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.
厚生労働省 Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan)
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.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the
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
