Analysis of the Process of Providing Public Support Programs for Damaged Dwelling Restoration: A Case Study of Recent Earthquake Disasters

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There are many public support programs offered for damaged dwellings restoration to assist smooth recovery after the natural disaster in Japan. For example, building damage evaluation, issuing victim certificate , demolition and withdrawal of a damaged housing, providing temporary housing, temporary repair of a housing and etc.Most of these work needs to be carried out in a short period, almost of work differs from day-to-day-business, and the contents of support are differ under the influence of household’s requirements such as housing damage level, income, and family structure. In the same way, these programs do not have the familiarity for a disaster victim. Furthermore in Japan, each program is based on a different law and provided by various section, so it is difficult for each section to share information for providing victims with a measure. For these reasons, there have been a lot of confusion between victims and local government on recovery process, and various problems were pointed out in the past disaster correspondence. In this paper, we discuss the processes of public support programs for repair and reconstruction of damaged housing from the recent earthquake disasters in Japan, 2004 Mid-Niigata earthquake disaster and 2007 Noto peninsula earthquake disaster. Based on the participant observation and the ethnographical interview to the local government staffs engaged in operation of Ojiya City, Wajima City and victims, we have analyzed the execution process of each support program, the correlation and influence of mutual program. Analyzing the process and the subject.

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