Towards an integrated management framework for emerging disaster risks in Japan

Ikeda, Saburo; Sato, Teruko; Fukuzono, Teruki

doi:10.1007/s11069-007-9124-3

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“…These functions of WebGIS can be applied to understand risks to allow communities to better prepare and respond to them [122,123]. Workshops of scenario-based risk communication with the local community are effective for enhancing the local capacity for handling DRM information platforms [124].…”

Section: Webgismentioning

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Reviews of Geospatial Information Technology and Collaborative Data Delivery for Disaster Risk Management

Miyazaki

Nagai

Shibasaki

2015

IJGI

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Due to the fact that geospatial information technology is considered necessary for disaster risk management (DRM), the need for more effective collaborations between providers and end users in data delivery is increasing. This paper reviews the following: (i) schemes of disaster risk management and collaborative data operation in DRM; (ii) geospatial information technology in terms of applications to the schemes reviewed; and (iii) ongoing practices of collaborative data delivery with the schemes reviewed. This paper concludes by discussing the future of collaborative data delivery and the progress of the technologies.

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Section: Webgismentioning

confidence: 99%

Reviews of Geospatial Information Technology and Collaborative Data Delivery for Disaster Risk Management

Miyazaki

Nagai

Shibasaki

2015

IJGI

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“…As far as research on disaster risk management in Japan is concerned, DPRI (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University) and IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) initiated jointly the Integrated Disaster Risk Management Project in 2001 (Amendola et al 2008). In the same year, NIED also began a project Social Systems Resilient to Disasters to explore various integrative approaches to risk management based on case studies in local communities in order to reorganize coping capability against disaster risk in Japan (Ikeda, Sato, and Fukuzono 2008). Various types of integrated management approaches and tools of communicating risks among stakeholders were developed to support the improvement of the residents' understanding of risk information about such issues as the nature of disaster risk, the content of hazard maps, types of disaster insurance, measures and routes of evacuation, and other countermeasures to respond in advance to risks (Ammann 2006;Alexander 2006;).…”

Section: From Traditional Risk Management To Risk Governancementioning

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An emergent framework of disaster risk governance towards innovating coping capability for reducing disaster risks in local communities

Ikeda

Nagasaka

2011

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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An emergent framework of disaster risk governance is presented as an implementation strategy for integrated risk management that incorporates innovative local coping capabilities that reduce disaster vulnerability. This framework calls for enhancement of self-support and mutualassistance through strengthening informal or social networking efforts in local communities, rather than depending on formal or institutional governmental-assistance. The framework is supported by a societal platform of disaster risk information, called DRIP, which the NIED (National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Japan) has developed since 2006 as a tool that promotes improved disaster risk governance. With the help of DRIP, residents, communities, and other stakeholders, linked horizontally or vertically with social networks, can (1) improve their awareness of disaster risks and management issues by sharing risk information as scientific expertise, experiential knowledge, and local/folk wisdom; (2) customize risk communication through analytic deliberation of risk information by employing risk-scenarios developed by residents themselves; (3) develo p collaborative activities for informed decision-making that can fully utilize local resources to reorganize coping capability against disaster risks; and (4) disseminate the generated risk scenarios with action plans to other residents who have not participated in the risk communication process.

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“…In the United Kingdom, the Flood Foresight project concluded that expected annual flood damages may increase twentyfold by the 2080s if flood risk management policy were to remain as it is at present (Evans et al 2004;Hall, Sayers, and Dawson 2005). In Japan, Ikeda, Sato, and Fukuzono (2008) developed various flood risk scenarios in their search for resilient social systems against flood disasters.…”

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Dilemmas and pathways to dealing with flood problems in twenty-first century China

Han

Kasperson

2011

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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With more than 60 percent of China's 1.34 billion population, about 50 percent of its most productive arable land, and the world's second largest and rapidly growing national GDP exposed to flooding of various kinds, China has an intractable flood problem. Envisioning potential impacts of climate change and continued intensification of floodplain development driven by rapid industrialization and urbanization, it is very likely that China will see a continued increase of exposure to floods this century. This overview article outlines and discusses fundamental dilemmas, plausible pathways, and key options for managing future flood risks in China in the context of rapid socioeconomic transition and climate change. Fundamental dilemmas are the embedded difficult trade-off choices, from balancing economic development with flood vulnerability reduction, to coordination and cooperation among increasingly diverse actors and across scales. Among plausible pathways, this article argues that a resilience strategy for managing flood risk is desirable. It would require human adjustment to flood, not by aiming for full protection and control but by adjusting our use of floodplains, integrating and experimenting with a wide range of flood risk management options, so that a dynamic balance is maintained between exposure and coping capacity and flood risk is contained at an acceptable level. Embracing variability and uncertainty lies at the heart of such a flood resilience centered paradigm. Reducing the flood toll cannot be had without trade-offs in economic development, food production, and agricultural productivity.

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Towards an integrated management framework for emerging disaster risks in Japan

Cited by 51 publications

References 6 publications

Reviews of Geospatial Information Technology and Collaborative Data Delivery for Disaster Risk Management

Reviews of Geospatial Information Technology and Collaborative Data Delivery for Disaster Risk Management

An emergent framework of disaster risk governance towards innovating coping capability for reducing disaster risks in local communities

Dilemmas and pathways to dealing with flood problems in twenty-first century China

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