Open AccessPost-disaster permanent housing: user participation and long-term satisfaction
Author(s) -
Bee Lan Oo
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/601/1/012019
Subject(s) - maturity (psychological) , term (time) , user satisfaction , empirical evidence , business , psychology , computer science , developmental psychology , philosophy , physics , epistemology , human–computer interaction , quantum mechanics
There is empirical evidence on varying levels of user satisfaction with the provided post-disaster permanent housing based on their levels of participation. This study compares non-participating and participating users’ long-term satisfaction with permanent housing constructed under the REKOMPAK (a community-based reconstruction program) after the 2010 Merapi volcano eruption. The results show that both groups have recorded highly similar levels of satisfaction with their permanent housing attributes with only four (out of 38) attributes that are statistically significantly different between the groups. These findings provide suggestive evidence on the maturity of the REKOMPAK program since it was created in 2005. This has implications for local authorities, humanitarian and other agencies in their decisions to adapt the REKOMPAK or other similar community-based programs for post-disaster reconstruction.