COORDINATING POST-DISASTER COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT—GROUNDED IN THE EXPERIENCE COORDINATING ONAGAWA'S POST-DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION—

Abstract

 Post-Disaster Community Redevelopment is ongoing in Onagawa, Miyagi, for the reconstruction of the town that lost 8% of its population and 2/3 of its infrastructure in the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11th, 2011. This is a report on the issues surrounding town rebuilding from the perspective of a civil engineer who has been involved in the recovery on-site since the reconstruction plans were formulated in 2011.
 In a post-disaster redevelopment project, the central government, local government and civil organizations, with their respective intentions, get intensively involved in the reconstruction in a short period of time. It became clear that a coordinator was necessary to keep the public and private sectors on the same page during the hustle and bustle of implementing community development.