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After the massive disaster of East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11, 2011, education sectors such as schools and board of education (BOE) in tsunami-affected area faced many hazards and challenges immediately and continuously. This chapter describes how educational institutions have been implementing the strategies for recovering schools and education from the disaster of earthquake and tsunami through the Cases of Kesennuma City Board of Education and Schools in Kesennuma. Kesennuma City has been promoting the Education for sustainable Development (ESD) as a part of school and community linkages. Through documenting the examples of a few specific schools, the chapter emphasizes that providing school lunch, arranging schools bus, providing scholarships to the affected children were some of the urgent tasks to restart the regular education process in the post disaster scenario. It is concluded that the ESD program has positive impact on strengthening the school community linkage, and the disaster risk reduction should be part of the future ESD programs.
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Oikawa, Y. (2014). Institutional Response in Education Sector in Kesennuma City. In: Shaw, R. (eds) Disaster Recovery. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54255-1_6
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