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Disaster Recovery Toward Attaining Sustainable Development Goals

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No Poverty

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Restore; Retrieve; Revive

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The word “recovery” incepted from Anglo-French “recoverie” since mid-14C which was defined to “return to health” (online etymology dictionary). Besides health science, it is used in technology, infrastructure, business, etc. to return back to previous stage. Disaster impacts in multi-sectors and disaster recovery means to recover the disrupted living conditions of disaster-affected people, restore the damaged physical assets, and rehabilitate the associated social and economic conditions. It is a process in which an individual or a community prepares for the post-disaster management including formulation of policies, regulations, plan, and strategies, provisioning of resources based on need assessment, and effectively implementing the interventions during emergency, recovery, and longer-term restoration. Recovery is the action of the restoration or revitalization of economic, physical, social, cultural, and environmental assets of...

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  1. Nepal Open University, Lalitpur, Nepal

    Ramji Bogati

  2. National Disaster Risk Reduction Center, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Madhu Sudan Gautam

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  5. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  6. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. The University of Sydney Business School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Ranjit Voola PhD

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Bogati, R., Gautam, M.S. (2020). Disaster Recovery Toward Attaining Sustainable Development Goals. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) No Poverty. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69625-6_56-1

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