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Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tōhoku made it through. Smaller earthquakes and tsunamis have killed far more people in nearby China and India. What accounts for the exceptionally high survival rate? And why is it that some towns and cities in the Tōhoku region have built back more quickly than others? Black Wave illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tōhoku region following the 3/11 disasters and why the rebuilding process has also not moved in lockstep across the region. Individuals and communities with stronger networks and better governance, Daniel P. Aldrich shows, had higher survival rates and accelerated recoveries. Less-connected communities with fewer such ties faced harder recovery processes and lower survival rates. Beyond the individual and neighborhood levels of survival and recovery, the rebuilding process has varied greatly, as some towns and cities have sought to work independently on rebuilding plans, ignoring recommendations from the national government and moving quickly to institute their own visions, while others have followed the guidelines offered by Tokyo-based bureaucrats for economic development and rebuilding.

Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Disaster relief --- Disaster victims --- Social capital (Sociology) --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Social networks

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Social capital (Sociology) --- Disaster relief --- Hurricane Katrina, 2005. --- Natural disasters --- Citizen participation. --- Disaster victims --- Disasters. --- Environmental economics. --- Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011. --- Social networks. --- Economic aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Management.

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This book establishes a new, holistic framework for disaster recovery and mitigation, providing a multidisciplinary perspective on the field of risk management strategies and societal and communal resilience. Going beyond narrow approaches that are all too prevalent in the field, this work builds on an optimum combination of community-level networks, private market mechanisms, and state-based assistance strategies. Its chapters describe best practices in the field and elucidate cutting-edge research on recovery, highlighting the interaction between government, industry, and civil society. The book uses new data from a number of recent disasters across southeast and east Asia to understand the interactions among residents, the state, and catastrophe, drawing on events in Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, China, and Thailand. Grounded in theories of risk mitigation and empirical research, the book provides practical guidance for decision makers along with future research directions for scholars. The Asian region is highly prone to natural disasters which devastate large and mostly poor populations. This book deals with some of the root issues underlying the continued vulnerability of these societies to catastrophic shocks. The book is unusual in that it comprehensively covers resilience and fragilities from community levels to market mechanisms and governance and it analyses these issues in very different economic and structural settings. Recommended for development and disaster risk managers—without question. Professor Debarati Guha-Sapir; Director, Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED); Professor, University of Louvain, Research Institute Health and Society.

Economics/Management Science. --- International Economics. --- Development Economics. --- Economic Policy. --- Economics. --- Economic policy. --- International economics. --- Economie politique --- Politique économique --- Disaster relief -- Asia. --- Disaster relief -- Economic aspects -- Asia. --- Disaster relief -- Social aspects -- Asia. --- Commerce --- Business & Economics --- International Commerce --- Natural disasters --- Emergency management --- Disaster relief --- Disaster assistance --- Emergency assistance in disasters --- Emergency relief --- Consequence management (Emergency management) --- Disaster planning --- Disaster preparedness --- Disaster prevention --- Disasters --- Emergencies --- Emergency planning --- Emergency preparedness --- Natural calamities --- Management --- Planning --- Preparedness --- Prevention --- Development economics. --- Human services --- Public safety --- First responders --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- National security --- Social policy --- Economic development --- Economic policy, Foreign --- Economic relations, Foreign --- Economics, International --- Foreign economic policy --- Foreign economic relations --- Interdependence of nations --- International economic policy --- International economics --- New international economic order --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Economic sanctions --- International economic relations.

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