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Built Environment -Transforming Disaster Experience into a Safer Built Environment : The Case of Japan (English)

Building regulation has a crucial role to play in reducing disaster risk. Building codes can lessen vulnerability by specifying adequate standards for construction or retrofit, and land use plans can lessen exposure by guiding development away from the most hazard-prone areas. Japan's experience in increasing the safety of the built environment through an incremental, context-specific approach to building regulation offers key lessons for developing...
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Built Environment -Transforming Disaster Experience into a Safer Built Environment : The Case of Japan (English). Solutions Brief Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/397721645543040610

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