Recovery

Background: While resilience has been defined as resistance to illness, adaptation, and thriving, the ability to bounce back or recover from stress is closest to its original meaning. Previous resilience measures assess resources that may promote resilience rather than recovery, resistance, adaptation, or thriving. Purpose: To test a new brief resilience scale. Method: The brief resilience scale (BRS) was created to assess the ability to bounce back or recover from stress. Its psychometric characteristics were examined in four samples, including two student samples and samples with cardiac and chronic pain patients. Results: The BRS was reliable and measured as a unitary construct. It was predictably related to personal characteristics, social relations, coping, and health in all samples. It was negatively related to anxiety, depression, negative affect, and physical symptoms when other resilience measures and optimism, social support, and Type D personality (high negative affect and high social inhibition) were controlled. There were large differences in BRS scores between cardiac patients with and without Type D and women with and without fibromyalgia. Conclusion: The BRS is a reliable means of assessing resilience as the ability to bounce back or recover from stress and may provide unique and important information about people coping with health-related stressors.

This diary study examines the impact of daily recovery experiences on daily work-home interference (WHI) and daily burnout symptoms within a group of smartphone users. A total of 69 employees using smartphones on the initiative of their employer completed a diary questionnaire on five successive workdays (N = 293 data points). We hypothesised that particularly for intensive smartphone users it would be important to engage in activities fostering psychological detachment and relaxation in order to reduce the risk of WHI. We predicted that smartphone use would be positively related to WHI. Finally, we predicted that the positive relationship between WHI and state levels of burnout would be stronger for intensive smartphone users. Overall, the results of multi-level analyses supported these hypotheses. The findings emphasise the importance of a clear organisational policy regarding smartphone use during after-work hours.

This article presents the results of a pilot study on the incidence and development of early childhood stuttering conducted on the Danish island of Bornholm, where the entire population of children born within a 2-year span was surveyed. The findings indicate that the incidence of stuttering reached the level of 5.19%, that 71.40% of the children stopped stuttering within 2 years after the original survey, and that more children stopped stuttering at a later time. Additional information on the characteristics of the children and early stuttering is presented. The results are compared to recent research in the field. Further research activities of this project are in progress.

In this article, we examine consumer reactions to two service recovery strategies: fixing the service failure for a fee and fixing the service failure for no fee and adding compensation. We expect that the more desirable recovery strategy will result in higher levels of satisfaction and higher postpurchase intentions. However, the effect of these recovery strategies on consumers' reactions is likely to be moderated by the setting (online versus offline). The empirical results support our predictions that the effect of the service failure recovery on satisfaction and postpurchase intentions would be stronger in offline media than in online media. Managerial implications thus are presented. D

The concept of 'recovery' (from work) has quickly gained in importance in the occupational health literature. However, we think that the conceptualization of 'recovery' needs some more attention. Although many authors acknowledge that 'recovery' refers to a 'process', the concept is often treated as a static construct. In this paper, we argue that recovery should be conceptualized as a dynamic construct related to changes in psychophysiological state of the person. We refer to two main theories that have provided a theoretical framework for research in this area: Meijman & Mulder's Effort-Recovery (E-R) model and Hobfoll's Conservation of Resources theory.

Ultrafine grained steels with grain sizes below about 1 m offer the prospect of high strength and high toughness with traditional steel compositions. These materials are currently the subject of extensive research efforts worldwide. Ultrafine grained steels can be produced either by advanced thermomechanical processes or by severe plastic deformation strategies. Both approaches are suited to produce submicron grain structures with attractive mechanical properties. This overview describes the various techniques to fabricate ultrafine grained bcc steels, the corresponding microstructures, and the resulting spectrum of mechanical properties.

The capacity to recover from extremes of trauma and stress is termed resilience. Resilience reflects a dynamic confluence of factors that promotes positive adaptation despite exposure to adverse life experiences. Resilience is thought to be important as a component of successful psychosocial adjustment and is associated with mental health. In recent years, increasing attention has been drawn to the potential role that personality and neurobiology might play in determining resilience. This paper presents, from de current knowledge, an overview of the concept of resilience and its implications to the healthcare.

