Marketing and Material Goods: Impact of Disaster Responders on Livelihood Strategies

Disasters are complex processes rather than isolated events. The experience of disasters evolves over time, changing the local cultural, social, political, economic, and power contexts. Thus, disasters are experienced through the individual, household, and community levels simultaneously. Taiban (2013) argues that traditional knowledge shapes responses and coping mechanisms. However, once local coping mechanisms are exhausted, migration from rural to urban zones often follows (Companion 2007, 2008, 2010a, 2010b, 2012, 2014).