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Research Team Revisited the Wenchuan Earthquake Epicenter in September, 2015
Seven years after the Wenchuan earthquake, in September, 2015, the principle investigator Professor Chaoping Hou (left) and co-investigator Dr. Haorui Wu (right) led their research team to revisit the town of Yinxiu (the epicenter of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake) and other communities in the worst-hit areas close to epicenter. Their field research documented community resilience after the Wenchuan earthquake to seek better understanding of the challenges and achievements of the long-term recovery process.
The research team will cooperate with the Faculty of Social Work at Sichuan Agricultural University to facilitate a research project regarding the evolution the effect of adaptive social protection policy after the Wenchuan earthquake on poverty reduction and social protection in the communities of the quake-hit area. Following this partnership research project, the research team is planning to extend this project, covering the social protection issue in the broader rural community redevelopment process.
