All Recovery Resources

The White Paper on Disaster Management in Japan 2015 provides an overview of current disaster management measures in Japan.

This paper discusses the opportunity to build government capacity to make use of various new financing instruments, such as reserve funds, contingent lines of credit, and insurance programs, for post-disaster recovery and reconstruction. By preparing

This research study documents the gendered impacts of Hurricane Maria on practices around water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in rural Puerto Rico.

This paper measures the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-time light intensity measured from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected the local recovery process. It focuses on the destructive Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (CES) 2010-2011 in New Zealand as a case study.

This report presents the results of the rapid assessment of the damage caused by Tropical Cyclone Sagar in Djibouti City and the most affected areas, and offers recommendations and a preliminary estimate of recovery and reconstruction needs.

This economic and disaster recovery plan lays out the Government of Puerto Rico’s strategic vision and goals and provides a detailed framework for achieving them.

This study aims to fill a knowledge gap on the extent to which community-level mitigation activities impact business disaster recovery efforts in the US. Using data gathered from 25 semi-structured interviews with businesses and local government staff

The development of sustainable insurance solutions requires thorough risk assessment, modelling and layering. Agricultural and climate risks are mainly of a systemic nature, i.e. they affect a large geographic area or large parts of the population

This paper demonstrates the result of data analytics undertaken on the massive building damage survey data collected by the Government of Nepal after the 2015 Gorkha earthquakes. The data of more than 1 million buildings contained geo-coded information of

This paper presents an in-depth examination of the community experience of home buyouts, a perspective that is noticeably lacking in the literature. Using data from two mixed-method empirical studies, the study explored the implications of buyout program