Table 1.

Conceptualizations of disaster recovery.

Sl. No.	Conceptualization of disaster recovery	Author, Year
1	Disaster recovery is expected to anticipate long-term losses and also concerned about recreation of pre-disaster trend.	[5]
2	Recovery should not define as a project of bouncing back, such generalization often neglects all other external factors influencing disaster recovery.	[6]
3	Disaster recovery is considered as a dynamic process in which it creates, maintain and change the meaning of the life of the survivors and it reaches to conclusion when the survivors move to redevelop and attain self-reliance.	[7]
4	Recovery process focuses on community as an agent of change. The traditional practices of community considered as social institutions are assigned the responsibility to initiate the project of disaster recovery	[8]
5	Disaster recovery should be people focused and it should engage the people in decision making to empower the community.	[51]
6	Disaster recovery is not merely a reestablishment of physical and built environment, rather it is about a social process which enable the community to involve in decision making process.	[9]