Providing a framework for post-disaster resilience factors in buildings and infrastructure from end-users’ perspectives: case study in Caribbean island states

What is it about?

Small island states' built environments, such as in the islands of the Caribbean region, continue to be negatively impacted by annual recurrences of climatological, meteorological, hydrological or geophysical disasters. The region also suffers from limited technical and financial resources which constrain reconstruction efforts, hence the need to investigate a comprehensive resilience factor guiding framework. Often neglected are the end-users perspectives on resiliency. This paper elicit these collective resilience perspectives, then formulate a new themed resilience framework for guiding construction developers and managers with developing more inclusive project objectives for improved resilient rebuilds.

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