Learning from megadisasters: lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake

This book consolidates a set of 36 knowledge notes highlighting key lessons learned in seven disaster risk management (DRM) thematic clusters: (i) structural measures; (ii) nonstructural measures; (iii) emergency response; (iv) reconstruction planning; (v) hazard and risk information and decision making; (vi) the economics of disaster risk, risk management, and risk financing; and (vii) recovery and relocation. Aimed at sharing Japanese cutting-edge knowledge with practitioners and decision makers, this book provides valuable guidance to other disaster-prone countries for mainstreaming DRM in their development policies and weathering their own natural disasters.