International Recovery Platform

This article examines the failures of top-down reconstruction after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, revealing how command-and-control approaches inhibited resilience and marginalized local communities from meaningful participation in rebuilding efforts​.

This document presents a timeline of key achievements and activities so far in the housing recovery, as well as including a pre-earthquake section in an attempt to highlight the decades of work on earthquake preparedness and response in Nepal.

This article focuses on one aspect of this -- the efforts that are being made to bring about deeper transformative changes that aim to make the region in and around Fukushima both more sustainable and resilient.