PUBLICATIONS
Adaptability of Low-Income Communities in Postdisaster Relocation
This study qualitatively tracks 6 years of the government-led relocation of Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda–affected communities in Tacloban City (Philippines) and explores how multiple levels of relocation actors responded, interacted, and evolved to adapt to changing environments. Based on the central finding that residents’ life concerns transformed over time, from hazard risk reduction to life re-establishment and finally to adaptation, a planning-centered model of community relocation following disasters is identified.
Questioning the hazard map-based rebuilding process: learning from the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake in Indonesia
This paper draws insights on hazard map-based rebuilding from the coastal recovery of Palu City and its vicinity three and half years after the earthquake. Objectives are three-fold. First, we document rebuilding decisions and processes in three local governments between 2018 and 2022. Second, we explore emerging discrepancies and challenges between the plan for hazard map-based rebuilding and the actual rebuilding process. Third, we identify opportunities and complications of the hazard-map-based rebuilding process.
Learning from a Post-Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda
Recovery Institution (OPARR):
A New Research Agenda for Recovery Governance
As a first step to comprehending the role of post-disaster institutions, this study explores a framework for evaluating their success and unpacking the implications of managing recovery in a compressed timeframe. The case institution for analysis is the Office of the Presidential Assistance on Reconstruction and Recovery (OPARR), established after the 2013 typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda) in the national government of the Philippines.
Governing community relocation after major disasters:
An analysis of three different approaches and its outcomes in Asia
This paper focuses on three recovery cases – earthquake and tsunamis in Tohoku (Japan), storm surge in Leyte (the Philippines), and volcanic eruption in Yogyakarta (Indonesia) – to examine different governmental approaches to community relocation. Specifically, it explores how program design and governance structure impacts implementation and success of community relocation, and how that effects community engagement and the ultimate outcomes of relocation in a long-term.
Revisiting Tohoku’s 5-Year Recovery:
Community Rebuilding Policies, Programs
and Implementation
This chapter longitudinally reviews 5 years of Tohoku recovery after the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) with an emphasis on community rebuilding strategies, programs and their implementation status. We focus on two topics: first, the rationales for recovery planning and the coordinated reconstruction approaches at national, prefectural, and local government levels; second, the use of community rebuilding programs by local governments.
