Introduction of Disaster Response and Resilience Capability of the Pacific Island Countries to Japan

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26560181
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Natural disaster / Disaster prevention science
• Research Institution: Japan International Cooperation Agency (Research Institute) (2015); Fukushima University (2014)
• Principal Investigator: Mimura Satoru 独立行政法人国際協力機構(研究所), その他部局等, 研究員 (10648926)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NAKAMURA Yosuke 福島大学, 人間発達文化学類, 准教授 (80386515)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 被害予想・分析・対策 / 災害対応力

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Pacific Islands are thought as the most vulnerable countries against natural disasters in the world. However, they show coping capacity with disasters when they are affected. The major factors of the capacity are; "Social Structure" which binds families and communities in the traditional society, "Life Style" which copes with natural environment, "Sense of Risk and Evacuation" which saves lives of people affected, and "Disaster Awareness and Education."
Increase in damages and loss in urban areas is the major challenge. Development partners are required to support their urban planning, construction of structural measures, capacity development of weather observation and early warning.
International Cooperation of Disaster Risk Reduction should not be one-way traffic from the developed to the developing, but it should be a bilateral learning process of lessons learned.

Free Research Field

国際防災協力