Development of integration method of social science data and model for building a multidimensional analytical model of flood resilience

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18KK0360
• Research Category: Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (A))
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Medium-sized Section 25:Social systems engineering, safety engineering, disaster prevention engineering, and related fields
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: KAWASAKI Akiyuki 東京大学, 未来ビジョン研究センター, 教授 (00401696)
• Project Period (FY): 2019 – 2023
• Keywords: 水災害 / デルタ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research to build a multidimensional analytical model of flood resilience started in August 2019, in collaboration with the Center for Geographical Analysis (CGA) of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University. During the one and a half year stay at Harvard, interdisciplinary discussions with Professor Amrita of Asian Environmental Studies and researchers at CGA, as well as activities to strengthen international research networks at MIT, Boston University, Northeastern University, and other nearby universities were conducted.
It is regrettable that the symposium on this research, which we had prepared to hold at Harvard University, was cancelled due to the impact of COVID-19 in 2020. However, as the expansion of COVID-19 has calmed down since 2022, we were able to resume our travel to the United States and proceed with the research almost as planned.

Free Research Field

水災害リスク軽減

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の成果として、19編の査読つき原著論文を国際ジャーナルに出版するとともに、ハーバード大学が主催する国際会議で招待講演を行ったり、その他の国際会議での講演などを通して、本研究の成果を世界的に広く発信した。また、本研究成果を発展させたかたちでの新たな日米共同研究を立案し、日米両国の研究ファンド機関に研究提案を申請するに至った。タイのチュラロンコン大学やミャンマーのヤンゴン工科大学(YTU)、スリランカのペラデニア大学、バングラデシュ工科大学（BUET）等と国際共著論文を多く出版できたことは学術的に大きな成果であり、アジアモンスーン地域の主要大学との連携を強化したことは社会的に意義が大きい。