Purpose: To examine the physiological response and reproducibility of the Yo-Yo intermittent recovery test and its application to elite soccer. Methods: Heart rate was measured, and metabolites were determined in blood and muscle biopsies obtained before, during, and after the Yo-Yo test in 17 males. Physiological measurements were also performed during a Yo-Yo retest and an exhaustive incremental treadmill test (ITT). Additionally, 37 male elite soccer players performed two to four seasonal tests, and the results were related to physical performance in matches. Results: The test-retest CV for the Yo-Yo test was 4.9%. Peak heart rate was similar in ITT and Yo-Yo test (189 Ϯ 2 vs 187 Ϯ 2 bpm), whereas peak blood lactate was higher (P Ͻ 0.05) in the Yo-Yo test. During the Yo-Yo test, muscle lactate increased eightfold (P Ͻ 0.05) and muscle creatine phosphate (CP) and glycogen decreased (P Ͻ 0.05) by 51% and 23%, respectively. No significant differences were observed in muscle CP, lactate, pH, or glycogen between 90 and 100% of exhaustion time. During the precompetition period, elite soccer players improved (P Ͻ 0.05) Yo-Yo test performance and maximum oxygen uptake (V O 2max) by 25 Ϯ 6 and 7 Ϯ 1%, respectively. High-intensity running covered by the players during games was correlated to Yo-Yo test performance (r ϭ 0.71, P Ͻ 0.05) but not to V O 2max and ITT performance. Conclusion: The test had a high reproducibility and sensitivity, allowing for detailed analysis of the physical capacity of athletes in intermittent sports. Specifically, the Yo-Yo intermittent recovery test was a valid measure of fitness performance in soccer. During the test, the aerobic loading approached maximal values, and the anaerobic energy system was highly taxed. Additionally, the study suggests that fatigue during intense intermittent short-term exercise was unrelated to muscle CP, lactate, pH, and glycogen.

Afetler, toplulukların tehdit altında olduğu, genellikle yerel imkânlarla müdahalenin yetersiz kaldığı, ulusal kaynakların seferber edilmesi gerektiği, büyük can ve mal kayıplarına yol açan beklenmedik ve istenmedik durumlardır. Çoğunlukla, nerede, ne zaman, hangi büyüklükte, nasıl ve ne türde meydana geleceği genellikle baştan bilinemeyen ve tahmin edilemeyen bu olaylar, pek çok ülkede büyük kayıplara ve özellikle gelişmekte olan ülkelerde ekonomik gelişme sürecinin de yıllarca sürebilen kesintilere uğramasına neden olmaktadır.

Yanlış arazi kullanımı, kentsel ve kırsal planlama ve yapılaşmadaki çarpıklıklar, nüfusun tehlikeli alanlarda giderek daha fazla yoğunlaşması, mevzuat eksikliği ve / veya uygulamanın yetersizliği, toplumsal yoksulluk ve sosyal yapı, hazırlıksız toplum ve hazırlıksız kurumlar, kaynakların uygun olmayan biçimde kullanımı, iklim değişikliğinin etkileri, ormanların yok edilmesi, bio çeşitliliğin ve bu alandaki bilginin kaybı, artan su talebi ve çölleşme gibi özetlenen çevre tahribatının artmasıyla ortaya çıkan riskler ve dolayısıyla yanlış çevre yönetimi gibi faktörler birbirleri ile ilişkili olup, hep birlikte doğal afetlere karşı toplumsal hassasiyetleri - zarar görebilirliği artıran bir eğilim oluşturmaktadır.

Topraklarının hemen hemen tamamı farklı afet riskleri ile karşı karşıya bulunan, büyük çaplı afetlerin meydana gelme sıklığı açısından dünya ülkeleri içerisinde ilk sıralarda yer alan ülkemizde afet öncesi ve afet sonrasında gerçekleştirilmesi gereken faaliyetlerin bir bütün olarak yürütülmesi, koordine edilmesi ve yönetilmesini kapsayan afet yönetimi yaşamsal önem taşımaktadır.

Günümüzde afetler sonucunda ortaya çıkan zararların, insan hayatı, mal - mülk, sosyo - ekonomik yapı ve çevre açısından çok büyük boyutlarda olabildiği ortadadır. Bu noktada ortaya çıkan ‘Afet Yönetimi’ kavramı, her türlü tehlikeye karşı hazırlıklı olma, önleme ve zarar azaltma, müdahale etme ve iyileştirme amacıyla mevcut kaynakları organize eden, analiz, planlama, karar alma ve değerlendirme süreçlerinin tümünü kapsar. Bu nedenle, afet ve/veya risk yönetimi çalışmaları bir bütündür.

