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Japan's Integration of All-Hazard Resilience and Covid-19 Countermeasures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Andrew DeWit
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In Japan, Covid-19 has led to an accelerating diffusion of all-hazard, disaster-resilient, policy integration. This paper shows that Japanese experts not only built a resource-efficient Covid-19 response, but are also using the crisis to ramp up Japanese-style collaboration on resource-efficient and sustainable communities, both in Japan and overseas. In a year when action on the climate challenge everywhere risks being derailed, Japan's initiatives are an important indicator of how it remains possible to stay on track. Japan's measures further integrate the UN 2030 Agenda's three pillars of the Paris Agreement, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the Sendai Framework of Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR). In short, Japan is using the pandemic as yet another opportunity to accelerate transformative industrial policy.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 18 , Issue 11 , May 2020 , e2
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