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Displaying 15 of about 17 results• Ishinomaki City promoted the introduction of an energy system combined with solar power generators, storage batteries, and BEMS to elementary and junior high schools within the city and in Shin-Hebita District where disaster public housings were concentrated. The city aimed to build a town that could secure the power generated by renewable energy in t…
This study aims to confirm whether there was an association between sea visibility and coastal proximity and the mental health of coastal residents a devastating tsunami. No previous study has ever explored the association between coastal exposure and the mental health of residents in a post-disaster context. The authors targeted 15 coastal municip…
This study aims to examine the transition of victims’ residential preferences in Mashiki, Japan, post the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake. The Japanese government supplies post-disaster public housing (PDPH) to victims who are unable to rebuild homes damaged by a disaster. The efficient supply of PDPH requires an accurate prediction of housing demand, based on…
This publication contains 13 testimonies of those who were in Mexico in the front lines responding to the disaster from the health, education, culture, first response, international cooperation and reconstruction sectors. Around midnight on September 7, 2017, an earthquake measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale shook the States of Oaxaca and Chiapas in…
• Based on the lesson learned from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that there is a need of a place to learn the importance of life and ties with people, and also for the purpose of making schools with special features, which has been promoted as a part of the high school reform, Maiko High School (MHS) established a specialized course on disaster mit…
• Located about 7km south of Sannomiya station, which is the center of Kobe City, Takatori Higashi Daiichi Chiku is a district extending to the south-east of JR Takatori Station. Before the earthquake, while the district had a scenery of so-called “lower town” consisted of shops, pre-war row houses, etc., it also had problems, such as the accumulation o…
• Among the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, Fukushima Prefecture which had suffered damage caused by the nuclear accident, is forced a longer evacuation compared to other affected areas. In such a case of long-term evacuation, it will be important to design step-by-step returning processes; such as community development at evacuation…
This article uses sentiment analysis (SA) to assess post-disaster recovery on the 10th anniversary of L’Aquila’s earthquake using Twitter data. We have analyzed 4349 tweets from 4 to 10 April 2019 with the hashtag: #L’Aquila that we have obtained from a third-party vendor. The polarity is first defined using a supervised classification based on experts’…
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…
On August 14, 2021 at 8:29 a.m., an earthquake of 7.2 on the Richter scale struck the Southern Peninsula of Haiti comprising the departments of Sud, Grand ’Anse and Nippes. The national authorities declared the same day a state of emergency and activated the national natural disaster risk management system to coordinate, through the…
• 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…