Build back better, humanitarian planning for long-term risk reduction, early recovery, shelter, reconstruction, psycho-social issues for rehabilitation.
Tropical Cyclone (TC) Gita formed in early February 2018 and developed into a category 4 cyclone, affecting multiple countries in the Pacific region. Tonga was hardest-hit, incurring severe damage.
A massive landslide devastated the community of Barangay Guinsaugon, Municipality of St. Bernard, Southern Leyte Province, Philippines, at about 10:30 local time on 17 February 2006.
The Nevado del Ruiz Volcanic Eruption, also known as the Armero Tragedy, is considered as Colombia’s worst natural hazard-induced disaster which produced the deadliest lahar ever recorded. After 69 years of dormancy, the stratovolcano in Tolima, Colombia erupted in 13 November 1985 melting the mountain’s glaciers and sending lahars down its slopes at 60 kilometers per hour.
This report is a comprehensive verification of the efforts made for the recovery and reconstruction from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake over the last decade from 1995 to 2005 in order to disseminate the results and lessons learned widely within Japan and overseas as recommendations for those who come after us.
This paper explores the contradictions presented by formal interventions into communities in view of their event-centric nature that differs considerably from the community's experience of disaster risk and recovery within the everyday context.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
The University of the Philippines Institute for Small-Scale Industries (UP ISSI) conducted the “E-HANDA Webinar: Helping MSMEs Build Forward Better” on 13 October 2021.
This document introduces the case study about reconstruction from Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in Kobe city, Hyogo prefecture. (Disaster Mitigation Education)
This document introduces the case study about reconstruction from Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in Kobe city, Hyogo prefecture. (Development of Disaster Management Facilities Integrated in Town Development)
