The 2017 International Training Workshop on Natural Disaster Reduction on Regional and Local Best Practices of Post-Disaster Recovery: Building Sustainability and Resilience through Scientific Approaches Catastrophic events caused by nature hazards have adversely impacted operations of governments and livelihoods of citizens. Implementations of disaster risk reduction will directly lead to enhancing resilience of impacted areas with assistance of science and technology during period of post-disaster recovery. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 highlights a pathway, “Build Back Better”, that is a crucial concept to profoundly recover from damages and destruction through processes of building up resilience. The processes include evidence-based plans for recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction which able to reflect lessons learned from past disasters. Nowadays, post-disaster recovery is way beyond “restoring back to prior to disaster.” It is important to make communities both sustainable and resilient to disasters though carrying out rehabilitation and reconstruction with scientific supports for not duplicating mistakes ever made before. This goal could be achieved through applying state-of-the-art technology and integrating approaches of disaster risk reduction into recovery measures and policies as well as by building public-private partnership on strengthening regional and local capacity to cope with disasters. The workshop is aimed to promoting cross-boundary exchanges of science and technology related to post-disaster recovery. Especially, experiences and the best practices of Southeast and Asia South Asia are also focal issues to cover. The 2017 Workshop will be entitled as “Regional and Local Best Practices of Post-Disaster Recovery: Building Sustainability and Resilience through Scientific Approaches”. International and local experts will introduce how to apply scientific outputs to post-disaster recovery, and share the best recovery practices learned from the Chi-Chi Earthquake as well as Typhoon Morakot recovery. This Workshop will be beneficial to facilitate interactions between Taiwan and the international society. Besides two-day-indoor lectures, the program will bring participants to visit recovery cases from Typhoon Morakot in eastern part of Taiwan. Though the filed visit, it will offer examples and models of how Public-Private-Partnerships link scientific community, NGOs and indigenous tribe to work together on “Build Back Better.”