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particularly houses. Governments are forced to invest a huge amount of resources for aid of the }kDrUnBk
evacuees, demolition of debris, construction of temporary houses and permanent houses, due to 5hMiCod
collapse of houses. Vulnerable houses with adobe, stone, or brick, which are commonly seen o++Hdvai
throughout the developing world, exist in a huge number and are being reproduced. The Kobe 0
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Earthquake in 1995 revealed that the Japanese common wooden houses are also vulnerable against =@>&kU%$&
earthquakes. It is therefore indispensable to make existing houses safer by retrofitting for effective a\MJbBXv
earthquake disaster management. However, it is difficult to motivate people for retrofitting as w5Xdq_e3
people tend to choose future uncertain loss rather than the current loss, i.e. investment for J:a^''
retrofitting. This paper discusses how people can be motivated for retrofitting and then proposes H@:@zD!G[
new directions to be incorporated into earthquake disaster management