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This document proposes ways to improve planning methods for transport redevelopment in post-conflict reconstruction. It refutes the widespread perception that inland water transport (IWT) is a minor mode of transportation because of its disadvantages

This short article explains the management process of the recovery and reconstruction utilized by the Tohoku Regional Bureau — an inter-organizational process — from a business process management perspective and creates a simple organization construction diagram of the entire process.

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This paper presents the quantification of the "permanent" socio-economic impacts of the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake in 1995 by employing a large-scale panel dataset of 1,719 cities

This report presents good practices in the promotion of economic empowerment of women in the post-disaster situations through entrepreneurship development in Japan and the Asia Pacific region.

This report presents the outcome of a project carried out with the aim to establish an efficient system of infection surveillance to cover all of the clinics in Rikuzen-Takata of Japan in the wake of the the Great East Japan Earthquake – using only the resources that were locally available: The project also aimed to maintain this system until most of the evacuation centres would be closed.

This report provides a description of the accident and its causes, evolution and consequences, based on the evaluation of data and information from a large number of sources available at the time of writing. It consists of a report by the IAEA Director

This report focuses on civil society organizations, in particular those incorporated as Japan’s version of nonprofit organizations which contributed to the recovery and response after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

This document examines the extent to which pre-disaster planning and post-disaster aid can help firms to recover from a natural disaster event.