Making Schools Resilient at Scale : The Case of Japan

Making Schools Resilient at Scale : The Case of Japan

Japan's Program for Earthquake-Resistant School Buildings has increased the seismic safety of Japanese schools, and hence increased the safety of Japanese schoolchildren, teachers, and communities. Since 2003, when the program accelerated, the...

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Main Author: Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
SCHOOL FACILITIES
SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE
EARTHQUAKES
EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANCE BUILDINGS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/476701508164287969/Making-schools-resilient-at-scale-the-case-of-Japan
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spelling okr-10986-286062021-05-25T09:04:57Z Making Schools Resilient at Scale : The Case of Japan Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery SCHOOL FACILITIES SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE EARTHQUAKES EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANCE BUILDINGS Japan's Program for Earthquake-Resistant School Buildings has increased the seismic safety of Japanese schools, and hence increased the safety of Japanese schoolchildren, teachers, and communities. Since 2003, when the program accelerated, the share of earthquake-resistant public elementary and junior high schools has increased, from under half of schools in 2002 to over 95 percent in April 2015. Japan is sharing knowledge from this program with developing countries through its relationship with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), whose Global Program for Safer Schools has been supported by the Japan–World Bank Program for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management in Developing Countries and its implementing arm, the Disaster Risk Management Hub, Tokyo. 2017-10-30T16:52:55Z 2017-10-30T16:52:55Z 2016 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/476701508164287969/Making-schools-resilient-at-scale-the-case-of-Japan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28606 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Other Infrastructure Study Economic & Sector Work Japan
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topic SCHOOL FACILITIES
SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE
EARTHQUAKES
EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANCE BUILDINGS
spellingShingle SCHOOL FACILITIES
SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE
EARTHQUAKES
EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANCE BUILDINGS
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
Making Schools Resilient at Scale : The Case of Japan
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description Japan's Program for Earthquake-Resistant School Buildings has increased the seismic safety of Japanese schools, and hence increased the safety of Japanese schoolchildren, teachers, and communities. Since 2003, when the program accelerated, the share of earthquake-resistant public elementary and junior high schools has increased, from under half of schools in 2002 to over 95 percent in April 2015. Japan is sharing knowledge from this program with developing countries through its relationship with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), whose Global Program for Safer Schools has been supported by the Japan–World Bank Program for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management in Developing Countries and its implementing arm, the Disaster Risk Management Hub, Tokyo.
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author Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
author_facet Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
author_sort Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
title Making Schools Resilient at Scale : The Case of Japan
title_short Making Schools Resilient at Scale : The Case of Japan
title_full Making Schools Resilient at Scale : The Case of Japan
title_fullStr Making Schools Resilient at Scale : The Case of Japan
title_full_unstemmed Making Schools Resilient at Scale : The Case of Japan
title_sort making schools resilient at scale : the case of japan
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/476701508164287969/Making-schools-resilient-at-scale-the-case-of-Japan
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