ABSTRACT
This chapter brings to a close writing on varied aspects of disaster recovery. A resilient recovery may occur at the community level and, in any case, will certainly involve the community. Risk reduction needs to be a continuous process that adapts to changing vulnerabilities and probably also to both changes in hazards and improvements in knowledge about them. Resilience in a structural sense means designing buildings and other constructions to resist known or hypothesised forces. Hence, maps of hazard and vulnerability need to be refreshed at intervals or whenever substantial change has occurred. The disaster is used as an opportunity to rebuild systems and structures to a higher standard of resistance than before and, thus, to advance the cause of disaster risk reduction. The International Recovery Platform (IRP) is a 'thematic platform of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) system' and was established as a key pillar for the implementation of the HFA.
