Planning for Recovery: Ideas and Problematics. Ideas and Problematics.

Abstract

This chapter reflects critically on the theories and case studies advanced by the book's contributors, in parallel with existing theory and accepted wisdom. The chapter poses a series of questions and arguments regarding the next steps that need to be taken. In doing so, it pays heed to the spatially particular economic, social, and environmental qualities of different places. Drawing together selected elements of the extensive and now rapidly expanding literature covering practical cases, examples, and theory, we start with a discussion of recovery in the context of dynamically changing settlements. We set out a number of principles for the integration of urban planning and disaster risk re..