This report tallies the successes and failures of the recovery effort after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand, with the aim of improving future preparedness and recovery initiatives. It provides a number of policy recommendations for disaster preparedness and post-disaster response.
This Disaster Recovery Framework will help guide and coordinate decisions on rebuilding over the next three years till 2021 and inform more detailed recovery programs, plans and projects that will be developed and implemented by the government ministries.
The purpose of this handbook is to provide authoritative guidance to people within government and its agencies, non-government organisations and communities on how to plan for the orderly management of an evacuation before, during and after an emergency or disaster.
Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR)
This report was prepared by the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission for the National Diet of Japan. It investigates the circumstances and causes of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in 2011.
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.
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
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.
This booklet describes Sendai City’s present state of recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami and the significant contribution made by citizens, throughout the world.
