Dear Sra. De La Cruz, I believe that you are on the right track. Helping people with immediate housing needs as well as rebuilding communities is possible and I agree that conservators can have role in that process.
An inclusive and responsive approach to recovery is a goal of many national emergency plans - such as the US Federal National Recovery Framework. In the US the NDRF is a direct outcome from the issues related to recovery after Hurricane Katrina in 2010, so the ability to see how this process has worked is limited and results have been uneven. There are resources here, although they are not specifically about earthquake recovery: US FEMA Recovery Lessons Learned & Information Sharing https://www.fema.gov/recovery-lessons-learned-information-sharing Disaster Recovery as a Social Process (link on FEMA site is broken - this is correct) http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/625 http://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/625/PP219.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Reports from the Christchurch earthquake sequence may be a useful case study for you: Christchurch New Zealand 2010-11 Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) 2011-2016 CERA Document Archive http://ceraarchive.dpmc.govt.nz/ Recovery Strategy for Greater Christchurch http://ceraarchive.dpmc.govt.nz/documents/recovery-strategy-greater-christchurch https://www.planning.org.nz/Story?Action=View&Story_id=2361 Land Use Recovery Plan (LURP) http://ceraarchive.dpmc.govt.nz/documents/land-use-recovery-plan-lurp Whole of Government Report: Lessons from the Canterbury earthquake sequence https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/whole-government-report-lessons-canterbury-earthquake-sequence Commentary on Whole of Government Report https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/business/the-rebuild/95214348/canterbury-earthquake-recovery-authority-missed-opportunities--government-report Other recent recovery experiences from earthquakes in Italy (2016-17), Chile (2010), and Haiti (2010) may also have valuable lessons for you but I am less familiar with any reports or literature from those disasters. The recovery after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan (2011) has a degree of complexity that may make it a less useful case study for you. You can contact me directly and I can get you in touch with people in New Zealand that may be able to assist you. I hope in some small way these resources help you and others in México during this extremely difficult time, Andrew Robb Head, Special Format Conservation Section Conservation Division, LM-G38 Library of Congress Washington DC 20540-4530 1 202 707-1175 anro at loc.gov In response to: Message: 2 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 00:07:17 -0500 From: "V. De La Cruz" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Consdistlist] Experience with disaster recovering procedures? Message-ID: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Dear all, I live in Oaxaca, Mexico, where we had a very strong earthquake the 7th of this month. The government has been doing surveys of the damages, and several persons and NGOs have started to think about how to help with the reconstruction. The response of the government after other natural disasters has been to build standard housing that has not worked for the climate and living traditions of the areas. The istmo de Tehuantepec, which is the area most affected on september 7th, does not have many important historic monuments, but it does have vernacular architecture and a distinctive architectural landscape worth preserving. Something that may be worth mentioning is that there are old adobe and bajareque houses that standed well the earthquake. I think that this tragedy can become a chance to improve the earthquake resistance of the vernacular architecture. I also think that promoting a participative design of the reconstruction is important, however I do not know if it is someth ing doable when starting reconstruction is urgent (many people live on the streets, even if their houses still stand, they are afraid because so far the aftershocks have been more than three thousand!). My question for you is if anyone can tell me abut their experience with recovery after disasters and/or share with me some bibliography. I would like to insert the conservators perspective in the decision making (if that is possible, I don?t know) and the practical experiences of others would help me a lot. Thanks in advance, Vera De La Cruz ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
