Managing post disaster reconstruction projects through a cultural perspective: a literature review

Abstract

Post Disaster Reconstruction (PDR) is a very important, complex and highly demanding process, including well planned set of activities done by well experienced construction professionals. Strength in terms of sustainability, particularly in the PDR of developing countries, is undoubtedly still not at an adequate level. One of the main challenges that affecting for the success of the PDR project performance is that not managing community cultural continuity properly while affording development opportunities in PDR projects which end up with cultural incompatible solutions, which are unsustainable in the long run. The success of PDR project performance is based on the success of their main 4 components: site, layout, construction and policies. The study identifies how those components of PDR projects are affected by the community culture with the lessons learned by past PDR project experiences all around the world. Further, the cultural factors which affect for each feature of PDR has been identified through the findings. Besides the thorough literature findings, the study has presented with proposed methodological aspects in order to continue the study in future.