, social, political and environmental development windows of opportunities that can be used not only to reconstruct the impacted areas, but also to improve the socio-economic and physical conditions of the impacted population in the long run. It is argued, however, that there is a limited time frame of approximately four years for such opportunities to be utilized efficiently. Bam earthquake in December 2003 that killed more than 27000 and devastated the historical part of the city opened several unique opportunities for mitigation, socio-economic and physical development. This paper examines the roles that various stakeholders played in the Bam reconstruction and their contribution to the success and failure of utilizing disaster development opportunities. The results show that stakeholders’ collaboration and participation, knowledge and experience, long-term and holistic visions, division of labour and use of resources have had significant influence on the success and failure of using post-disaster opportunities. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Post-disaster reconstruction; Development opportunities; Bam earthquake; Iran | ||
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