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Rebuilding for Resilience: A Barrier Island Case

The Bolivar Peninsula, U.S.A.

  • Chronicles the history of recurring disasters via exemplary ‘lost lessons’

  • Highlights the over exploitation of environmentally responsible areas and consequent incremental gentrification of unincorporated communities

  • Offers a preamble for the analysis of gentrified settlements in the aftermath natural disasters

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction: Disasters in the Divided

    • Chamila Subasinghe
    Pages 1-8
  3. Global to Glocal

    • Chamila Subasinghe
    Pages 9-34
  4. Sustainability-Resiliency Status Quo

    • Chamila Subasinghe
    Pages 35-67
  5. Tensegrity Model

    • Chamila Subasinghe
    Pages 69-88
  6. Connectivity: Gaps and Overlaps

    • Chamila Subasinghe
    Pages 89-106
  7. Rebuilding Rhetoric Aka Significance

    • Chamila Subasinghe
    Pages 107-123
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 125-128

About this book

Recurring extreme events of nature challenge disaster-prone settlements in complex ways. Devastating property damages are one of the tests of survival for such settlements in both economic and social terms. It also provides unique opportunities to rethink the environment cleared by massive natural disasters. However, rebuilding for long-term resiliency is one of the least investigated areas, particularly when employing tacit knowledge in the sustainable recovery process.  


This book builds a discursive field around the post-disaster rebuilding of Bolivar Peninsula aftermath Hurricane Ike to demonstrate reciprocity between disaster absorptive ecological formations such as barrier islands and their exploitative human occupation.   In the process, it investigates the nexus between connectivity among open space networks to various levels of surge damage among Bolivar spontaneous settlements. Beyond scientific analyses, the Hurricane Ike study triangulates syntactical methods with structured observations and statistical analyses to offer a holistic reporting model for emerging scholars and independent investigators, which one may find quite absent in the mainstream disaster studies and journalism.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Curtin University, Perth, Australia

    Chamila Subasinghe

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rebuilding for Resilience: A Barrier Island Case

  • Book Subtitle: The Bolivar Peninsula, U.S.A.

  • Authors: Chamila Subasinghe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65532-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65531-0Published: 01 June 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65534-1Published: 02 June 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65532-7Published: 31 May 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 128

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Natural Hazards, Sustainable Development, Environment, general

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