![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…
![Post-disaster decision making](https://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Humanitarian-Decision-Makers-Taxonomy-cropped-470x140.png)
Disaster recovery can be described as a ‘process of interaction and decision-making among a variety of groups and institutions’ (Mileti, 1999). It is also complex,…
![How to bridge theory, policy and practice in post-disaster shelter?](https://resilienturbanism.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Shelter-PechaKucha-Posters-470x140.jpg)
Earlier this year Laura Heykoop, Bernadette Devilat and I ran a Shelter Research PechaKucha to test one way of bridging the theory-policy-practice divide. The aim…
![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…