The 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami reconstruction and restoration : insights and assessment after 5 years /

This book covers the restoration and reconstruction process and activities undertaken in Japan in the first five years since the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami - a period widely considered to be the most intensive reconstruction phase within the 10-year restoration plan drawn up by the Japanese Governm...

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Other Authors: Santiago-Fandiño, V., Satō, Shinji, 1958-, Maki, Norio, 1968-, Iuchi, Kanako,, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 485 pages) : 196 illustrations, 139 illustrations in color.
Series: Advances in natural and technological hazards research ; 47.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Planning, Policy and Governance
  • Chapter 1: Complexities and Difficulties Behind the Implementation (Onoda Yasuaki)
  • Chapter 2: The Problems of Plan-Making (Fukuo Akimoto)
  • Chapter 3: Building Back a Better Tohoku from the March 2011 Tsunami (Shingo Nagamatsu)
  • Chapter 4: Creating Resilience using Spatial Planning (Nadine Mägdefrau)
  • Chapter 5: Lessons Learned in Disaster Debris Management (Terri R Norton)
  • Part II: Societal and Community Recovery
  • Chapter 6: (Revisiting Tohoku's Five-Year Recovery)
  • Chapter 7: Enhancing Community Resilience through Capacity Development After GEJE (Aiko Sakurai)
  • Chapter 8 Community Design in Recovery (Hideiki Koizumi)
  • Chapter 9: Healthy Community Resilience (Shinichi Egawa)
  • Part III: Urban Planning, Housing and Development
  • Chapter 10: Planning Challenges for Housing and Built-Environment (Tamiyo Kondo)
  • Chapter 11
  • Housing and Reconstruction Over Five Years after the 2011 (Yoshimitsu Shiozaki)
  • Chapter 12: Changes in Land Use after the Great East Japan Earthquake (Michio Ubaura)
  • Chapter 13: Housing Recovery and Displacement from Fukushima (Elizabeth Mali)
  • Part IV: The Environment; Research, Damage and Recovery
  • Chapter 14: Restoration Measures after the 2011 Tohoku-oki Tsunami
  • Chapter 15: Impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake on the Seaweed (Tamaki Hitoshi)
  • Chapter 16: Changes in the Coastal Ecotone along the Sanriku (Teruhisa Komatsu)
  • Chapter 17: Reconstruction and Restoration after the Great East Japan Earthquake
  • Chapter 18: The Coastal Environment and the Reconstruction Process after GEJE
  • Part V: Farming and Restoration
  • Chapter 19
  • Impact of the 2011 Tohoku-oki Earthquake Tsunami (Hitoshi Kanno)
  • Chapter 20
  • The Regional Structure and Farming Resumption in a Tsunami-affected Community (Toshihiro Hattori)
  • Chapter 21: Tohoku University Rapeseed Project for Restoring Tsunami-Salt-Damaged Farmland (Nakai Y)
  • Part VI: Coastal Engineering, Structures and Hazards
  • Chapter 22: The Yamamoto Coast over Five Years (Vo Cong Hoang)
  • Chapter 23: Challenges in Reconstruction and Strategies for Prevention (Yoshimitsu Tajima)
  • Chapter 24: Formation of Breaking Bores in Fukushima Prefecture due to the 2011 Tohoku (Sato Shinji)
  • Chapter 25: The Role of Tsunami Engineering in Building Resilient Communities (Fumihiko Imamura)
  • Part VII. Coastal Modelling and Hazards Prediction
  • Chapter 26: Evolution of Numerical Modeling as a Tool for Predicting Tsunami-induced (Daisuke Sugawara)
  • Chapter 27: Recent Process in Probabilistic Tsunami-Hazard Analysis (PTHA) for Mega-Thrust Subduction Earthquakes (Nobuhito Mori).