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Digging deeper: participation and non-participation in post-disaster community recovery

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  • Divya Chandrasekhar

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Stakeholder participation is widely acknowledged as being critical to post-disaster recovery, but little is known about the dynamics and decision processes that lead to this participation or to non-participation. More in-depth knowledge of these dynamics can lead to more targeted and timely intervention by development practitioners managing the process. This paper presents key conclusions of a study which analyzed stakeholder participation using qualitative data inquiry methods in the recovery of three coastal villages of Nagapattinam (India) after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The first key conclusion is that participation and non-participation are a complex function of stakeholder presence and stakeholder impact. Secondly, stakeholder power, legitimacy, trust, and urgency for action affect the forms and continuation of participation and non-participation. And lastly, time constraints and rapidly changing recovery conditions change stakeholder legitimacy, power, trust, and urgency over time, thus reaffirming some imbalances while also creating new opportunities to redress others.

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  • Divya Chandrasekhar, 2012. "Digging deeper: participation and non-participation in post-disaster community recovery," Community Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(5), pages 614-629, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:comdev:v:43:y:2012:i:5:p:614-629
    DOI: 10.1080/15575330.2012.730538
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    2. Emadul Islam & Haris Bin Abd Wahab & Odessa Gonzalez Benson, 2022. "Community Participation in Disaster Recovery Programs: A Study of a Coastal Area in Bangladesh," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 34(5), pages 2438-2462, October.
    3. He, Lulu, 2019. "Identifying local needs for post-disaster recovery in Nepal," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 118(C), pages 52-62.
    4. Devendraraj Madhanagopal & Sarmistha Pattanaik, 2020. "Exploring fishermen’s local knowledge and perceptions in the face of climate change: the case of coastal Tamil Nadu, India," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 22(4), pages 3461-3489, April.
    5. Alberto Amore & C Michael Hall & John Jenkins, 2017. "They never said ‘Come here and let's talk about it’: Exclusion and non-decision-making in the rebuild of Christchurch, New Zealand," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 32(7), pages 617-639, November.

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