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Great natural disasters are rare, but their aftermath can change the fortunes of a city or region forever. This book and its companion Policy Focus Report identify lessons from different parts of the world to help communities and government leaders better organize for recovery after future disasters. The authors consider the processes and outcomes of community recovery and reconstruction following major disasters in six countries: China, New Zealand, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States. If done well, reconstruction can help break the cycle of disaster-related impacts and losses, and improve the resilience of a city or region.

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Johnson (independent consultant) and Olshansky (Univ. of Illinois) analyze how six countries manage recovery from large disasters. The six case studies depict centralized approaches (China, New Zealand), partly decentralized management (Japan), and decentralized approaches with many organizations involved at multiple levels of government (Indian, Indonesia, US). The authors note the trade-offs among time, quality of work, and the level of public participation in recovery decisions. They summarize their own research in the six countries as well as the work of scholars across several academic disciplines. Each chapter is a narrative of the results from recovery efforts from recent major disasters. The final chapter offers conclusions and specific recommendations for improving recovery after major disasters. The scholarship is solid and the writing clear and precise. Pictures, mostly taken by the authors, illustrate the narratives. The book demonstrates that solid scholarship need not be pedantic or boring to all but specialists in a field. Administrators and everyone else involved with the recovery efforts from the 2017 Atlantic hurricanes would be wise to read this book. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. --Robert E. O'Connor, National Science Foundation

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Laurie A. Johnson, Ph.D., AICP, is an internationally recognized urban planner specializing in disaster recovery and catastrophe risk management. She has an extensive portfolio of disaster recovery expertise following earthquakes, landslides, floods, hurricanes, and man-made disasters across the United States and the world. In 2006, she was a lead author of the recovery plan for the City of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; she then co-authored the book Clear as Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans with Robert Olshansky.
Robert B. Olshansky, Ph.D., FAICP, is professor and head of the department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has taught for more than 26 years. He has published extensively on post-disaster recovery planning, policy for earthquake risks, hillside planning and landslide policy, and environmental impact assessment. He co-authored Clear as Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans with Laurie Johnson, as well as the report Opportunity in Chaos: Rebuilding after teh 1994 Northridge and 1995 Kobe Earthquakes with Laurie Johnson and Ken Topping.