A Brief Note on Disaster Restoration, Reconstruction and Recovery: A Comparative Note Using Post Earthquake Observations

2008 • This statementwas originally prepared in the middle 1990s for inclusion in an electronic digital handbook on disaster research. The producersofthe handbook never produced a final product,so we decided to make the statement public in this way. We have not made any attempt to updatethe references. Our general reading ofthe recent relevant literature does not seem to be inconsistent with the observations made in the statement we wrote about a decade earlier.