Beyond Sectoral Recovery: Longitudinal and Integrative Approaches to Long-Term Disaster Recovery

This session invites papers that examine long-term disaster recovery as a multi-dimensional and cross-sectoral social process. Rather than treating housing, urban reconstruction, livelihoods, economic recovery, health, community, and safety as separate domains, the session focuses on how these dimensions interact over time and shape differentiated recovery trajectories. We welcome empirical studies based on longitudinal data, including panel surveys, repeated cross-sectional surveys, administrative data, follow-up interviews, ethnographic research, life histories, and mixed-method designs. We are also interested in theoretical, methodological, and comparative contributions that seek to integrate findings from previous longitudinal studies, develop frameworks for cumulative recovery research, or connect micro-level life rebuilding with community, institutional, and policy processes. Contributions may address uneven recovery, cumulative disadvantage, relocation, social ties, mental health, livelihood change, housing reconstruction, care systems, place attachment, or the changing sense of safety and security after disasters.