Youth Leadership in Long-Term Recovery

Southasiadisasters.net issue no. 143, March 2016: This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is titled ‘Youth Leadership in Long Term Recovery’. Disaster recovery is an important phase of the disaster management cycle as it helps in the evolution of resilient communities. However, the voices of the youth are often left out of the recovery process. In January 2016, the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) invited 8 students from Oxford Brookes University to visit 2 districts of Gujarat to study the long-term impacts of recovery from the 2001 earthquake. This issue of Southasiadisasters.net is a compendium of the perspectives and views of these students on long-term recovery following 15 years after the Gujarat Earthquake. Contributions from John Twigg and other reputed academics are also included in this issue. This issue's contents includes: (i) Youth Leadership in Long-Term Recovery (ii) The Puzzle of Long-Term Recovery: Finding the Missing Pieces; (iii) Sustainability in Long-Term Recovery: Reflections from Kutch Earthquake Response Work; (iv) Looking Back and Looking Forward: A view of long term recovery from the 2001 Gujarat Earthquake; (v) Recovery through Livelihood Restoration; (vi) Building Communities through Settlement Planning; (vii) A Multi–Hazard Approach to Long-Term Recovery; (viii) Built Back Better? Disaster Recovery as an Opportunity for Improvement; (ix) Youth, DRR and Sustainable Development, and (x) From House to Home: Allowing for the safe adaptation of housing in reconstruction projects.