Tamiyo Kondo is a professor at the Research Center for Urban Safety and Security at Kobe University. She specializes in post-disaster housing recovery studies and explores the long-term recovery process from perspectives of livability, sustainability, resilience, equity, and justice in the built environment. She examined reconstruction efforts after the 2011 tsunami in Japan, which triggered urban sprawl, risks of landslides, urban fragmentation, and significant internal relocation. Kondo's recent article explored how the rationales and processes of residential buyouts may result in different consequences for coastal recovery, mitigation, and residents’ wellbeing. It also identified the characteristics of buyout programs in Japan and the U.S., effects of community buyouts, and consequences of mitigation and recovery.