Abstract
Humanitarian housing technical assistance is believed to enhance the adoption of hazard-resistant construction knowledge; however, there is insufficient evidence about its impact on local construction-knowledge networks. This study explores the influence of technical assistance on knowledge acquisition and understanding by community-based construction actors. Self-perceived pathways to enlarge the influence of identified community-based key stakeholders are analyzed. Stakeholder perspectives are used for descriptive and social network analyses, comparing two districts that received contrasting levels of technical assistance during the reconstruction following the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal. Communities with limited humanitarian technical assistance revealed higher dependency on temporarily assigned noncommunity-based governmental engineers and lower levels of understanding than communities with extensive technical assistance. Results also highlighted the effectiveness of radio, television, and community meetings for knowledge acquisition. The results of the study indicated opportunities for more dialogue between local construction actors and governmental engineers to stimulate understanding and create more owner-satisfying designs.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Enhancing Disaster Preparedness |
| Subtitle of host publication | From Humanitarian Architecture to Community Resilience |
| Editors | A. Nuno Martins, M. Fayazi, F. Kikano, L. Hobeica |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Chapter | 4 |
| Pages | 59-81 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780128190784 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-12-819078-4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Disaster risk reduction
- Earthquake-resistant construction
- Knowledge acquisition
- Nepal
- Post-disaster reconstruction
- Social network analysis
- ITC-CV
- NLA
