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Vol.10 (2015)
No.6
(Dec)
The First JDR Award
Mini Special Issue on Space Microbiology: Microbial Monitoring in the International Space Station – “Kibo”
The First JDR Award
Award: | p. 1017 | |
Congratulations! The First JDR Award |
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Dr. Murakami and Dr. Takiguchi |
Award: | p. 1018 | |
Presenting the First JDR Award |
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Katsuki Takiguchi |
Award: | p. 1019 | |
Message from the Winners |
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Fumio Yamazaki and Carlos Zavala |
Mini Special Issue on Space Microbiology: Microbial Monitoring in the International Space Station – “Kibo”
Review: | pp. 1022-1024 | ||
Microbes and Crewed Space Habitat |
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Nobuyasu Yamaguchi and Masao Nasu |
Review: | pp. 1025-1030 | ||
Microbial Observatory Research in the International Space Station and Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” |
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Masaki Shirakawa, Fumiaki Tanigaki, and Takashi Yamazaki |
Review: | pp. 1031-1034 | ||
Significance of Changes in the Skin Fungal Microbiomes of Astronauts Staying on the International Space Station |
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Takashi Sugita and Otomi Cho |
Review: | pp. 1035-1039 | ||
Bacterial Monitoring in the International Space Station – “Kibo” |
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Tomoaki Ichijo, Nobuyasu Yamaguchi, and Masao Nasu |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 1041-1050 | ||
Disaster Warning System in the Philippines Through Enterprise Engineering Perspective: A Study on the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan |
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Natt Leelawat, Anawat Suppasri, Shuichi Kure, Carine J. Yi, Cherry May R. Mateo, and Fumihiko Imamura |
Paper: | pp. 1051-1066 | ||
Organizational Structure and Institutions for Disaster Prevention: Research on the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in Kobe City |
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Masahiro Matsuyama, Reo Kimura, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 1067-1080 | ||
The 1755 Lisbon Tsunami at Vila do Bispo Municipality, Portugal |
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Angela Santos and Shunichi Koshimura |
Paper: | pp. 1081-1090 | |
A Distributed Autonomous Approach to Developing a Disaster Evacuation Assist System |
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Yasuki Iizuka, Katsuya Kinoshita, and Kayo Iizuka |
Paper: | pp. 1091-1098 | ||
Impacts of Business Continuity Management (BCM) on Automobile Parts Makers Against Natural Disaster Events |
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Abednico Lopang Montshiwa and Akio Nagahira |
Paper: | pp. 1099-1109 | ||
Flood Inundation Analysis and Mitigation with a Coupled 1D-2D Hydraulic Model: A Case Study in Kochi, Japan |
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M. A. C. Niroshinie, Yasuo Nihei, Kazuaki Ohtsuki, and Shoji Okada |
Paper: | pp. 1110-1116 | ||
Pricing Earthquake Catastrophe Options Based on the Mixed-Multinomial Tree Model |
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Feixing Wang and Xiaoling Gu |
Paper: | pp. 1117-1125 | ||
Disaster Education for Elementary School Students Using Disaster Prevention Pocket Notebooks and Quizzes |
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Rui Nouchi, Shosuke Sato, and Fumihiko Imamura |
No.5
(Oct)
Special Issue on Creating Community-Based Robust and Resilient Society
Special Issue on Creating Community-Based Robust and Resilient Society
Editorial: | pp. 791-793 | |
Creating Community-Based Robust and Resilient Society |
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Takashi Furuya, Haruo Hayashi | ||
The “risk society” has become a key 21st century theme due to the economic expansion and population explosion spurred by science and technology development during the 20th century. We must create societies resilient against risk to preserve well-being and continue sustainable development. Although the ideal would be to create a society free from disaster and crisis, resources are limited. To achieve a more resilient society using these resources, we must become wise enough to identify the risks threatening society and clarify how we are to prepare against them. The traditional engineering approach is limited by its aim to reduce damage reduction as functional system of hazard, exposure, and vulnerability by focusing on mitigative