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Surviving Disaster: Resettlement, Recovery and Ongoing Risk at Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia thumbnail
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This report presents an analysis of the long-term impacts of the 1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcanic eruption on wellbeing and livelihoods. It investigates how social differentiation influences recovery processes and vulnerability to volcanic hazards.

University of East Anglia
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This report series details urban resilience building in post-COVID-19 contexts, specifically focusing on Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
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This study aims to qualitatively illustrate LA program schemes for recovery, and identify the underlying concepts of LA in Italy, the United States and Japan. This study contributes to construction of future agent-based recovery simulations.

Disaster Prevention and Management (Emerald)
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This case series aimed to summarize the secondary problems and mortality risks in patients involved in relocation after disasters after Fukushima nuclear accident.

Frontiers in Disaster and Emergency Medicine
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This report examines multiple urban crises and their responses, using Hiroshima, which suffered tremendous damage from the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, as a case study.

Tokyo Development Learning Center
World Bank, the
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Sustainable development study of the post-disaster housing resettlement case in Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia case study: Nglepen Village and Pagerjurang Village
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This study emphasized the sustainable development of the two case studies and highlighted different private residential housing types: 1) a dome-shaped reinforced structure house and 2) a conventional reinforced concrete structural frame house.

IOP Science
Navigating Resilient Post-Disaster Recovery in Asia and the Pacific
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This document explores the complex process of post-disaster reconstruction, drawing from various expert analyses and real-world case studies to offer actionable insights for policy makers, practitioners, and academics.

Asian Development Bank Institute
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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This report shares lessons from the design and launch phases of a learning pilot that couples parametric risk transfer with an immediate post-flood assitance program for low- and moderate-income households.

Environmental Defense Fund