Law, Normative Pluralism, and Post-Disaster Recovery

1.Introduction.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Significance and Objectives of the Book.- 1.3 Typhoon Ketsana and the Philippine PDR Legislation.- 1.4 The PDRRMA and Post-Disaster Recovery.- 1.5 PDRRMA's PDR Standards.- 1.6 Evaluating Typhoon Ketsana Victims' PDR.- 1.7 Theoretical Orientation of the book.- 1.7.1 Areas of "Success" and "Failure" in PDR Projects.- 1.7.2 Normative Pluralism and Philippine PDR System.- 1.7.2.1 Pluralism in State Laws.- 1.7.2.2 Pluralism in Informal Normative Orders.- 1.7.3 Cultural Normative Orders.- 1.7.4 Corrupt Cultural Normative Orders.- 1.8 The Case Study.- 1.9A The Research Site.- 1.9.1 A Brief History of Southville Rodriguez Relocation Site.- 1.9.2 Southville Rodriguez as a Resettlement.- 1.9.3 The Roadmap of the Book.- List of References.- 2.Normative Pluralism in Philippine Resettlement System. 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Legal Pluralism and the Polycentric Implementation of the DDRM.- 2.3 Plurality of Real Estate Rules and Bureaucratic Burdens.- 2.4Laws Governing Relocation and Housing.- 3.1 Post-Disaster Management in the Philippines: An Overview.- 3.2 The Disaster Risk Reduction Management Act and Legal Pluralism.- 3.3 Philippine Laws Affecting Post-Disaster Recovery.- 3.4 Major Social Rules Affecting Post-Disaster Recovery.- 3.5 Summary.- List of References.- 4.Suitability and Accessibility of the Relocation Site.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Determining the Suitability of the Relocation Site.- 4.3 Laws Governing Suitability of Relocation and Housing.- 4.4 The UDHA and the Role of the LGU in Site Selection.- 4.5 Hegemonic Powers of Private Developers in Site Selection.- 4.6 Laws on Accessibility.- 4.7 Evaluating the Site Suitability and Accessibility of Southville Rodriguez.- 4.8 Access in Southville Rodriguez.- 4.9 Summary.- List of References.- 5.Security of Tenure, Affordability, and Habitability.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Security of Tenure.- 5.3 Security of Tenure in Southville Rodriguez Relocation.- 5.4 Habitability.- 5.5 Affordability.-

Dr. Vivencio (Ven) O. Ballano is Associate Professor V of the Sociology Department of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) in Manila. In 2011, he obtained his doctoral degree in Sociology from the Ateneo de Manila University. He was chosen Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the Southeast Asian Studies Research Exchange Program (SEASREP). He is the author of the book Sociological Perspectives on Media Piracy in the Philippines and Vietnam published by Springer Singapore in 2016. Dr. Ballano's specialized areas of teaching and research include sociology of law, religion, disaster management, corporate organization, and the Catholic Social Teaching. His current projects and interests include writing monographs and articles on rumors and gossip in corporate settings and the Catholic Social Teaching, as well as doing sociological research on film piracy and illegal camcording in the Philippines.