SUSTAINABLE POST DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION THROUGH INTEGRATED RISK MANAGEMENT – THE CASE OF RURAL COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH ASIA

Ensuring sustainability of interventions undertaken as part of post disaster reconstruction is one of the crucial challenges confronting the developing world. There are enough examples to show that in many cases, reconstruction serves to reinforce and sometimes-even increase the vulnerability of local communities. This is well exemplified in India by the case of reconstruction following Latur earthquake in 1993, Orissa super cyclone in 1999 and Gujarat earthquake of January 2001.