ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts in this book. The book serves a useful guide to agencies acting in the reconstruction field to understand some of the core issues in the field and how they might be better addressed. The 12 projects discussed is implemented in different geographic contexts by a range of agencies show the great diversity of sustainable post-disaster housing reconstruction. They demonstrate approaches to building community resilience through housing when responding to bushfire, cyclone, earthquake and tsunami. More than resilient building products, success here results from linking these physical products to a wider set of social and institutional processes. While resilient designs and construction methods have been known for quite some time, implementing them on the ground is often extremely challenging. Several of the cases studies revealed the role of the government to be quite limited when clearly land supply and tenure are a key governmental responsibility.
