ABSTRACT
Disaster recovery is the least understood period of emergency management from both practice and research perspectives (Smith and Wenger 2007). The long-term recovery study is “seriously inadequate to the needs we face today” (Rubin 2009, 1). Recent research notes that disaster recovery should be conceptualized as a complicated social process (Nigg 1995), which includes a set of dynamic, interactive stages,
Introduction ............................................................................................................ 141 Disaster Impacts and Livelihood Losses ................................................................ 142 Research Methods .................................................................................................. 143 Recovery of Livelihood Assets .............................................................................. 144
Financial Capital ............................................................................................... 144 Human Capital .................................................................................................. 145 Natural Capital .................................................................................................. 146 Physical Capital ................................................................................................. 148 Social Capital .................................................................................................... 148
An Opportunity for Culture Revitalization ............................................................ 151 Conclusion and Discussion .................................................................................... 152 References .............................................................................................................. 153
activities, and decision-making processes (Mileti 1999; Natural Hazards Center 2005) rather than a linear, static issue (Haas, Kates, and Bowden 1977).
