citizen participation. In Japan, the central government makes a decision about the authority in charge of an overall disaster … system in Japan produce the socio-spatial inequality after the Great East Japan Earthquake. However, it remains to be …Citizen participation has attracted attention in the context of decentralization. In a disaster reconstruction process …

and international disaster-related efforts. First, the characteristics of natural disasters in Japan are summarized using …This chapter focuses on the experiences and processes of earthquake recovery to discuss the general state of disaster … natural disasters in the future. More specifically, the chapter illustrates what challenges and influences past earthquakes …

Following the current Japan crisis with the multiple disasters of earthquakes, tsunami and nuclear disasters, it … larger risks, especially natural disasters or man-made disasters (also e.g. volcanic eruptions, terrorist attacks, pandemics … address yet uncovered risks (or risks beyond certain cut-off points) with regard to natural and man-made disasters. This …

In the GLDN seminar, the recovery procedures in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake and the Asian tsunami were …

Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) nightlights are used to model damage caused by earthquakes, floods … and nonaffected cells based on (i) case studies of specific disasters, and (ii) fixed effect regression models akin to the …

climate-induced disasters and the rising magnitude of accompanying damages worldwide underlines the need to focus on disaster … Disaster Management Model, a regional input-output (RIO) model to study the impact of disasters on local businesses and the …Data shows that there has been a five-fold increase in the number of climate-related disasters that the world has …