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particularly houses. Governments are forced to invest a huge amount of resources for aid of the
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evacuees, demolition of debris, construction of temporary houses and permanent houses, due to !\JG]2 \
collapse of houses. Vulnerable houses with adobe, stone, or brick, which are commonly seen 0gm+R3;k^
throughout the developing world, exist in a huge number and are being reproduced. The Kobe OQ
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Earthquake in 1995 revealed that the Japanese common wooden houses are also vulnerable against 1& YcCN\k
earthquakes. It is therefore indispensable to make existing houses safer by retrofitting for effective Itr yiU9
earthquake disaster management. However, it is difficult to motivate people for retrofitting as qeQTW@6
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retrofitting. This paper discusses how people can be motivated for retrofitting and then proposes <4^ _dJ9 =
new directions to be incorporated into earthquake disaster management
