Proposal from Iwate Prefecture about disaster risk reduction and reconstruction: based on the lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

This booklet is a collection of lessons learned by Iwate Prefecture in light of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, as well as proposals for disaster risk reduction alongside case studies of the reconstruction in Iwate Prefecture, which experienced great losses of lives and property from the earthquake and the massive tsunami and aftershocks that followed.

The proposal comes ahead of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, where the Prefecture hopes to contribute to the improvement of disaster risk reduction at home and abroad by showing the world the advanced case studies of Iwate’s reconstruction and disaster risk reduction efforts, and to ask for continued support from the international community.