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Rebuilding for resilience : a barrier island case, the Bolivar Peninsula, U.S.A. / Chamila Subasinghe.

9783030655327 (electronic book)
3030655326 (electronic book)
9783030655334 (print)
3030655334
9783030655341 (print)
3030655342
3030655318
9783030655310

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]

English

1 online resource (xvii, 128 pages) : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-030-65532-7 doi

HV635.5 .S93 2021

363.34/92209764139

Recurring extreme events of nature challenge disaster-prone settlements in complex ways. Devastating property damages are one of the tests of survival for such settlements in both economic and social terms. It also provides unique opportunities to rethink the environment cleared by massive natural disasters. However, rebuilding for long-term resiliency is one of the least investigated areas, particularly when employing tacit knowledge in the sustainable recovery process. This book builds a discursive field around the post-disaster rebuilding of Bolivar Peninsula aftermath Hurricane Ike to demonstrate reciprocity between disaster absorptive ecological formations such as barrier islands and their exploitative human occupation. In the process, it investigates the nexus between connectivity among open space networks to various levels of surge damage among Bolivar spontaneous settlements. Beyond scientific analyses, the Hurricane Ike study triangulates syntactical methods with structured observations and statistical analyses to offer a holistic reporting model for emerging scholars and independent investigators, which one may find quite absent in the mainstream disaster studies and journalism.

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