Community-based DRR

This academic study explores how rural communities in Western Australia rely on self-reliance to recover from extreme weather, while facing growing limits to long-term resilience under climate change.

This report presents findings from IOM’s September 2025 multi-sectoral community needs assessment, following the 2023 earthquakes, highlighting persistent vulnerabilities in water access, livelihoods, shelter, health, and humanitarian assistance.

A comprehensive recovery guide for Arizona communities post-wildfire, addressing safety, emotional health, funding, and flood risks. Emphasizes local leadership, community mobilization, and long-term ecological restoration for resilience.

This study explored how government place-based planning and citizen-driven placemaking transform place identity of lost places after the 2011 Japan tsunami.

This paper challenges current approaches to undertaking community-centred disaster recovery. The paper focuses on people's experiences of community-centred recovery in New South Wales, Australia, which has experienced severe fires and floods since 2019.

This paper introduces a community-based participatory research program implemented through cooperation between universities and local communities after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. I

This case study aimed to demonstrate how cooking class activities held in collaboration with the Ajinomoto Foundation (TAF) and a consumer cooperative after the Great East Japan Earthquake contributed to the resilience of the affected community.

National guidelines providing principles and processes for assessing community recovery needs after disasters in Australia.

This paper outlines the use of collaborative approaches by a climate change and disaster community of practice across seven local government areas in the Northern Rivers region, New South Wales, Australia.

Japan has a long history of fighting against great earthquakes that cause structural damage/collapses, fires and/or tsunami. The Tohoku region are well trained for tsunami-evacuation procedures, with the mindset of “Tsunami, ten-den-ko.”