Building-Back-Better in Post-Disaster Recovery: Lessons Learnt from Cyclone Idai-Induced Floods in Zimbabwe

作     者：Ernest Dube Gayan Wedawatta Kanchana Ginige Ernest Dube;Gayan Wedawatta;Kanchana Ginige

作者机构：Department of Development SciencesFaculty of Agribusiness and EntrepreneurshipMarondera University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology(MUAST)Marondera.Zimbabwe Department of Civil EngineeringSchool of Infrastructure and Sustainable EngineeringAston UniversityBirmingham B47ET.UK Department of Architecture and Built EnvironmentFaculty of Engineering and EnvironmentNorthumbria UniversityNewcastle upon Tyne NE48STUK 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Disaster Risk Science》 (国际灾害风险科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第12卷第5期

页      面：700-712页

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学科分类：081504[工学-水利水电工程] 08[工学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0815[工学-水利工程] 0706[理学-大气科学] 

主　　题：Build-back-better Cyclone Idai Flood hazard Post-disaster recovery Zimbabwe 

摘      要：This study evaluated the build-back-better considerations in post-disaster recovery,following the devastation of Chipinge and Chimanimani communities by Cyclone Idai-induced floods in *** in 2020,the study assessed the impact of Cyclone Idai-induced floods on communities in Chipinge and Chimanimani Districts of Zimbabwe;evaluated the build-back-better considerations;and analyzed the lessons *** on a qualitative approach and case study design,the study depended on focus group discussions,interviews,and researcher observations to gather data from 85 *** findings indicate that Cyclone Idai-induced floods seriously impacted human lives,infrastructure,and livelihoods of communities that had been living with flood risk and ***-back-better considerations were absent in much of the post-disaster recovery effort to address the cyclone disaster *** are important early lessons for both practitioners and community members to learn from the Cyclone Idai *** lessons still can inform policy and disaster risk reduction practice in the medium and long ***-back-better should be a mandatory objective in the recovery from any disaster *** training is also recommended to improve the disaster knowledge of stakeholders and increase local ability to cope with future disaster events.