1995 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Built-in Disaster Mitigating Urban Management of Hillside Towns
| Project/Area Number |
06680427
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Natural disaster science
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| Research Institution | KYOTO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
OKADA Norio Kyoto Univ., Disaster Prevention Research Institut Professor, 防災研究所, 教授 (00026296)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HAGIWARA Yoshimi Univ.of Ryutsukagaku, Faculty of Commerce Prof., 商学部, 教授 (00268567)
SUGIMAN Toshio Kyoto Univ., Faculty of Comprehensive Human Science, Assoc.Prof., 総合人間学部, 助教授 (10135642)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1994 – 1995
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| Keywords | Hillside Town / Disaster Mitigation / Urban Management / Risk Analysis / Conflict Analysis / Social Survey |
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| Research Abstract |
A new perspective of built-in disaster mitigating urban management of hillside towns has been proposed by Okada and his research collaborators for this project. A taxonomy of hillside towns has been created with reference to their geographical, environmental and socio-economic characteristics. Based on this perspective, prototype hillside towns have been identified and modeled for the case study cities of Nagasaki and Kobe.
Okada and Sugiman have collaborated in the field survey of Nagasaki City and collected information and data needed for the analysis that followed. Hagihara and Okada jointly worked to build analytical models to derive policy implications for the management of Nagasaki City with disaster mitigation duly built in. Specifically, a conflict analysis has been made to coordinate developmental interests with those of disaster mitigation.
As a related study, the method of "robustness analysis" has been developed by Okada et al and it has been shown to be a powerful analytical tool to deal with uncertainties involved in identifying model parameters.
Further research has been conducted to study the Hanshin Region which suffered from the Great Hanshin Earthquake. It has been noted that our new research perspective also applies to this earthquake-stricken region. Sugiman has carried out a field survey of the region, with a particular focus on the roles of communities and voluntary activities. An approach by use of "group dynamics" helped identify policy implications for the management of community and voluntary groups for disaster mitigation.
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