ABSTRACT
Disaster recovery is focused on the transition of the built environment, business, people, and their communities back to a state of acceptable operation after an event such as an earthquake or hurricane, which requires long-term planning and commitment to achieve recovery goals. Disaster recovery will operate at varying space and time scales subject to the nuances of the places undergoing the recovery (Stevenson et al., 2010). For example, disaster recovery can also be seen as a part of the disaster response phase in the case of
short-term recovery efforts such as returning people that have been temporarily displaced to their homes. Furthermore, disaster recovery can be viewed as a disaster planning activity in terms of developing plans for recovery such as contracts for debris removal that are implemented once an actual disaster occurs or making observations of disaster zones using remote sensing technologies to measure redevelopment progress (Wagner, Myint, and Cerveny, 2012).
