Citizen participation in disaster recovery projects and programmes in rural communities: a comparison of the Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina

Disasters

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 498-518

  Pyles, Loretta ^a   Svistova, Juliana ^b   Ahn, Suran ^c   Birkland, Tom ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Korea Institute fo Health and Social Affairs   (South Korea)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

capabilities approach; disaster recovery; Haiti earthquake; Hurricane Katrina; participation

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HAITI EARTHQUAKE 2010; HOMEOWNERSHIP; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; LOGISTICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; HAITI; HISPANIOLA; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HAITI; HUMAN; HURRICANE; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIEF WORK; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; CYCLONIC STORMS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HAITI; HUMANS; MALE; RELIEF WORK; RURAL POPULATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85048618320     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/disa.12260     Document Type: Article

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