Words into Action Build Back Better in Recovery, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction

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These references provide additional resources to the Words into Action guidelines on building back better in recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction.

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27 May 2020

Remembering, forgetting, and absencing disasters in the post-disaster recovery process

Sustainable post-disaster recovery implies learning from past experience in order to prevent recreating forms of vulnerability. Memory construction supports both the healing process and redevelopment plans. Hence, memory of disaster results from the

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

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