ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 initiates the construction of Sarvodaya’s, Phase 5 – Climate change, post-disaster reconstruction and the holistic framework of development, based on the fieldwork conducted on the three post-tsunami reconstruction villages of Damniyamgama, Addapalam and Vaddavan. The chapter introduces Sarvodaya’s theory of holistic development and its three-sphere model of Consciousness, Economics and Power to an analysis of its ‘5R’ stages of post-disaster reconstruction – namely Relief, Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, Reconciliation and Reawakening – in response to the destruction caused by the 2004 tsunami. This chapter examines the first two Rs Relief and Reconstruction in relation to the Economic Sphere and Sarvodaya’s Ten Basic Needs approach to Reconstruction.
