ABSTRACT
Following a disaster, rapid regeneration of local industry as part of the rehabilitation and reconstruction phases is essential in the reconstruction of people’s living environments and the normalization of socioeconomic activities. Any impacts of disasters upon the industrial sector are likely to have signicant effects on the local economy, causing loss of employment and population outow in particular, and resulting in impacts that may spread throughout the country. Therefore, raising local economic resilience to disasters is an important issue not only for local governments but also for nations. The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, for example, put an incredible strain on the national economy and also had global impacts throughout the supply chains of industry. The disaster severely disrupted the supply of Japanese-made vehicle parts to automobile assembly plants, forcing Toyota, GM and major automotive manufacturers around the world to shut down production for a lengthy period of time (Ando and Kimura 2012). The 2011 Flood of Chao Phraya River in Thailand again was a further reminder of the risks of business disruptions, with impacts upon national, regional and global economies through their supply chains (Komori et al. 2012).
