Case studies on rural road improvement and disaster prevention measures with community initiatives in Asia and the Pacific

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25303007
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Social systems engineering/Safety system
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Kimura Makoto 京都大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (30177927)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KISHIDA Kiyoshi 京都大学, 大学院工学研究科, 准教授 (20243066)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): NARITA Hironari 桜花学園大学, 学芸学部, 教授 (40189212)
• Research Collaborator: FUKUBAYASHI Yoshinori NPO法人道普請人
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: コミュニティ組織力 / 農道 / 防災対策工 / 影響評価 / アジア太平洋州 / 開発途上国

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The construction structure, feasible work items, and costs have been summarized through analysing the cases of rural road improvement and disaster prevention measures with community initiatives in Asia and the Pacific which were implemented under the local resource based approach. The social studies have been conducted in the project sites in Papua New Guinea and Myanmar, which found that the both communities appreciated the improvement of the access to the hospital and schools and development of the economic activities through the road works.
The comparative social analysis on the two project areas have been conducted as an attempt to grasp the relevance between the extension and adoption of the infrastructure improvement with community initiatives and social background of the sites. It was confirmed that the proposed approach for rural road improvement and disaster prevention was applicable in Africa, the Middle and South America.

Free Research Field

地盤工学