Title: Assessment and Evaluation of Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction What Evaluation Models or Tools?
Abstract: There has been concern regarding the appropriateness of responses and interventions for Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction (PDHR). Insufficient physical and functional conditions, and performances of PDH may contribute to the scale and extension of damage from natural disasters and have been identified in increasing the risk of disasters. Responses and interventions for Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction (PDHR) should be more effective than pre-disaster development, and be more resilient to disasters. It urges the need for assessment and evaluation of PDHR interventions and programs. However, in the disaster recovery area in general, even the escalating need to evaluate the outcomes of recovery programs, governments and relief organisations use various approaches and methodologies. This paper highlights the importance of learning from recovery and reconstruction programs by conducting assessment and evaluation. It presents overview of the existing studies on evaluation of PDHR and attempts to identify the evaluation models, and tools used in the studies. Existing housing/building evaluation models, tools and framework that available on the related field of housing and building are also investigated. It is found that there are no standardised criteria or an agreed common approach for monitoring and evaluating recovery progress. Existing housing/building evaluation tools and models were designed to evaluate and assess broader aspects of housing and building, or issues that do not specifically address resilience, sustainability and risk reduction in the disaster context. Therefore, there is a need to develop specific evaluation tools and models for these purposes.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-05-03
Language: en
Type: article
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