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This paper proposes a methodology based on a multi-layer Monte Carlo simulation to model a two-stage recovery process for residential buildings: functional downtime due to delay and functional downtime due to repair. The delay portion of the model was

This report details how previous studies have documented the negative impacts and unexpected secondary effects of post-disaster housing development.

The article claims that to those affected, disaster is an existential experience. For them, it is an unexpected existential ‘event’ clearly separating a ‘before’ from an ‘after’. In the academic disaster domain however the ‘disaster as event’ is being

"Double Debt Disaster" examines an increasingly serious and widespread, yet underexamined, phenomenon: obstacles to recovery from catastrophes caused by the concurrence of pre-disaster obligations with post-disaster capital needs and the destruction of collateral assets. No case is more instructive for understanding these problems than the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, which entered history as the costliest disaster prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Co-production of recovery plans with the public is the focus of this week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 33). The briefing identifies three core barriers to co-production (Pace, Distance [physical and social], and Complexity [of the context]) to provide a broad framework to facilitate co-production of recovery and renewal from COVID.

This report explores the current situation of internally displaced people (IDPs) three years after the last drought in 2017, looking at the same locations as the research carried out in 2019. It examines local integration efforts carried out through

This publication aims to prevent the memories of the Great East Japan Earthquake from fading and to pass them on to future generations.　

This is a report on the progress of Miyagi Prefecture's reconstruction efforts.