Improved Risk Assessment of Tsunami Inundation Based on Geospatial and Local Knowledge for Sustainable Development

Jaya, Ni Made Pertiwi; Nagai, Masahiko; Reyes, Gallardo Mauricio; Miura, Fusanori

doi:10.24910/jsustain/6.1/2838

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“…Community mapping, an ethnographic tool inside human-centered design (HCD), is an interactive tool that has been developed in order to integrate the traditional knowledge and ideas of the people living within a community into the planning and development of an academic or business project [20,21]. This methodology allows a local community to describe the numerous characteristics of an area (such as risk-prone or polluted areas) through vocal and visual representations that facilitate the understanding of the socio-environmental conditions of the settlement [22][23][24]. Participatory or community mapping is not defined by the level of compliance with formal cartographic conventions, and whereas regular maps seek conformity, community maps embrace diversity in presentation and content.…”

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Understanding Community-Level Flooding Awareness in Remote Coastal Towns in Northern Chile through Community Mapping

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In 2015 and 2017 unusual ocean and atmospheric conditions produced many years’ worth of rainfall in short periods over Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, resulting in catastrophic flooding in the town of Chañaral. However, the town is not only at risk of fluvial flooding, it is also at risk of tsunamis. Through a community mapping exercise, the authors attempted to establish the level of community awareness about tsunamis, and contrasted it with that of other types of water-related hazards facing the town (namely that of flooding due to high intensity rain). This was then compared with the results of field surveys and tsunami hazard simulations, indicating than overall the community appears to have better awareness than authorities about the threat posed by these types of events. The authors thus concluded that in cases when the community has a high level of hazard awareness (which in the case of Chile was the result of traditional knowledge being transmitted from previous generations) it would be advantageous to include them in discussions on how to improve disaster resilience.

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Understanding Community-Level Flooding Awareness in Remote Coastal Towns in Northern Chile through Community Mapping

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Comparative Analysis of Tsunami Recovery Strategies in Small Communities in Japan and Chile

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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction emphasizes the need to rebuild better after a disaster to ensure that the at-risk communities can withstand a similar or stronger shock in the future. In the present work, the authors analyzed the reconstruction paths through a comparative analysis of the perspective of a community in Japan and another in Chile, and their respective local governments. While both countries are at risk to tsunamis, they follow different reconstruction philosophies. Data was gathered through key informant interviews of community members and local government officials, by adapting and modifying the Building Resilience to Adapt to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) 3As framework to a tsunami scenario. The 3As represent anticipatory, adaptive, and absorptive capacities as well as transformative capacities and respondents were asked to rate this according to their perspectives. It was found that while both communities perceive that much is to be done in recovery, Kirikiri has a more holistic and similar perspective of the recovery with their government officials as compared to Dichato. This shows that community reconstruction and recovery from a disaster requires a holistic participation and understanding.

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Estimates of Soil Renewal Rates: Applications for Anti-Erosion Arrangement of the Agricultural Landscape

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2019

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Engineering and geographic substantiation of the anti-erosion organization of agricultural landscapes requires not only differentiated estimations of erosion losses, but also commensurate (in terms of space–time scales) estimations of the soil loss tolerance. The main approaches for determining the participation of estimations of soil formation in the substantiation of erosion tolerance have been defined. This study is aimed at justifying the methods of incorporating the results of pedogenesis modeling into computational methods for organizing agricultural landscapes. This paper presents the results of a study of the process of formation of the humus horizon and the accumulation of organic carbon in soils, based on soils from archaeological sites in the Crimean Peninsula over a period from 25 to 2000 years ago, with differences in climate and parent rock, in a region with a thousand-year history of human activity. The patterns of variation in the thickness of the humus horizons over time and the accumulation of carbon were determined, and estimates for the rate of the pedogenesis were obtained. In connection with the slowing of the rate of pedogenesis over time, the chronofunction of the change in the thickness of soils (of both exponential and logistic types) may be applied and, on this basis, it is possible to calculate the rates of the formation of the humus horizon depending on the morphological status of the soils. During re-naturation of highly degraded soils, maximum renewal rates may take place only with a very high input of organic matter, which is crucial to take into account in the development and implementation of programs for the rehabilitation of degraded lands. Under the conditions of slope agriculture, the rationale for T-values should be linked to many factors of the input and consumption of organic carbon, which provides a logical mathematical model of the formation of soil quality. For soil quality management on agricultural lands, a formula for calculating T-values, using an equation where the rate of pedogenesis is associated with a variety of changes in soil organic carbon, is proposed in this article.

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Improved Risk Assessment of Tsunami Inundation Based on Geospatial and Local Knowledge for Sustainable Development

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Understanding Community-Level Flooding Awareness in Remote Coastal Towns in Northern Chile through Community Mapping

Understanding Community-Level Flooding Awareness in Remote Coastal Towns in Northern Chile through Community Mapping

Comparative Analysis of Tsunami Recovery Strategies in Small Communities in Japan and Chile

Estimates of Soil Renewal Rates: Applications for Anti-Erosion Arrangement of the Agricultural Landscape

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