Bu kitapta, afet yönetimi ve özellikle de iyileştirme çalışmaları ile ilgili yer yer oldukça detaylı bilgiler verilerek, mevzuatta ve uygulamada halihazırda yapılanlar ve yapılması gerekenler anlatılmaya çalışılmıştır.
Sonuç olarak; hangi ülkede olursa olsun, afet risklerini azaltmada başarı sağlansa dahi, tamamen ortadan kaldırmak mümkün olmamaktadır. Bu nedenle, afet sonrası iyileştirme safhasında yapılacaklara, güncellemelere ve yeni mevzuat düzenlemelerine her zaman ihtiyaç olacaktır. Bu konudaki ufkumuzu geliştirecek ve belki yeni fikirler oluşmasını sağlayacak bu kitap ve benzeri çalışmalar da bu düzenlemelere altlık oluşturacak kaynaklardır.

Given the extent of land use and land cover change by humans on a global scale, conservation efforts have increasingly focused on restoring degraded ecosystems to provide ecosystem services and biodiversity. Many examples in the tropics and elsewhere, however, show that some ecosystems recover rapidly without human intervention which begs the question of in which cases and to what extent humans should actively work to facilitate ecosystem recovery. We recommend that all land managers consider a suite of ecological and human factors before selecting a restoration approach. Land managers should first consider what the likely outcome of a passive restoration (natural regeneration) approach would be based on the natural ecosystem resilience, past land-use history, and the surrounding landscape matrix. They should also identify the specific goals of the project and assess the resources available. Conducting these analyses prior to selecting restoration approaches should result in a more efficient use of restoration resources both within and among projects and should maximize the success of restoration efforts.

Birey ve toplum ruh sağlığı alanında ortaya atılan çeşitli yaklaşımlar ve öne sürülen türlü hizmet modelleri, dünya çapında gerçekleşen birtakım yeniliklere ve değişimlere bağlı olarak ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu yaklaşımlar temelde biyomedikal/tıbbi (Attepe Özden ve İçağasıoğlu Çoban, 2018) ve sosyal/çevresel (Nişancı, 2019) unsurlara verdikleri önem açısından ikiye ayrılmaktadır. Her iki yaklaşımın da esas amaçları birincil, ikincil ve üçüncül koruma pratikleri (Çiçekoğlu ve Duran, 2018) bağlamında sunulan sağlık hizmetlerinin niceliksel ve niteliksel açıdan iyileştirilmesine dönüktür. Bu makalede ise, söz konusu ruh sağlığı hizmeti modelleri, bu modelleri takiben oluşturulup temelde toplum merkezli ruh sağlığı hizmeti modeline dayanan alternatif ruh sağlığı hizmeti modelleri ve ruh sağlığı hizmetlerini şekillendiren iki temel yaklaşım ele alınarak olumlu ve olumsuz yönleri de hesaba katılarak değerlendirilmiştir. Bunların ardından ise, makale boyunca sunulan tüm bu argümanlar temel alınarak mevcut ruh sağlığı hizmeti modelleri ve yaklaşımları doğrultusunda yeni bir ruh sağlığı hizmeti modelinin taslağı sunulmuştur.
Anahtar kelimeler: hastane temelli ruh sağlığı modeli, hastane-toplum denge modeli, ruh sağlığı, toplum temelli ruh sağlığı, toplum ruh sağlığı merkezi

Organic carbon levels of 542 soil samples from temperate lowland forest were determined by the original and modified Walkley-Black (WB) dichromate methods and total organic carbon (TOC) analysis. The performance and the lower and upper quantification limits of the WB method were assessed. Variable recovery rates were related to laboratory and field conditions and to the sample composition. The percentage carbon recovered by the original WB method was found to be systematically lower than commonly accepted, and the correction factor was estimated at 1.58 instead of 1.30-1.35. However, a good linear relationship with TOC enabled acceptable prediction of soil organic carbon which was most precise when using the original WB method. Texture class and pedogenetic horizon showed significant differences in recovery. Depending on the modifications of the WB method, recoveries varied significantly between laboratories, explaining up to 29% of the total variation of the topsoil carbon assessment of a site. Low recovery from samples was partly attributed to charcoal and resistant elementary carbon particles. No interference was found to be caused by iron or manganese compounds. In order to use WB carbon data of forest soils, laboratory-and method-specific determination of the recovery rate using a total analyser is strongly recommended. The original WB method was unable to predict reliably forest soil carbon contents higher than 8% TOC.

