Introduction
Part I. Fundamental Issues of Disaster Recovery in Asia
Chapter 1. Defining and Refining "Build Back Better"
Chapter 2. A Major Legal Issue in the Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Restoration and Reconstruction: From the Perspective of "Property Donation" in Beichuan Old County
Chapter 3. Balancing of the State Responsibility for Safety and Disaster Victims' Right of Reconstruction: A Lesson from the Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery
Chapter 4. Accountability for Disaster-Related Aid: The Case of the Yolanda/Haiyan Donations
PartII. Means of Disaster Recovery: Lessons from Japan
Chapter 5. Livelihood Reconstruction in the Devastated Areas Nine Years After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Chapter 6. Lessons from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in terms of "Build Back Better"
Chapter 7. Toward a Long-term Economic Damage Reduction from an Urban Disaster: Lessons from the 1995 Hanshin Awaji Earthquake
Chapter 8. Employment Recovery in Post-Tsunami East Japan
Chapter 9. Community Recovery: Observation of Gathering Spaces in 2011 GEJET Affected Areas
Chapter10. Psychosocial Recovery of Foreign Residents in Post-Tsunami East Japan: A Case Study on Filipino Wives in Ofunato, Iwate
Part III. Comparative Approach to BBB in Disaster Recovery
Chapter 11. On Observing the Recovery of 2015 Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal
Chapter 12. Build Back Better in the Bangladesh Context
Chapter 13. Post Disaster Recovery in Myanmar: BBB after the Cyclone Nargis.