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Displaying 7 of about 7 resultsThis report of the commission describes how the state of Texas responded to the disaster, and how Texans began the long road to recovery.
The report is the product of months of effort by the commission and its many partners, based on hundreds of hours of interviews and after-action reports. It provides a detailed account of the storm a…
Catholic Relief Services’ 2015 study, Extending Impact: Factors influencing households to adopt hazard‑resistant construction practices in post‑disaster settings (EI), explored the factors that contribute to people’s independent decisions to use hazard‑resistant reconstruction practices after a disaster, and aimed to increase the scale and impact of she…
This paper demonstrates the result of data analytics undertaken on the massive building damage survey data collected by the Government of Nepal after the 2015 Gorkha earthquakes. The data of more than 1 million buildings contained geo-coded information of building characteristics such as typology, damage to structural elements and overall damage level.…
This report describes Japan’s incremental approach to developing, implementing, and facilitating compliance with building regulation over many decades. It explains Japan’s unique path to developing a policy and legal framework as well as compliance mechanisms that grow out of this framework and that function within Japan’s risk profile and climate, cult…
This document for the QSAND tool describes sustainability performance criteria against which recovery and reconstruction projects can be self-assessed and scored so as to inform decisions made in the aftermath of a disaster. QSAND was developed by BRE Global (the developers of BREEAM), on behalf of the IFRC.
The tool draws on the standards d…
After the earthquake in 2009, L’Aquila (Italy) began a recovery process characterized by a delay in the reconstruction of the city center. Between 2010 and 2014 a recovery index was formulated based on spatial indicators, such as building condition and building use, to measure the progress of the recovery process in L’Aquila. Eight years after the earth…
This case study explores how Japan developed guidelines for local governments to plan and implement assessment and retrofitting projects, and established a national subsidy programme for school assessments and retrofits, in order to strengthen all high school buildings in the country to resist earthquakes.
This case study is part of a series of case st…