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Lessons Learnt from Japan and Latin America and Caribbean Countries in Management of Hazard Resilient Infrastructure

This paper discusses the LAC countries’ sustainable infrastructure that has been shown to be resilient, continuing to operate without collapse even during hazardous events.

Key points

The study reviews :

  1. the good practices for reducing vulnerability in Japan,
  2. the overall progress of LAC countries on disaster risk management, and
  3. the recent infrastructure damages due to disasters in LAC region and identifies lessons.

Finally, using a comparative analysis of a selected case studies in LAC and Japan, the study identifies four approaches for hazard resilient infrastructure in the LAC region.