The huge earthquake in 11 March 2012 which followed by a destructive tsunami in Japan was largest recorded earthquake in the history. Japan is pioneer in disaster management, especially earthquakes. How this developed country faced this disaster, which had significant worldwide effects? The humanitarian behavior of the Japanese people amazingly wondered the word's media, meanwhile the managemen...

This paper examines the connections between disability and disaster from a global perspective. Concepts from the research and policy literature are used to distinguish between individual and social models of disability, and between natural hazards and human disasters. These concepts are then employed to investigate data on the response to disabled people's recovery needs in two recent case stud...

This study aims to see how the post-disaster management carried out by BPBD of West Aceh Regency in handling. uses a qualitative method with case approach. The theory used about disaster management, there are 3 stages indicators rehabilitation and reconstruction coverage, namely (1) Pre-Disaster, (2) During Event, (3) Post-Disaster. results indicate that Disaster Management District Post-Disast...

Over five years after the “triple disaster” of an earthquake, a tsunami, and the subsequent nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant that devastated Japan’s Tohoku region on March 11th, 2011, reconstruction is still progressing slowly. The difficulties are unprecedented and vast in scope: over 400 communities in 62 municipalities are affected in six different prefectures, along hun...

Linpan is a typical rural settlement and cultural landscape in the western Sichuan Plain. The protection of has positive significant impacts on people, who live that process post-disaster reconstruction, to re-establish their sense belonging. By studying core elements pattern characteristics traditional Lipan, we established an evaluation model for overall protection. reconstruction disaster al...