... workers complement the document review, offering insights beyond the written plans. Together, these sources allow for a critical assessment of how far Devecser’s rebuilding embodied BBB principles. Findings Devecser’s post-disaster reconstruction was completed rapidly and yielded visible improvements...

...Jorge León; María Ignacia Rojas; Soraya Gutiérrez; Randy Román Purpose To critically assess the reconstruction process's outcomes four months after a wildfire disaster in Viña del Mar, Chile, comparing the governmental reconstruction plan and the actual rebuilding efforts by the dwellers...

... the systems thinking approach to investigate the reconstruction program after the 2003 Bam earthquake in Iran. In-depth interviews are our main source of data that are carefully triangulated with findings from the review of documents and our direct observations. Findings We detected many shortcomings...

...Angelo Jonas Imperiale; Frank Vanclay Purpose We consider what happened in the initial reconstruction interventions following the 6 April 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila (Italy). Using the disaster risk reduction and resilience paradigm, we discuss the cognitive and interactional failures of top-down...

... reconstruction and recovery has traditionally been quite ad hoc, without any proper systems and processes in place to manage and guide the process (Le Masurier, 2015). The increasing number of disaster experiences recorded over recent years has led to more attention being placed on using legislative provisions...

...Hugo Romero; Cristian Albornoz Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the political and economic objectives sought by the government of Chile to understand the characteristics of the reconstruction process for housing damaged by the earthquake and tsunami of 27 February 2010...