action. We must instead add two factors – human activity and time dependency after a disaster – to make society more risk-resilient. The Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) seeks to create new social, public, and economic value by solving obvious problems in society. In promoting science and technology R&D for society, RISTEX supports the building of networks enabling researchers and stakeholders to cooperate in solving societal problems. Our initiatives use R&D employing knowledge in the field of the humanities and social sciences, combined with natural sciences and technologies. Based on these existing accumulated knowledge and skills, scientifically verifying issues and lessons learned from these disasters, RISTEX launched a new R&D focus area, entitled “Creating a Community-Based Robust and Resilient Society,” in 2012. This R&D focus is to develop disaster risk reduction systems making society robust and resilient in the face of large-scale disasters. Two crucial key words in this focus area are “community” and “links.” Specifically, we must reexamine community frameworks to facilitate how diverse elements of society – industry, academia, government, and citizens – can be l...<more> |
Paper: | pp. 794-806 | ||
Support for Farmland Restoration Through Mutual Assistance After Flood Disasters in Hilly and Mountainous Areas – Cases of the Cities of Yame and Ukiha Affected by the Torrential Rainfall in Northern Kyushu in July 2012 – |
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Kazuo Asahiro, Masakazu Tani, and Hiroyuki Kanekiyo |
Paper: | pp. 807-817 | ||
A Study on Community-Based Reconstruction from Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster – A Case Study of Iwanuma City in Miyagi-Pref. |
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Mikiko Ishikawa |
Paper: | pp. 818-829 | ||
Reconstruction of Coastal Villages Swept Away by Tsunami by 3D Digital Model |
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Akinobu Murakami, Eiko Kumakura, and Mikiko Ishikawa |
Paper: | pp. 830-844 | ||
Computer-Assisted Databasing of Disaster Management Information Through Natural Language Processing |
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Kentaro Inui, Yotaro Watanabe, Kenshi Yamaguchi, Shingo Suzuki, Hiroko Koumoto, Naoko Kosaka, Akira Koyama, Tomohiro Kokogawa, and Yuji Maeda |
Paper: | pp. 845-856 | ||
Study on an Online Communication and Task Management System for Disaster Response Utilizing Natural Language Processing |
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Shingo Suzuki, Kentaro Inui, Kenshi Yamaguchi, Hiroko Koumoto, Naoko Kosaka, Akira Koyama, and Yuji Maeda |
Paper: | pp. 857-873 | ||
Proposal and Practice of Comprehensive Disaster Mitigation Depending on Communities in Preservation Districts for Traditional Buildings |
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Hajime Yokouchi |
Paper: | pp. 874-886 | ||
Challenges for Safe and Secure Community Development in Traditional Architectures Preservation Districts – A Case Study on Tochigi District |
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Saori Kawazoe, Saikaku Toyokawa, Fumiko Imai, and Masaki Urano |
Paper: | pp. 887-899 | ||
A Proposal of Multi-Scale Urban Disaster Mitigation Planning that Takes Regional Issues into Consideration |
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U Hiroi, Akito Murayama, Yoshihiro Chiba, Hisashi Komatsu, Masafumi Mori, Keiichi Yamada, Masato Yamazaki, and Nobuo Fukuwa |
Paper: | pp. 900-918 | ||
Sustainable Training-Model Development Based on Analysis of Disaster Medicine Training |
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Shoichi Ohta, Munekazu Takeda, Ryo Sasaki, Hirotaka Uesugi, Hironobu Kamagata, Kentaro Kawai, Satomi Kuroshima, Michie Kawashima, Masaki Onishi, and Ikushi Yoda |
Paper: | pp. 919-928 | ||
Critical Review of Japanese Disaster Medical Education for Citizens: Exploring the Method of Medutainment |
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Ikushi Yoda, Momo Shiroyama, Hirotaka Uesugi, Hironobu Kamagata, and Shoichi Ohta |
Paper: | pp. 929-938 | ||
Disaster Prevention Activities of Japanese Fire Companies |
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Atsushi Sakuma, Ichiro Matsuo, Shin Ito, Shigeyoshi Tanaka, and Tsugio Nakaseko |
Paper: | pp. 948-955 | ||
Grasp of Utilization of Social Networking Services in Restoration Process – Interview Survey for N City-Related Citizens of the Great East Japan Earthquake – |
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Shosuke Sato, Hiroko Koumoto, and Shigeo Tatsuki |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 957-965 | ||