This article explores the ways that individuals experience recovery from gambling problems. Arguing against reductive, bio-medical models of addiction, we adopt a broadly interpretive epistemology to analyse gamblers' narratives of recovery. Using data from a longitudinal qualitative study of 'gambling careers' we suggest that processes of behaviour change are embedded in wider social relations and revolve around shifting concepts of self-identity. This involves processes of biographical and temporal reconstruction which are grounded in material circumstances, particularly those relating to money and social relationships. Various configurations of recovery exist, but common to all is a dynamic temporal reorientation and an increased sense of agency and authenticity as individuals move into a future that they feel they have some control over. These narratives suggest that experiences of gambling addiction and recovery, and the selfconcepts that accompany them, are fluid and contextual and that 'managing' gambling is about re-shaping the self in culturally appropriate ways. It is hoped that aspects of this analysis may be of relevance for understanding the narrative dimensions of addiction and recovery more generally.

Participate in an international competition for a project in China, design a project for Dubai, build a school in the favellas of Brazil. Those are some of the challenges that firms in the fields of architecture, urban planning and construction must now face in a globalizing construction sector. However, the international context of construction shows different faces, ranging from prestige buildings designed by foreign “star” architects in
world-class cities, to emergency shelters produced by humanitarian international initiatives in rural areas in developing countries. For many, this context offers great commercial opportunities, but also risks and threats.

Participants from different countries working in foreign contexts are confronted with major challenges that range from cultural adaptation to contractual know-how. A careful understanding of organizational design and procurement is crucial in this context. The procurement strategies - that is, the initial decisions made by the client(s) to create the temporary multi-organization in charge of the project – can determine the success or failure of the initiatives.

This 2008 conference-workshop discusses these challenges and seeks to clarify the scope of and opportunities for construction projects in the international context. It focuses on the procurement-related aspects of international construction projects, and it opens the door to a wide range of subjects related to the performance of these initiatives.

The conference-workshop addresses the following issues:
• How to procure a building project abroad?
• How do architects participate in international construction?
• What are the main risks of international procurement? What are the main risks of working
abroad?
• Is there such a thing as a real international supply chain?
• What are the differences between local procurement and international procurement?
• What are the main opportunities for construction companies interested in working abroad?
• How must the relations between foreign organizations and local actors be established?

El ácido succínico producido por diversos microorganismos se puede utilizar como un precursor de muchos productos químicos industrialmente importantes en las industrias alimentarias, químicas y farmacéuticas. La evaluación de costo de materia prima y la estimación del tamaño potencial de mercado indican claramente que el proceso de ácido succínico a base de petróleo actual se sustituye por el sistema de producción de ácido succínico fermentativo en el futuro previsible. Este artículo revisa los procesos para la producción de ácido succínico fermentativo, con especial énfasis en el uso de varios productores de ácido succínico prometedoras incluyendo succinogenes actinomycetemcomitans, succiniciproducens Anaerobiospirillum, succiniciproducens Mannheimia y Escherichia coli recombinante. Los procesos para la recuperación de ácido succínico de caldo de fermentación también se revisan brevemente. Por último, le sugerimos otras obras necesarias para mejorar el rendimiento cepa adecuada para la adecuada comercialización de la producción de ácido succínico fermentativo.

A recommended practice for the design and operation of electric systems in health care facilities is provided. The term Òhealth care facility,Ó as used here, encompasses buildings or parts of buildings that contain hospitals, nursing homes, residential custodial care facilities, clinics, ambulatory health care centers, and medical and dental ofÞces. Buildings or parts of buildings within an industrial or commercial complex, used as medical facilities, logically fall within the scope of this book.

Having recently moved to Southeast Asia, I feel at liberty to share some of my story with your readers. I started exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia at age twenty, e.g. disorganized speech, psychotic aspect, catatonia, etc. I was hospitalized several months after, and started a fifteen year journey of learning about the disease schizophrenia and finding a cure for myself (Helman, 2018). I am told that I may not have had the disease, since my last hospitalization or medication for it was in 2006, and I am not subject anymore to symptoms. Despite having been hospitalized on ten occasions for the illness, if one has recovered, then misdiagnosis is suggested.

