STORIES OF RURAL PEOPLE LIVING IN THE SETTLEMENTS BUILT AFTER EARTHQUAKES: A CASE STUDY FROM THE PROVINCE OF VAN, TURKEY

Year 2013, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 81 - 91, 01.06.2013

Didem Gunes Yilmaz

Abstract

After the earthquakes stricken the province of Van, the authorities acted quickly to provide permanent houses for the rural dwellers. Only a year after, the dwellers delivered their new dwellings that were built by the state or the contractors. Accordingly, this study focuses upon the dwellers and their perceptions for their newly built environment, in the contexts of migration, livelihood, approaches for reconstruction strategies and their post-occupancy evaluations. In parallel to the qualitative research approach for the study, in total 12 interviews were conducted in the villages of Topaktaş, Ozkaynak, Kozluca, Gedelova and Yalnızağaç. The interviewees’ contributions to the study helped to uncover the different insights of the reconstruction process as well as the post-earthquake socio-economical conditions from their own perspectives and with their own words

Keywords

post-disaster housing, socio-economic outcomes, the Van province

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