Housing recovery outcomes after typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines : a critical realist perspective
(2019) In Journal of Critical Realism 18(2). p.142-168- Abstract
Typhoon Haiyan damaged around a million houses in the Philippines in November 2013. It especially affected the poor. Using a realist laminated ontology, this paper explains how multiple causal mechanisms triggered unexpected outcomes in the housing recovery programme in the province of Leyte. The proposed causal mechanisms were: the intentional causal agency of the Filipino power elite; the collaboration–competition dilemma among individual agents and social structures; the constraints faced by the National Housing Authority with regards to procurement and budget; unfreedoms for resilient resettlement; secondary side effects of land and resettlement policies; and the under the table practice of bribery. The combination of these multiple... (More)
Typhoon Haiyan damaged around a million houses in the Philippines in November 2013. It especially affected the poor. Using a realist laminated ontology, this paper explains how multiple causal mechanisms triggered unexpected outcomes in the housing recovery programme in the province of Leyte. The proposed causal mechanisms were: the intentional causal agency of the Filipino power elite; the collaboration–competition dilemma among individual agents and social structures; the constraints faced by the National Housing Authority with regards to procurement and budget; unfreedoms for resilient resettlement; secondary side effects of land and resettlement policies; and the under the table practice of bribery. The combination of these multiple causal mechanisms generated emergent outcomes such as low output of permanent post-disaster housing, generic housing solutions that cannot be extended, reproduction of pre-disaster vulnerabilities, recovery of valuable land by the Filipino elite and allocation of public funding to a limited range of recipients.
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- Arroyo, Ivette LU and Åstrand, Johnny LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2019
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- causal mechanisms, critical realism, Housing recovery, the Philippines, typhoon Haiyan
- in
- Journal of Critical Realism
- volume
- 18
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 142 - 168
- publisher
- Maney Publishing
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85065126557
- ISSN
- 1476-7430
- DOI
- 10.1080/14767430.2019.1605667
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 04fcf3fa-f284-499a-a6e1-f1b1c1cf7742
- date added to LUP
- 2019-05-17 12:18:59
- date last changed
- 2023-11-14 15:48:39
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abstract = {{<p>Typhoon Haiyan damaged around a million houses in the Philippines in November 2013. It especially affected the poor. Using a realist laminated ontology, this paper explains how multiple causal mechanisms triggered unexpected outcomes in the housing recovery programme in the province of Leyte. The proposed causal mechanisms were: the intentional causal agency of the Filipino power elite; the collaboration–competition dilemma among individual agents and social structures; the constraints faced by the National Housing Authority with regards to procurement and budget; unfreedoms for resilient resettlement; secondary side effects of land and resettlement policies; and the under the table practice of bribery. The combination of these multiple causal mechanisms generated emergent outcomes such as low output of permanent post-disaster housing, generic housing solutions that cannot be extended, reproduction of pre-disaster vulnerabilities, recovery of valuable land by the Filipino elite and allocation of public funding to a limited range of recipients.</p>}},
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language = {{eng}},
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series = {{Journal of Critical Realism}},
title = {{Housing recovery outcomes after typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines : a critical realist perspective}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2019.1605667}},
doi = {{10.1080/14767430.2019.1605667}},
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