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Sheltering and Housing Recovery Following Disaster*

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Handbook of Disaster Research

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Reestablishing housing is a critical factor for understanding recovery processes, whether one is addressing the phenomenon at the household or community level. Researchers examining household or family recovery, for example, have utilized a variety of measures or indicators to capture different dimensions of recovery including psychological or perceptional measures related to stress, and sense of loss and recovery to more objective indicators such as regaining income, employment, household amenities, and household assets (Bates, 1982; Bolin, 1976, 1982, 1993, 1994; Bolin & Bolton, 1983; Bolin & Trainer, 1978; Peacock, Killian, & Bates, 1987). However, this research also suggests that fundamental to an overall assessment of household recovery is reestablishing permanent housing, or in the vernacular, home, because without establishing home, the ability of a household to carry out normal activities and reestablish a routine is limited and hampered (Bates & Peacock, 1987, 1993; Bolin & Trainer, 1978; Quarantelli, 1982). In short, delays in reestablishing housing all too often delay all other dimensions of recovery (Bolin, 1986).

*This work was supported by grants funded by the National Science Foundation (CMS-0100155) and Mid-America Earthquake Center through funding received from the National Science Foundation under Grant No. EEC-9701785. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the Mid-American Earthquake Center.

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  1. Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and the Sustainable Coastal Margins Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

    Walter Gillis Peacock (Director, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center and Professor)

  2. Department of Sociology, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA

    Nicole Dash

  3. Department of Environmental Studies, University of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois, USA

    Yang Zhang

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Peacock, W.G., Dash, N., Zhang, Y. (2007). Sheltering and Housing Recovery Following Disaster*. In: Handbook of Disaster Research. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32353-4_15

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