International ®nancial institutions like the World Bank are caught in the grip of two ®nancial forces: the increasing demand from developing countries for borrowing to cope with the costs of natural hazard losses, and stagnant budgets that have not increased with the demand on their resources. The squeeze creates interest on the part of these institutions in the possible use of catastrophe hedg...

Global disasters due to earthquakes have become more frequent and intense. Consequently, post-disaster recovery reconstruction has the new normal in social process. Through reconstruction, risks can be effectively reduced, resilience improved, long-term stability achieved. However, there is a gap between impact of post-earthquake needs people disaster area. Based on international consensus “bui...

The concept of Expeditionary Economics (ExpECON) was introduced in 2010 in a path-breaking article in the May/June 2010 issue of Foreign Affairs, “Expeditionary Economics: Spurring Growth After Conflicts and Disasters”, by then Kauffman Institute President and CEO Carl Schramm. In that article, Schramm put forth the proposition that economic growth is vital for stabilizing post-conflict/disaste...

In this paper, we propose the Real-time Disaster Damage Information Sharing System for the disaster countermeasures headquarters at the time of large-scale natural disaster. This Real-time Disaster Damage Information Sharing System consists of the Post Damage Picture Smartphone Application, the Post Damage Picture Facebook Application, and the Web-GIS Disaster Information Management Site. The P...

in recent years, natural disasters and the accompanying health risks have become more frequent, and rehabilitation work has become an important part of government performance. on one hand, social networks play an important role in participants' therapeutic community participation and physical & mental recovery. on the other hand, therapeutic communities with widespread participation can also co...

BACKGROUND Amid continuing social unrest from the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident of 2011, the Japanese government announced plans for a major biobanking project in the disaster-stricken areas, to be administered by the 'Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization' (ToMMo). This project differs from previous biobanking projects in that it 1) was initiated mainly t...