ÔDisaster research owes a lot to development studies and yet the debt is often not
acknowledged. In this scholarly but accessible book by Sarah Bradshaw, we see a very …

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology.
This is a critical area of study, as more than half of the world's population now lives in cities …

Building livelihood resilience to natural disasters holds the key to sustained income
generation and economic development in disaster-affected areas. This paper identifies the …

This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of architectural heritage and its
conservation in a post-disaster context by taking into account the interrelationship of form …

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted global mobility.'Lockdowns' and travel
bans have been used as control measures by international governments. Consequently, the …

Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal areas of several countries in South
East Asia, there has been renewed interest in disaster recovery operations. Although …

One afternoon in October 2007, during my first week in Aceh and only a couple of days after
I moved into the neighborhood in which I would conduct a large part of my research over the …

Abstract “Lives or livelihoods” is a hard trade-off when confronting COVID-19, especially for
cities in the Global South. Countermeasures to protect people's lives may exert negative …

This article aims to interrogate how local government and community in Banda Aceh define
heritage, especially built-heritage. We argue the Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD) …

Heritage has become a driver of development as stated in the New Urban Agenda 2016
report. A starting premise of most recent studies of the concept of heritage suggests that its …