2020 Volume 19 Issue 1 Pages 5-12
This paper explains the characteristics of land use management after three mega coastal disasters: Canterbury Earthquake in Christchurch, Hurricane Sandy in New York and the Great East Japan Earthquake in Tohoku region. These three cases have led to spatial transformation after each disaster, thus, examined as mega-disaster. Three ability; sustainability, livability and resilience in the built environment were utilized to infer the expected outcomes and challenges in post-disaster land use management. Municipalities in each country combined and operated land use management tools in order to reduce coastal risks and assist survivors’ housing reconstruction, although several challenges were found such as 1) increased financial burden of insurance premium that may lead to displacement of the people from their communities, 2) equity and transparent process for buyout, 3) maintenance for vast stretches of the hazardous zone.
