Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 33 Issue 5

Guest editorial: Tensions between tradition and innovation in disaster risk reduction, climate action and reconstruction

Elizabeth Maly, Tamiyo Kondo, Julia Gerster

Artefacts of disaster risk reduction: conceptualizing bottom-up initiatives of climate action in informal settlements

Gonzalo Lizarralde, Benjamín Herazo, David Smith, Lisa Bornstein, Kevin Gould, Elsa Monsalve, Nicolás Ordoñez, Adriana López, Oswaldo López, Roberto Burdiles, Claudio Araneda, Andrés Olivera

Disaster risk reduction is of prime importance in informal settlements in the Global South, where several forms of vulnerability coexist. Policy and official programmes, however…

Advanced documentation technologies for people-centred preparedness and re-construction in Bela, India

Bernadette M. Devilat, Felipe Lanuza, Mrudula Mane, Zeus Pithawalla

Despite the recurrence of earthquakes, responses are usually triggered afterwards, lacking mitigation strategies to diminish risks. Damaged dwellings cannot be immediately…

Assessing the reconstruction process following a wildland urban interface (WUI) fire in Viña del Mar, Chile

Jorge León, María Ignacia Rojas, Soraya Gutiérrez, Randy Román

To critically assess the reconstruction process's outcomes four months after a wildfire disaster in Viña del Mar, Chile, comparing the governmental reconstruction plan and the…

Support for housing recovery of home-based survivors: disaster case management after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami

Akihiro Uto, Elizabeth Maly

After the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), the need for disaster case management (DCM) was highlighted through the efforts of the Sendai Bar Association, which investigated the…

Challenges in construction material supply for post-disaster transport infrastructure recovery: a case study of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake in New Zealand

Kenan Liu, Alice Chang-Richards, Seosamh B. Costello, Cecile L'Hermitte, Nadia M. Trent, Nan Li

This paper aims to investigate the challenges faced by the transport infrastructure sector in its civil construction material supply processes, following the 2016 Kaikoura…

The politics of land management after disasters: the case of post-earthquake reconstruction in Türkiye

Fatma Özdoğan, Gonzalo Lizarralde, Benjamin Herazo

In this paper, we explore the impact of land management practices on post-disaster housing, to draw lessons from the case of reconstruction in Türkiye.

Comparative study for underlying concepts of land acquisition during post-disaster recovery in Italy, the United States and Japan

Kensuke Otsuyama, Tomoyuki Mashiko, Haruka Tsukuda

Studies on land acquisition (LA) and recovery simulations have garnered considerable attention amidst climate change. Previous literature has reported that LA and relocation…

A study on co-creation-type reconstruction community planning in village affected by the Great East Japan earthquake

Takayuki Tomobuchi, Osamu Tsukihashi, Kazuki Isomura

The purpose of this study is to present the possibilities of co-creation-type reconstruction methods by focusing on examples of reconstruction in communities affected by the 2011…

Attitudes towards the release of ALPS water from Fukushima NPP

Tetsuya Nakamura, Steven Lloyd, Atsushi Maruyama, Satoru Masuda

The Japanese government plans to release ALPS treated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant starting in the summer of 2023. This has appeared to be a controversial topic in…

Raised under bad stars: negotiating a culture of disaster preparedness

Daniel Starosta

The ways communities have regarded disasters and natural hazards in the cultural sphere can provide a lens to inform the understanding of their ability to withstand shocks and the…

Design process of ruins of the Great East Japan Earthquake: Nakahama Elementary School

Masashige Motoe

This study clarifies the design process for preserving and opening Nakahama Elementary School, damaged in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, to the public in 2020 as a museum…

Tohoku resilient schools and youth engagement in memory after 2011 tsunami

Carmen Grau Vila

In 2011, a disaster devastated the Tohoku region in Japan and left more than 15,000 victims. However, there could have been more. School buildings became a center of response and…