![Urban planning after humanitarian crises: Supporting local actors to take the lead](https://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20141108_Victoria-Maynard_Guian-NDZ-470x140.jpg)
How can humanitarian actors support local government to lead recovery and reconstruction planning after urban crises? My current research project (with Elizabeth Parker, David Garcia…
![Freedom to participate: can the capability approach offer insight into participation in disaster recovery processes?](https://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Homeless-but-not-hopeless-470x140.jpg)
After a disaster, do people always have the capabilities to participate fully in the reconstruction and recovery process? In the development and humanitarian fields, we…
![Neighbourhood-based approaches to development, displacement, and disaster](https://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Flamands-139-470x140.jpg)
What do integrated neighbourhood approaches in Port-au-Prince, camp management-based approaches in Baghdad and participatory slum upgrading in Bangkok have in common? – well, a lot…
![Learning "lessons learned" from past disasters](https://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Learning_Lessons_learned_Graphic_21-470x140.jpg)
It is shocking how many “lessons learned” documents rehash the same lessons that had supposedly been learned already. The conclusion seems clear: we are very…
![Pasar Peunayong, Banda Aceh. Source: Norhasan This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license via http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pasar_Peunayong,_Banda_Aceh.jpg](https://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Pasar_Peunayong_Banda_Aceh-470x140.jpg)
Since the introduction of the Humanitarian Cluster Approach in 2005 ‘early recovery’ has become part of the common vocabulary of humanitarian action. But where does…
![Market day in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Credit: David Lallemant](https://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/market-day_cropped-470x140.jpg)
In my masters dissertation I investigated the relationship between the shelter assistance provided after disasters and the recovery of affected communities. While my research identified…
![Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 9 months after the Indian Ocean Tsunami. Source: Victoria Maynard](https://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Banda-Aceh_Indonesia_9-months-after-the-tsunami-e1372346098640-470x140.jpg)
Following a disaster local, national and international decision-makers make complex choices in a rapidly changing situation. They must match the needs of affected communities with…