Opdyke, A (2017) Resilient and sustainable infrastructure systems: A comparative analysis of post-disaster shelter coordination, stakeholder participation, and training. PhD thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
Abstract
Sustainable infrastructure that is used and maintained by communities over time, and resilient to hazards, is sorely needed in developing countries where natural disasters cause disproportionate damages and mortality as well as impede development efforts. Shelter is universally recognized as a foundational element of disaster recovery; and while its ability to provide protection from the elements is a core function, it also affords broader social and economic benefits. Unfortunately, conventional approaches in post-disaster shelter reconstruction focus primarily on rapid and recognizable results over long-term outcomes, perpetuating pre-existing vulnerabilities and failing to provide acceptable standards of service. There exists a need to better understand how shelter recovery processes employed by stakeholders lead to eventual infrastructure system outcomes. This research longitudinally analyzed 19 humanitarian shelter projects following Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) in the Philippines over a three-year period, seeking to answer the overarching research question of what combinations of coordination, stakeholder participation and training across project delivery phases lead to resilient and sustainable community infrastructure systems? A multi-method approach consisting of case study methods and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) was employed to analyze the impact of combinations of project processes in leading to infrastructure outcomes. This research (1) identified key factors influencing inter-organizational coordination in post-disaster contexts; (2) identified types of household participation that arise in shelter projects and analyzed their impact on project outcomes; (3) identified methods of construction training used in shelter projects and their impact on household knowledge acquisition; and (4) analyzed combinations of coordination, participation, and training across the planning, design, and construction phases of shelter projects that led to infrastructure resilience and sustainability, in isolation and combination. The results contribute to understanding of shelter processes and organizing structures necessary for resilient and sustainable systems, building theory of reconstruction process pathways. Practically, findings can aid practitioners identify more effective modalities of delivering shelter assistance in post-disaster humanitarian response.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Thesis advisor: | Javernick-Will, A |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | coordination; fuzzy set; hazards; sustainability; natural disaster; standards; construction phase; developing countries; disaster recovery; participation; project delivery; training; stakeholders; Philippines; qualitative comparative analysis; case study |
| Index terms: | project outcome, fuzzy set, reconstruction, recovery, humanitarian, case study, construction phase, stakeholder participation, project delivery, coordination, mortality, household, knowledge acquisition, disaster recovery, qualitative comparative analysis, damages, comparative analysis, sustainable community, natural disaster, developing country, infrastructure resilience, Philippines, practitioner, vulnerability |
| Subjects: | operations management, principle, practitioner, project completion, communities and social development, decision-making and optimization, environmental hazards, demography, building construction, Geography, development economics, research methods, data analysis and analytics, project delivery, health monitoring assessment and metrics, risk management, community and social dimensions, dispute resolution, data collection methods, student development, emergency and crisis management, management |
| Topics: | Education, Legal Issues, Ethics, Sustainability, Procurement, Health and Safety, Engineering Principles, Project Management, Geographical Context, Organizational Design, Urban Studies, International Construction, Roles and Professions, Stakeholder Management, Research Practice |
| Descriptive scope: | 5 PCTEA |
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