Category Archives: Disaster Risk Reduction

Day_18 : Natural disasters in Thailand

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“More must be done to fight climate change” (Bangkok Post)
http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1034545/more-must-be-done-to-fight-climate-change

The above article was found on the Bangkok Post. The risk assessment mapping in Thailand* indicates the flood is the first priority to prepare. Disaster data infrastructure is challenging in Thailand to analyze. The culture to establish an excellent disaster management system in Thailand could be facilitated by the research based on the data infrastructure.

* Risk assessment mapping in Thailand (Tentative)

http://disasters.weblike.jp/disasters/archives/2935

The above was already published in JAEE report.

Day_16 : GNOCDC

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The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center (GNOCDC) website was found after the field survey on Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005. I was so amazed. This is one of the demographer’s great contributions to disaster research.
The site has the following:
http://www.datacenterresearch.org/pre-katrina/prekatrinasite.html

The site provides information on pre-Katrina situations in a parish. This is very useful to examine the social backgrounds of the areas in detail.
I wrote the paper by using these data to explain how human suffering was exacerbated by social backgrounds (sorry in Japanese; however, the summary and figures are in English).
http://dil-opac.bosai.go.jp/publication/nied_natural_disaster/pdf/41/41-05.pdf

 

Day_15 : Disaster Information

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Introduce you to how we can collect disaster information. There are two types. One is updated disaster information. The other is a database. If you want to know update disaster information. The followings are useful.

The Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) This is Asian countries’ info.
http://www.adrc.asia/latest/

RSOE EDIS
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php

Relief web
http://reliefweb.int/disasters

https://disasterresearchnotes.site/archives/3171

To be continued…….

Day_13 : Comparing the damage by the local municipality

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I am developing a human vulnerability Index (HVI). This developing story goes back to 2011. When I was researching the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami disaster, I needed to compare the damage by the local municipality, however, it was not so easy to compare the damage just by death toll, house destroyed numbers, and so on because population and geographical sizes of the municipalities are totally different. This is why I am doing this.

Day_12 : University’s roles for disaster risk reduction (1)

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I created the link on the institutions related to disaster risk reduction before.
http://dil.bosai.go.jp/link/world/english/index.html
We can see so many universities which have insititutions related to disaster risk reductions in the U.S. especially after the Hurricane Katrina in 2005. After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, the numbers of Japanese disaster related institutions have been increasing