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JDR Vol.2 No.6 Dec. 2007

Special Issue on Long-term Recovery Process

Editor: Haruo Hayashi

Research Center for Disaster Reduction Systems (DRS), Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University (As of Dec. 1, 2007)

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Editorial:

Special Issue on Long-term Recovery Process

Editor: Haruo Hayashi, pp. 413-418

In this issue of Journal of Disaster Research, we introduce nine papers on societal responses to recent catastrophic disasters with special focus on long-term recovery processes in Japan and the United States. As disaster impacts increase, we also find that recovery times take longer and the processes for recovery become more complicated. On January 17th of 1995, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit the Hanshin and Awaji regions of Japan, resulting in the largest disaster in Japan in 50 years. In this disaster which we call the Kobe earthquake hereafter, over 6,000 people were killed and the damage and losses totaled more than 100 billion US dollars. The long-term recovery from the Kobe earthquake disaster took more than ten years to complete. One of the most important responsibilities of disaster researchers has been to scientifically monitor and record the long-term recovery process following this unprecedented disaster and discern the lessons that can be applied to future disasters. The first seven papers in this issue present some of the key lessons our research team learned from the studying the long-term recovery following the Kobe earthquake disaster.

We have two additional papers that deal with two recent disasters in the United States the terrorist attacks on World Trade Center in New York on September 11 of 2001 and the devastation of New Orleans by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina and subsequent levee failures. These disasters have raised a number of new research questions about long-term recovery that US researchers are studying because of the unprecedented size and nature of these disasters’impacts. Mr. Mammen’s paper reviews the long-term recovery processes observed at and around the World Trade Center site over the last six years. Ms. Johnson’s paper provides a detailed account of the protracted reconstruction planning efforts in the city of New Orleans to illustrate a set of sufficient and necessary conditions for successful recovery.

All nine papers in this issue share a theoretical framework for long-term recovery processes which we developed based first upon the lessons learned from the Kobe earthquake and later expanded through observations made following other recent disasters in the world. The following sections provide a brief description of each paper as an introduction to this special issue.

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Review:

Nishinomiya Built Environment Database and its Findings

Kei Horie, Norio Maki, and Haruo Hayashi, pp. 419-430

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Damage Scale and Long-term Recovery Plans in Japan: Working with Local People

Norio Maki , Haruo Hayashi , and Keiko Tamura, pp. 431-444

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Monitoring Recovery Using Energy Consumption Indices

Masasuke Takashima and Haruo Hayashi, pp. 445-452

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Quantitative Evaluation of Recovery Process in Disaster-Stricken Areas Using Statistical Data

Yuka Karatani and Haruo Hayashi, pp. 453-464

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Recovery and Reconstruction Calendar

Reo Kimura, pp. 465-474

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Defining Recovery: 7-Element Model

Keiko Tamura, pp. 475-483

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Long-term Life Recovery Processes Among Survivors of the 1995 Kobe Earthquake:
1999, 2001, 2003, and 2005 Life Recovery Social Survey Results

Shigeo Tatsuki, pp. 484-501

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Recovery Efforts in New York After 9/11

David Mammen, pp. 502-516

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New Orleans' Recovery Following Hurricane Katrina: Observations on Local Catastrophe Recovery Management

Laurie A. Johnson, pp. 517-529

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Regular Papers

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Design Tsunami Forces for Onshore Structures

Harry Yeh, pp. 531-536

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