EnDURE (Environmental Disaster Urban Recovery and Evaluation) Model is a cellular-automata based multi-agent model that simulates emergent urban development after major natural disasters. This project is partially funded by the Pacific Disaster Center.
 
EnDURE represents the affected areas, together with their geographical variables, on a fine grid and then simulates local decision processes associated with thousands of residents, and with international organizations of varied priorities, and with various levels of governments (all are agents), each one looking at different sets of local variables and external conditions (for instance, investment and donations). While high-level, top-down decision making may direct institutional resources to comprehensive disaster recovery, individual decisions in terms of both organized but varied institutional interests and disorganized spontaneous decisions have significant impacts on the recovery process.
 
Actual overall recovery emerges from the decisions of many thousands of individuals whose lives, property, and communities comprise the urban area affected by the disaster.
 
The following is a simple demonstration of EnDURE model, using a case study of post-tsunami recovery in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.