Many planners tend to overlook people's experiences of disaster and the different strategies they use to cope with and respond to disasters within the recovery process.
Erikson reinforces the importance of understanding the grassroots social and collective experiences of disaster impacts.
Ryan McIntosh's new gallery show, "Relentless Envy," opened at Stone Malone Gallery on Friday, featuring a multimedia installation of disquieting works exploring the experience of disasters through photography, survival imagery, and artifacts from the World Trade Center.
"In New York, where the experience of disaster is no foreign subject, I hope that visitors to In the Wake are able to connect the experience of 3/11 to personal experiences," Kamiya says.
The study found that the intensity of the experience of disaster, a characteristic symptom of PTSD, was still very much present in some of the survivors' lives.
The experience of disaster followed by substandard living conditions might lead to various levels of impact according to survivors' mental and physical properties.
Important lessons learned from the long history and experiences of flood disasters point to the need for better solutions to reduce damage to property and life.
Since a variety of writers in different genres, and even amateurs, have written and published books inspired by their experiences of the disaster, it is extremely difficult to cover the entire body of Japanese "post-3.11 literature".
