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Displaying 135 of about 218 resultsThis booklet captures the key efforts undertaken and results achieved over the past three years by UNDP in line with the vision articulated in its Strategy for Earthquake Recovery Assistance: including strengthening the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) while making recovery planning and coordination effective; resurrecting community infrastructur…
In this paper the authors use quantitative and qualitative data to investigate how traditional housing was transformed during the post-earthquake reconstruction of four historic neighborhoods in the Kathmandu Valley. The 2015 Nepal earthquakes devastated the Kathmandu Valley and exposed the challenges of conserving and restoring architectural heritage i…
This contributing paper examines the interplay between official adaptive social protection (ASP) and grassroots efforts based on a case study of the rural reconstruction and recovery that took place after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China. Previous research has broadly demonstrated that these grassroots efforts have, to a certain extent, re…
Six and a half years after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), recovery and reconstruction have been steadily progressing in terms of infrastructure and town development. However, it is a fact that there are still many problems to be tackled in some areas. In addition, communicating the lessons learned from the GEJE is important and should be p…
The ASEAN Disaster Recovery Reference Guide (the Guide) aims to help the ASEAN Member States prepare for recovery; and deliver timely, efficient and effective recovery programmes.
The goal of the Guide is to improve the social and economic outcomes of disaster recovery programmes in the Member States. In particular, it aims to ensure that recovery impr…
• Although Rokkomichi Station South District was designated as the eastern sub-center in the “Kobe City Comprehensive Master Plan” in 1965 and a station square was installed at the south side of JR Rokkomichi Station, the district remained as a low-use district where a mixture of residential, commercial and business-use buildings was found.
• The dist…
• Higashimatsushima City of Miyagi Prefecture, with a population of about 43,000 (before the earthquake), was severely damaged from the Great East Japan Earthquake. About 97% of the total households was damaged mainly due to the tsunami. In particular, concerning seven seriously damaged districts, such as Nobiru District, relocation to hilly areas and s…
• In order to improve the disaster management ability of the district, residents were interviewed in detail on the damages caused by the earthquake and tsunami at the time of Great East Japan Earthquake, as well as on their evacuation behaviors. By reflecting lessons learned from the earthquake, a disaster management plan for the district was developed.…
• Kamaishi City of Iwate Prefecture, with a population of about 40,000 (before the earthquake), is one of regions seriously damaged when the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. About 30% of the total households was damaged mainly due to the tsunami, and a large number of casualties was suffered.
• Reconstruction and town development of the city is p…
An earthquake struck the eastern region of Bhutan on September 21, 2009 at 14h53 local time. It is the most damaging disaster that Bhutan has experienced in recent times. According to the US Geological Survey, the quake registered a magnitude of 6.3 (later revised to 6.1), with the epicenter 180 kilometers east of the capital, Thimphu. According to upda…
The May 27, 2006 earthquake struck Yogyakarta and Central Java. Yogyakarta is a center for Javanese traditional arts and culture, the ancient temples of Borobudur and Prambanan, and is home to a royal family whose lineage goes back to the Mataram era in the 16th century. It is also a center of Indonesian higher education. Striking in the early morning h…
The April/May 2015 Nepal earthquakes and aftershocks had catastrophic impacts on rural households living in biophysical extremes. Recoveries from natural hazards that become disasters have tangible and intangible short- and long-term dynamics, which require linked quantitative and qualitative methods to understand. With these premises in mind, we random…
This report discusses how sharing past disaster experience among the community is an important method of disaster risk reduction. This study distinguishes three groups of residents in disaster-affected areas: the direct experience group, the same generation group that has overlapping ages with the first group but does not have direct experience of the l…
In this paper, the authors assess tangible and intangible disaster recovery dynamics following the 2015 Nepal earthquakes and aftershocks in order to understand household adaptive capacity and transformation. They randomly selected 400 households in four communities across two highly impacted districts for surveys and interviews at 9 months and 1.5 year…
This booklet describes Sendai City’s present state of recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami and the significant contribution made by citizens, throughout the world. It outlines the damage caused by the earthquake and describes progress in recovery and reconstruction efforts by various citizens, including at the community l…