A state of mindfulness is characterized by focused, nonjudgmental awareness of the present moment. The current research experimentally investigated how state mindfulness influences task motivation and performance, using multiple meditation inductions, comparison conditions, tasks, and participant samples. Mindfulness inductions, relative to comparison conditions, reduced motivation to tackle mundane tasks (Experiments 1-4) and pleasant tasks (Experiment 2). Decreased future focus and decreased arousal serially mediated the demotivating effect of mindfulness (Experiments 3 and 4). In contrast to changes in motivation, inducing a state of mindfulness did not affect task performance, as seen in all experiments but one (Experiments 2-5). Meta-analyses of motivation and performance experiments, including unreported findings (i.e., the file drawer), supported these conclusions. Experiment 5’s serial mediation showed that mindfulness enabled people to detach from stressors, which improved task focus. When combined with mindfulness’s demotivating effects, these results help explain why mindfulness does not alter performance.

The treatment of Schizophrenia has taken many forms over the past century.  Since schizophrenia’s recognition as a distinct mental disorder, the focus of treatment has been the mitigation of symptomology.  Both the prevalence and effectiveness of psycho-pharmaceutical treatment has highlighted the importance of symptom reduction and has established the dominant view of recovery based on this principle.  Over the past few decades a mental health recovery model has emerged, through deinstitutionalization, mental health advocacy, and the general push for social empowerment of the disenfranchised, which focuses on the person apart from the disease.  This alternative paradigm operates from a whole-person perspective of health and illness, and gives significant weight to the individual’s subjective definition of wellness, fulfillment, and personal meaning-making.  Research focusing on the qualitative recovery experience of those with severe mental illness provides new insights into the subjective components of the recovery process, and identifies the importance of narrative in mending the individual’s sense-of-self.  This model of recovery in mental health, and the proposed stabilization of a person’s sense-of-self as a crucial element in this process, opens the door to nuancing treatment for specific populations and individuals.  This dissertation suggests a model of treatment for individuals with schizophrenia whose religious beliefs are the organizing center of their lives.  Religiously competent therapists who have the skills to access this narrative material can use it to help the individual stabilize his/her sense-of-self.  This study provides basic ideas for conceptualizing recovery and shows how narrative treatment in schizophrenia interacts with the meta-narrative of religious belief in general, and the Reformed Protestant religion in particular.

Playback theatre is a community-building improvisational theatre in which a personal story told by a group member is transformed into a theatre piece on the spot by other group members. Playback theatre combines artistic expression and social connection based on story-telling and empathic listening, thus bringing together modes thought to promote healing. Here, we explore the potential of playback theatre to promote recovery in the field of mental health. We conducted two playback courses for a total of 19 adults in a university-based program for recovery, and collected qualitative reports pre–post self-report measures for self-esteem, personal growth and recovery. We also developed a self-report measure named the playback impact scale that includes items related to creativity, confidence in performing, social connectedness and seeing one's life as full of stories. We find significant enhancement in the playback impact scale following a 10 week playback course. The qualitative reports indicate recurring themes of enhanced self-esteem, self-knowledge, as well as fun and relaxation, and enhanced sense of connection and empathy for others. These preliminary results suggest that playback theatre can serve as an effective practice for enhancing recovery processes from serious mental illness.► Playback theatre workshops for people with severe mental illness were studied. ► In playback, personal stories are enacted on the spot with empathy by peers. ► Qualitative reports and a quantitative playback impact scale were used. ► Workshops enhanced self-esteem, self-knowledge, relaxation, connection with others, and empathy. ► We suggest that playback can be effective for enhancing recovery from serious mental illness.

