International Recovery Platform

This research was motivated by the lack of reconstruction progress in urban settlements one year after the earthquakes and conducted ethnographic fieldwork in five urban settlements over a period of 18 months.

This report outlines a project to track the recovery of residential building stock following the 2014 Napa, California earthquake. Results demonstrated that recovery is significantly influenced by pre-existing socio-economic factors, which should be

This report shows key results and findings from a study about the recovery process in Chennai after the 2015 South Indian floods. Household data was collected ten months after the disaster in Mylapore and Velachery, two constituencies of Chennai.