Sustainability and Plurality in the Built Environment: A Case study of Reconstruction by Radha Kunke & John D'Souza

This study was done by CED as part of the SETDEV  (Science, Ethics and Technology in Developing and Emerging countries) project which KICS took part in. Our Built Environment is a symbol of the current paradigm of development involving control over knowledge and resources, furthering social inequalities environmental degradation and cultural displacement. Post-disaster, the built environment assumes the form of reconstruction where some of these dimensions are enhanced within a narrow bandwidth of space time and resources. This study traces these dimensions in the reconstruction efforts after the Bhuj earthquakes, the Bihar floods and Tsunami.