Resilient Recovery after Disasters: The Long-Term Outcomes of Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction in India, Thailand and Japan

From Ruins to Resilience: Launch of Resilient Recovery After Disasters

You’re invited to the launch of a new book that asks: How can homes—and the communities around them—not just survive disasters, but recover stronger and resilient to future hazards?

Join us as we celebrate the release of the book that explores what it really takes to ensure housing recovery is not only rapid, but also equitable/ rights-based and resilient, for the long haul. Drawing on over a decade of research across India, Thailand and Japan, the authors uncover the hidden factors that shape housing recovery and resilience in the face of climate uncertainty.

Combining grounded research with critical analysis of six case studies of major post-disaster housing projects from India, Thailand and Japan, the book offers:

• Real-world lessons from diverse cultural and economic contexts,
• The systemic and institutional dynamics behind successful recovery
• Practical lessons for policy and planning to leverage post-disaster contexts
• Challenges to dominant “Western” models of development
• How housing recovery can become a vehicle for long-term resilience

Whether you’re a policymaker, practitioner, researcher or student, working in disaster recovery, housing, community development, disaster resilience, or climate adaptation—or simply curious about what it means to create safer housing futures— you’ll find something here to inspire and inform.

Come along to connect, reflect, and be part of the conversation about how we can better support people and places to thrive after disaster.

Book Authors:

Dr Mittul Vahanati, RMIT University, Australia

Dr Liz Maly, Tohoku University, Japan

Dr. Titaya Sararit, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Location: Megaflex Rooms (Building 8, Level 4, Room 13)

Free event but booking are essential as there are limited places.

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