ABSTRACT
Introduction ............................................................................................................ 168 Points of Departure ................................................................................................ 168 Conditions Influencing Recovery ........................................................................... 169
Access to Government Resources ..................................................................... 169 Economic Diversity ........................................................................................... 169 Social Vulnerability ........................................................................................... 169 Recovery Funds ................................................................................................. 170 Recovery Agency Embeddedness ..................................................................... 170
Research Method ................................................................................................... 170 Research Setting ................................................................................................ 171 Data Collection.................................................................................................. 171 Variable Calibration .......................................................................................... 171
Economic Recovery...................................................................................... 172 Access to Government Resources ................................................................ 174 Economic Diversity ...................................................................................... 174 Social Vulnerability ...................................................................................... 174 Recovery Funds ............................................................................................ 174 Recovery Agency Embeddedness ................................................................. 175
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ..................................................................... 175 Results .................................................................................................................... 175 Discussion .............................................................................................................. 177 Limitations ............................................................................................................. 178 Conclusion ............................................................................................................. 179 Acknowledgments .................................................................................................. 179 References .............................................................................................................. 179
In recent years, major disasters have highlighted the need to better understand how communities recover. The rising impact of disasters in developing countries is of particular concern, because losses and the required recovery efforts can perpetuate the conditions of extreme poverty (Pelling et al. 2004). In developing communities, people are more likely to maintain traditional forms of employment, work in the informal economy, or run financially marginal businesses. Therefore, they have fewer resources accumulated for use in the recovery process (Chang and Rose 2012). However, it may take years for a community to return to a steady economic recovery, especially given that post-disaster reconstruction programs may change local economies and temporarily inflate incomes and employment rates (Chang and Rose 2012). Economic aspects are only one facet of complete recovery; infrastructure, the environment and social network restoration are also critical (Comerio 1998; Wachtendorf et al. 2006).
