Build Back Better

Toshihisa Toyoda MA (Kobe University), Ph.D. in economics (Carnegie Mellon University).Professor Emeritus, Kobe University, Japan. He has published numerous papers on economic theory, econometrics, development economics, and policy issues of post-disaster recovery and revitalization in such international journals as Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Empirical Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, Asian Economic Journal, as well as others. He served as editor of Economic Studies Quarterly (the current Japanese Economic Review) between 1981 and 1985, and associate editor of several other journals. His edited books include Economic and Policy Lessons from Japan to Developing Countries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Asian Law in Disasters: Toward a Human-Centered Recovery (Routledge, 2016). He served as president of the Japan Society for International Development between 2005 and 2008 and was a member of the Economic Recovery Committee after the 1995 Hanshin–Awaji Earthquake.   Jianping Wang LL.M. (Jilin University), Ph.D. in economics (Sichuan University). Professor, School of Law, Sichuan University, China. Also, professor of disaster law at the Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction of Sichuan University–Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is the chief expert, Natural Disaster Emergency Management and Disaster Recovery Research Think Tank in Sichuan University and is a council member of civil law in the China Law Society. He has published a study of structural control of risk of listed companies and studies on codification of civil law, the traps and risks in contract law in practice, and legal regulation of securities market risk.   Yuka Kaneko LL.M. (Georgetown University, LL.D. (Kyushu University). Professor and deputy executive director, Center for Social Systems Innovation, Kobe University, Japan. She is also a professor at the Research Center for Urban Safety and Security. Kobe University. She has published numerous papers on Asian law, law and development, law and society, and disaster law. Her edited books include Asian Law in Disasters: Toward a Human-Centered Recovery (Routledge, 2016) and Civil Law Reforms in Post-Colonial Asia: Beyond Western Capitalism (Springer, 2019). She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Japan Society of Asian Law.

Introduction.- Part Ⅰ. Fundamental Issues of Disaster Recovery in Asia.- Chapter 1. Defining and Refining “Build Back Better”.- Chapter 2. A Major Legal Issue in the Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Restoration and Reconstruction: From the Perspective of “Property Donation” in Beichuan Old County.- Chapter 3. Balancing of the State Responsibility for Safety and Disaster Victims’ Right of Reconstruction: A Lesson from the Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery.- Chapter 4. Accountability for Disaster-Related Aid: The Case of the Yolanda/Haiyan Donations.- PartⅡ. Means of Disaster Recovery: Lessons from Japan.- Chapter 5. Livelihood Reconstruction in the Devastated Areas Nine Years After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.- Chapter 6. Lessons from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in terms of “Build Back Better”.- Chapter 7. Toward a Long-term Economic Damage Reduction from an Urban Disaster: Lessons from the 1995 Hanshin Awaji Earthquake.- Chapter 8. Employment Recovery in Post-TsunamiEast Japan.- Chapter 9. Community Recovery: Observation of Gathering Spaces in 2011 GEJET Affected Areas.- Chapter10. Psychosocial Recovery of Foreign Residents in Post-Tsunami East Japan: A Case Study on Filipino Wives in Ofunato, Iwate.- Part Ⅲ. Comparative Approach to BBB in Disaster Recovery.- Chapter 11. On Observing the Recovery of 2015 Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal.- Chapter 12. Build Back Better in the Bangladesh Context.- Chapter 13. Post Disaster Recovery in Myanmar: BBB after the Cyclone Nargis