THE COBACORE PROJECT - A COMMUNITY-BASED APPROACH TO DISASTER RECOVERY

摘要

Disaster recovery is a complex process that takes place over a prolonged period of time with many factors, actors, considerations and conditions at play. Rebuilding a disaster-affected area to a self-sustaining state is a daunting task, and requires a high degree of community effort and comprehensive knowledge about the affected environment. All too often, these requirements are not properly met, leading to a long recovery trajectory and misalignments between recovery efforts and community needs. We argue that most issues in disaster recovery stem from "collaboration gaps": flawed organizational structures between stakeholder parties that exist between levels of operation and between phases in the recovery process. In this short paper, we introduce the COBACORE project (Community-Based Comprehensive Recovery - www.cobacore.eu) that aims to reduce those gaps, and present its ambitions, approach and current status.