Adaptive Social Protection and Disaster Risk Management : A Case Study of Japan
Japan has long suffered from intermittent but devastating natural disasters. Over the years, the country has developed a comprehensive disaster risk management (DRM) system to ensure that disaster response and recovery are as effective and efficien...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/479311601537929130/Adaptive-Social-Protection-and-Disaster-Risk-Management-A-Case-Study-of-Japan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34577 |
| Summary: | Japan has long suffered from
intermittent but devastating natural disasters. Over the
years, the country has developed a comprehensive disaster
risk management (DRM) system to ensure that disaster
response and recovery are as effective and efficient as
possible. Japan has also created an elaborate system to
provide social and economic assistance to disaster victims,
including the most vulnerable. Today, Japan isa model of how
the DRM and Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) systems can
function in the context of rapid onset disasters, which,
though infrequent, often have severe consequences. Japan is
ranked fourth among the 171 countries most exposed to
natural disasters (Bundnis Entwicklung Hilft 2017). Until
the 1950s, such disasters frequently led to thousands of
deaths. Since then, however, the number of deaths from these
events has decreased markedly due to the improvement of the
country’s DRM system. Nevertheless, mega-scale disasters,
especially the ‘Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster’ in
1995 and the ‘Great East Japan Earthquake’ and tsunami in
2011, have still resulted in significant damage and loss of
life. Given the high probability that a large-scale disaster
could occur soon, Japan has continuously made efforts to
further develop disaster risk mitigation and preparedness
measures, often in response to a specific disaster for which
aspects of the existing systems were found wanting. |
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