Abstract
Models of hazards and disasters are increasingly used to help to develop disaster-related policies and plans. Unfortunately, readily available modelling tools, such as the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency's Hazus model provide inadequate representation of housing recovery. Most disaster-related housing models are focused on the immediate impacts of earthquakes in terms of physical damage and economic losses. This paper introduces a new simulation modelling programming library called DESaster (discrete event simulation of disaster recovery) for building disaster recovery simulation models, which currently focuses exclusively on housing recovery. A brief overview of DESaster is provided prior to describing its application to model housing recovery after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. The DESaster library was found to be flexible enough to construct a specific model of housing recovery in Nepal. More specifically, it was found to be particularly useful for better understanding resource needs, such as construction materials and skilled labourers, through comparison of different allocation scenarios.
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