International Recovery Platform

The purpose of the North Carolina Disaster Recovery Framework (NCDRF) is to offer direction to the North Carolina Disaster Recovery Task Force in its mission to address the unmet needs of communities affected by a disaster.

The aim of this paper is (1) to explain the transition of the residential status (i.e., type of places or houses in which affected households stay) after the disaster event and (2) to reveal the factors affecting the housing decisions.

This case study explores how Japan developed guidelines to plan and implement assessment and retrofitting projects, and established a national subsidy programme, in order to strengthen all high school buildings to resist earthquakes.