TY  - GEN
N2  - Earthquake events can cause affected households to relocate. Post-earthquake relocation
disrupts displaced households? social ties as well as their access to affordable services. Simulation
models that capture post-earthquake relocation decision-making can be useful tools for supporting the
development of related disaster risk reduction policies that aim at mitigating disaster-induced relocation.
Yet, existing versions of these models focus particularly on housing-related factors (e.g., housing repair
costs), which are not the sole driver of post-earthquake relocation. In this paper, we integrate data-driven
approaches and local perspectives into an existing simulation-based framework to holistically capture
various context-specific factors perceived as being important to household relocation decision-making.
The enhanced framework is used to quantitatively assess the effectiveness of various disaster risk
reduction policies - both ?soft? (e.g., post-earthquake livelihood assistance funds) and ?hard? (e.g.,
upgrading existing infrastructure facilities to higher building codes) - in reducing post-earthquake
household relocation, with an explicit focus on low-income households. We demonstrate it using a
possible future (50-year) projection of ?Tomorrowville?, a synthetic expanding urban extent that imitates
a Global South setting. Our analyses suggest that livelihood assistance funds are more successful and
pro-poor when it comes to mitigating positive post-earthquake relocation decision-making than hard
policies focused on strengthening buildings (at least in the context of the examined case study).
ID  - discovery10181510
PB  - Trinity College Dublin
UR  - https://icasp14.com/presenter/proceedings/
CY  - Dublin,Ireland
A1  - Wang, Chenbo
A1  - Cremen, Gemma
A1  - Galasso, Carmine
T3  - ICASP 14 Conference
TI  - Leveraging Data-driven Approaches to Explore the Effect of Various
Disaster Policies on Post-earthquake Household Relocation Decision-making
AV  - public
SP  - 1
Y1  - 2023/07/13/
EP  - 8
N1  - This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
ER  -