Purpose: To investigate the effects of training intensity and duration, through a range representative of training in endurance athletes, on acute recovery of autonomic nervous system (ANS) balance after exercise. Methods: Nine highly trained (HT) male runners (V O 2max 72 T 5 mLIkgImin j1 , 14 T 3 training hours per week) and eight trained (T) male subjects (V O 2max 60 T 5 mLIkgImin j1 , 7 T 1 training hours per week) completed preliminary testing to determine ventilatory thresholds (VT 1 , VT 2 ) and V O 2max . HT performed four intensity-controlled training sessions: 60 min and 120 min below VT 1 ; 60 min with 30 min between VT 1 and VT 2 (threshold); and 60 min above VT 2 (6 Â 3 min at 96% V O 2max , 2 min of recovery). T also completed the interval session to compare ANS recovery between HT and T. Supine heart rate variability (HRV) was quantified at regular intervals through 4 h of recovery. Results: When HT ran 60 or 120 min below VT 1 , HRV returned to pretraining values within 5-10 min. However, training at threshold (2.7 T 0.4 mM) or above VT 2 (7.1 T 0.7 mM) induced a significant, but essentially identical, delay of HRV recovery (return to baseline by approximately 30 min). In T, HRV recovery was significantly slower, with HRV returning to baseline by Q90 min after the same interval session. Conclusions: In the highly trained endurance athlete, exercise for e120 min below the first ventilatory threshold causes minimal disturbance in ANS balance. ANS recovery is more rapid in highly trained than in trained subjects after high-intensity exercise. Further, the first ventilatory threshold may demarcate a ''binary'' threshold for ANS/HRV recovery in highly trained athletes, because further delays in HRV recovery with even higher training intensities were not observed.

In international service settings, customers' evaluations of service encounters are influenced by their evaluations of the service failure and recovery contexts, which are shaped by their cultural orientation. Knowledge of how critical service factors are perceived by customers from different cultural background is important in the design and implementation of global service strategy. Service recovery, in the form of compensation or apology, is tested in three cross-national samples. Compensation is found to improve customers' assessment of the service encounter in all three countries, but positive effects on repurchase intention and word of mouth (WOM) are only found for the American sample and not for the Singaporean and Australian samples. Apology is found to improve satisfaction in Singapore and Australia but not in the United States. Culture's influence on the evaluation process is examined to account for the differential impact of apology and compensation on customer perception about service failure and recovery.

To grasp the connectedness of our thoughts, feelings and senses as they are implicated in embodied movement we need more nuanced ways of thinking sport and physical culture as phenomena that materialize through complex biopsychosocial relations (as distinct from biopsy models of illness and treatment). In this chapter I take up the question of how embodied movement matters in mental health with respect to the materiality of all knowledge practices (science and social science, qualitative and quantitative research). I argue through a diffractive analysis that embodied movement practices can be thought of as phenomena that are co-implicated in the performance of recovery from depression. I draw together several trajectories of thought that emerge from Karen Barad’s (2007, 2003) diffractive analysis as well as Deleuze and Guattari and feminist readings concerned with affective relations and assemblages (Fox & Alldred, 2016; Deleuze and Guattari, 1987; Coleman and Ringrose, 2013). Through post-qualitative inquiry I explore how embodied movement is co-implicated in the affective, entangled relations that shape women’s recovery from depression in an Australian study.

This symposium was organised jointly by Mental Health in Higher Education, the Centre for Disability Research at Lancaster University and the School of Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire. The symposium was by invitation only and brought together scholars (including
academics, activists and research students) from the north-west of England to explore the issues that arise from trying to situate mental distress or ’madness’ within the social model of disability. We specifically focussed on psychosis, hearing voices and other extra-ordinary experiences, as these raise particular issues and challenges.

This chapter introduces the tourism–disaster–conflict nexus through a comprehensive review of the contemporary social science literature. After reviewing conceptual definitions of tourism, disaster and conflict, the chap- ter explores various axes that link through this nexus. The linkages between tourism and disaster include tourism as a trigger or amplifier of disasters, the impacts of disasters on the tourism industry, tourism as a driver of dis- aster recovery and disaster risk reduction strategies in the tourism sector. Linkages between tourism and conflict include the idea that tourism can be a force for peace and stability, the niche status of danger zone or dark her- itage tourism, the concept of phoenix tourism in post-conflict destination rebranding, tourism and cultural conflicts, and tourism’s conflicts over land and resources. Linkages between disaster and conflict include disasters as triggers or intensifiers of civil conflict, disaster diplomacy and conflict reso- lution, disaster capitalism, and gender-based violence and intra-household conflict in the wake of disasters. These are some of the conversations that organise this volume, and this introductory chapter ends with a summary of the chapters that follow.