Beyond Shelter after Disaster: Practice, Process and Possibilities

David Sanderson has over 20 years’ experience in humanitarian aid, mostly with NGOs. He is currently a Professor and Director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) at Oxford Brookes University.Jeni Burnell trained as an architect before pursuing a career in community art, architecture and development. She has a Master’s degree in development and emergency practice and is currently a Research Associate at CENDEP, Oxford Brookes University. Her specialisations include shelter after disaster and community-led development using the ‘Small Change’ approach.

• 1. Introduction. Beyond shelter after disaster: practice, process and possibilities Part one: practice 2. What have we learned from 40 years’ experience of Disaster Shelter? 3. Harnessing time: Reflections on constraints to development 4. Post-disaster reconstruction: A current analysis of Gujarat’s response after the 2001 earthquake Part two: process 5. Resilient dwellings or resilient people? Towards people-centred reconstruction 6. Community-led resettlement: from a flood- affected slum to a new society in Pune, India 7. Lost in translation? The challenges of an equitable post-disaster reconstruction process: lessons from Chile Part three: possibilities 8. Is there a human right to shelter after disaster? 9. Can humanitarian responses in urban areas reinforce underlying causes of vulnerability? Tweaking a livelihoods analysis of inequality and infrastructure in splintering cities 10. From research to practice (and vice versa) for post-disaster settlement and shelter 11. Disability and public shelter in emergencies

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