Investigating the Relationships of Socioeconomic Factors Delaying Post-Disaster Reconstruction

摘要

Achieving communities resilient to natural disasters has been a big deal for the decisionmakers. It takes different time for the communities to recover from similar disasters, due to their different pre-disaster and post-disaster conditions. Many complicated social, economic, environmental, etc. conditions and their dynamic relationship and interaction should be considered to understand how they cause delays. This research aims to study how the barriers to disaster recovery affect the timeliness of recovery process and what is their relationships. Thus, the barriers were identified, and through a social network analysis (SNA), the relationships and interactions among them was modeled and analyzed. Among different barriers, damage to major infrastructure systems was recognized as the main cause of disaster recovery delays. Implementing the findings of this study, decision-makers of post-disaster recovery could plan to achieve a more resilient community by identifying the relationships among different preventive indicators and planning to avoid them.