ABSTRACT
The catastrophic effect of global disasters and climate change has had dire consequences within social, economic, and ecological environments at individual, family, and community levels (Gillespie and Danso, 2010). According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), from 2010 to 2014, disasters have forced approximately 131.4 million people worldwide to be relocated from their original homes (IDMC, 2015). Following these enormous disaster-caused displacements, almost all evacuated communities have had to endure the different stages of post-disaster reconstruction and recovery. On the brighter side, this has provided valuable redevelopment opportunities, especially for vulnerable and marginalised communities (Wu, 2014). The United Nations’ (UN) 2015 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction established new requirements for post-disaster reconstruction and recovery, which ‘more effectively protect persons, communities, and countries, their livelihoods, health, cultural heritage, socioeconomic assets and ecosystems, and thus strengthen their resilience’ (United Nations, 2015: 10).
