All Recovery Resources

This document presents the consequences, four weeks after, of the "Great Eastern Japan Earthquake" and tsunami that took place in Japan on March, 11 2011. It is intended to help understand better the damages and losses caused by the earthquake and the tsunami. The document reports on the initiatives of the government and the implications for tsunami preparedness in terms of non-structural measures and structural measures (pre-disaster education, evacuation areas, etc.). It also highlights the profile of the earthquake, casualties, damage to economical bases, evacuation, and other data with photographs.

This document examines the lessons learned from the Indian Ocean tsunami and looks at how the world can be better prepared and take wiser decisions when homes, livelihoods, and communities must be restored or replaced. It documents what went wrong for

This is an outline of the “Japan As One” work project response to the Great East Japan Earthquake undertaken by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

The seminar "After the Disaster: Rebuilding Communities" emphasized the importance of building accountable institutions and strengthening social capital to enhance community resilience in the aftermath of disasters.

The Minnesota Disaster Recovery Assistance Framework is a resource document that provides assistance program information from state, federal, local, and voluntary agency resources following a disaster.

Southasiadisasters.net, issue no. 73, January 2011:

This issue focuses on community-to-community learning as a way for disaster affected communities to share their experiences and to learn effective long-term recovery actions. It contains articles

This book reports on the Reinforce Rescuers' Resilience by Empowering a well-being Dimension (RED) project aiming to enhance well-being and design training programmes for operators and after-care providers intervening in major emergencies. It addresses

This report, published two weeks after the Great East Japan (Tohoku-Kanto) earthquake and tsunami, provides a synthesis of certain existing data and a basic situation analysis of the situation. It considers the major challenge posed to the disaster risk reduction community by: (i) the earthquake; (ii) the tsunami; (ii) the ongoing nuclear emergency; and (iv) the fires, in terms of damage to (v) human life and (vi) infrastructure. It then focuses on the after event period, especially on the search and rescue operation, as well as on shelters. It also considers the economic impact and the work of volunteers.

The paper provides an update on the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March, 2011.

This article, from a Professor of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, assesses the impacts of the recent earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, highlighting the success of the seismic damage mitigation efforts through strong