International Recovery Platform

This is an Action Plan for Disaster recovery published by the state of Rhode Island describing outlines the strategies and initiatives to address the impacts of the hurricane and allocate resources effectively.

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