Given the paucity of quantitative empirical research on survivors' resilience and its predictors in the context of long-term recovery after disasters, we examined how resilience predictors differed by gender among adult survivors five years after the Sichuan earthquake. This was a cross-sectional survey study of adult survivors (N = 495; aged 18-60) living in reconstructed communities five year...

Tourism is one of the most economically important industries. It is, however, vulnerable to disaster events. Geotagged social media data, as one of the forms of volunteered geographic information (VGI), has been widely explored to support the prevention, preparation, and response phases of disaster management, while little effort has been put on the recovery phase. This study develops a scienti...

We explain how network failures were caused by a natural disaster, describe the restoration steps that were taken, and present lessons learned from the recovery. At 21:26 on December 26th (UTC+9), 2006, there was a serious undersea earthquake off the coast of Taiwan, which measured 7.1 on the Richter scale. This earthquake caused significant damage to submarine cable systems. The resulting fibe...

The World Bank has reported Taiwan as the most vulnerable country in terms of the percentage of exposed areas and multiplicity disaster. During the past decade, a number of natural disasters have occurred in Taiwan, especially two critical ones, i.e. Chi-Chi earthquake and Typhoon Morakot. In the first event, the earthquake was with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale and caused seriously d...

Recovery funding from disasters is a complex system of cooperation between formal and informal stakeholders. Network analysis can shed light into the underlying mechanisms that occur during the post-disaster recovery phase. In this study, we apply a data-driven approach on online news articles and other publicly available information about the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to construct networks o...

Of the free legal counselling conducted by lawyers following the Great East Japan Earthquake, the results of analysis of approx. 40,000 cases have been disclosed by the Japan Federation of Bar Associations. These analysis results have been used as evidence serving as the basis for system revision and new legislation following the disaster, and have been of value to public policy, to a certain e...

AIM The aim of this study is to assess the depression of pregnant women in the aftermath of an earthquake, and to identify the social support that they obtained, their coping styles and socio-demographic factors associated with depression. METHODS A total of 128 pregnant women from three hospitals in the epicenter area were recruited immediately after the Ya'an earthquake. Their depression wa...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of the 2011 great east Japan earthquake on body mass index (BMI) of preschool children. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study and ecological study. SETTING Affected prefectures (Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate) and unaffected prefectures in northeast Japan. PARTICIPANTS The cohort study assessed 2033 and 1707 boys and 1909 and 1658 girls in 3 affected prefectures ...

Although earthquake disasters are often termed as a 'natural' disaster, a critical analysis reveals that most of them are in fact man-made, and caused by the human activities that are related to poor construction practices in both developed and developing countries. Damage scenarios of recent earthquakes show ample examples in support of this statement. While risk perception is an important iss...