Post-Tsunami Hazard Reconstruction and Restoration [Hardcover]

This monograph focuses on a variety of topics related to reconstruction and restoration in post-tsunami conditions. Aspects such as coastal engineering, early warning systems and technological approaches, urban planning and settlements relocation, socio-economic redevelopment and policy, coastal ecosystems and agricultural redevelopment as well as pollution assessment are included. The reader will benefit from the various case-studies drawn from a number of countries hit by the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean and the Great East Earthquake and Tsunami of March 2011 in Japan.

This book will appeal to scientists and scholars, decision makers, students and practitioners interested in post-tsunami reconstruction and restoration processes.

Long Term Recovery from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster.- Reconstruction Plans and Planning Process After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.- Rebuilding Livelihoods after a Tsunami: Policies, Programs and Implementation in Rebuilding from the Great East Japan Earthquake.- Reconstruction of Small Fishery Villages in Sanriku Coast after the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami.- Lessons Learned from Two Villages in the Tsunami? Most ?Affected Area of Banda Aceh City: A Review of the Housing Reconstruction and the Current State of Village Development.- Accomplishments of?the South Coastal Thai Communities ?after the 2004 Tsunami in the Restoration?Process: A case Study in?Ranong Province.- Reconstruction Process and Social Issues after the 1746 Earthquake and Tsunami in Peru: Past and Present Challenges after Tsunami Events.- Tsunami Warning System in Thailand: A Part of Reconstruction Process after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.- Effects of the Offshore Barrier Against the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami and Lessons Learned.- Determination of the Boundary Between the Tsunami Level 1 and Level 2 Based on Numerical l3