Destructive natural disasters, affect countries around the world. To recover from a disaster, the managers need to make various decisions; however, what makes the post-disaster decision making unique is lack of time to make the optimum decision. A comprehensive understanding of barriers to recovery can lead to development of policies that help prevent delays in recovery process and consequently results in resiliency. Although several studies have been performed to identify the recovery barriers, they did not provide a comprehensive review of barriers and their classification. This paper aimed to identify and categorize barriers to effective post-disaster recovery with a focus on hurricanes. An exhaustive review of 1535 publications from existing literature was performed, and after a thorough search and exclusion process, 452 publications, focusing on hurricane-related issues and authored by scientists, practitioners, etc., were collected and sorted by source of literature, disaster type, year of publication, continent of origin, and data collection method. Sixty-three (63) barriers to effective post-disaster recovery were identified and sorted into five categories: financial and economic, social, infrastructure and housing reconstruction, environment, and coordination and resources. The barriers in each category were ranked, based on how frequently they were referred in the studied literature. The results demonstrated that infrastructure and housing reconstruction category includes highest number of recovery barriers. The top two most-cited barriers in the literature were low rate of employment and low number of active small businesses. The results of this study assist decision-makers identify obstacles to effective recovery, and adopt efficient recovery strategies.

破坏性的自然灾害影响着世界各国。为了从灾难中恢复过来，管理者需要做出各种决定。但是，使灾后决策与众不同的原因是没有足够的时间做出最佳决策。对恢复障碍的全面理解可以导致制定有助于防止恢复过程中的延迟并因此带来弹性的政策。尽管已进行了几项研究来确定恢复障碍，但它们并未全面回顾障碍及其分类。本文旨在确定和分类有效灾后恢复的障碍，重点是飓风。对现有文献中的1535种出版物进行了详尽的审查，经过彻底的搜索和排除过程，共有452种出版物，重点研究飓风相关问题并由科学家，从业人员等撰写，并按文献来源，灾害类型，出版年份，起源地和数据收集方法进行分类。确定了有效的灾后恢复的六十三（63）个障碍，并将其分为五类：金融和经济，社会，基础设施和住房重建，环境以及协调和资源。根据研究文献中提及障碍的频率，对每个类别中的障碍进行排名。结果表明，基础设施和住房重建类别包括最多的恢复障碍。文献中被引用最多的两个障碍是就业率低和活跃的小企业数量少。