Model of Tsunami Preparedness for Indonesian Tsunami Prone Areas Communities |
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Any Nurhayaty, Supra Wimbarti, Radianta Triatmadja, and Thomas D. Hastjarjo |
Paper: | pp. 966-972 | ||
Analysis of Factors Triggering Shallow Failure and Deep-Seated Landslides Induced by Single Rainfall Events |
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Teng-To Yu, Ting-Shiuan Wang, and Youg-Sin Cheng |
Paper: | pp. 973-980 | ||
Understanding Household Mobilization Time During Natech Accident Evacuation |
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Junlei Yu and Akihiko Hokugo |
Paper: | pp. 981-990 | ||
A Case Study on Estimation of Business Interruption Losses to Industrial Sectors Due to Flood Disasters |
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Lijiao Yang, Hirokazu Tatano, Yoshio Kajitani, and Xinyu Jiang |
Paper: | pp. 991-1000 | ||
Climate Change Impact on the Manageability of Floods and Droughts of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basins Using Flood Duration Curves and Drought Duration Curves |
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Muhammad Masood and Kuniyoshi Takeuchi |
No.sp
(Sep)
Special Issue on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster: Part IV
Special Issue on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster: Part IV
Editorial: | p. 709 | |
the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster: Part IV |
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Katsuki Takiguchi | ||
The basic policy of the Journal of Disaster Research (JDR), as a multidisciplinary academicjournal, is to cover all types of disasters ? except for war ? through a broad comprehensive perspective. Since its inaugural issue in August 2006, the JDR has been published bimonthly,with six issues a year. 2015 marks the tenth year since the JDRfs first issue. Among the many events happening during this decade is the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster which was induced by the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake.This event had two major features ? that the tsunami accompanying the earthquake caused the main damage and that it triggered a nuclear hazard accident at a nuclear power plant. The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster was a unprecedented earthquake disaster called catastrophic hazard following two others ? the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake Disasterthat leveled Tokyo and the 1995 Hanshin Awaji Earthquake Disaster that destroyed parts of Osaka and Kobe. In view of this catastrophic hazardfs scale, the JDR decided to publish special annual issues on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster for five years since 2012 in addition to its regularissues. No publication fee was charged to contributors and support was asked from corporations. Papers on the special issues are published mainly online as an e-journal though printed editions are published for archival purposes. The current issue is the fourth of these special issues, and contributors have covered the 2011 disaster from many a wide range of perspectives. 21 papers were submitted and 8 papers are accepted for publication after peer review. The editors are confident that, like the previous three issues, this issue fully measure up to the quality that was expected for the special issue. I wish to express my gratitude to the contributors and reviewers and to thank corporations for their invaluable support. |
Survey Report: | pp. 711-715 | ||
Safety of Food Produced in Japan: Past and Present Status of Radioactive Contamination |
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Hideaki Karaki |
Paper: | pp. 716-727 | ||
Public Health Concerns on Radiation Exposure After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident |
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Reiko Kanda, Satsuki Tsuji, Hidenori Yonehara, and Masami Torikoshi |
Paper: | pp. 728-735 | ||
Initial Responses of the Government of Japan to the Great East Japan Earthquake (Earthquake and Tsunami) and Lessons Learned from Them |
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Akira Kotaki |
Paper: | pp. 736-754 | ||
Research on Planning Process of Community Disaster Management Plan at Tsunami-Hit Area |
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Tadahiro Yoshikawa |
Paper: | pp. 755-769 | ||
Issues Facing Voluntary Evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident Based on the Collection and Analysis of Cases of Voluntary Evacuation |
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Kota Tomoyasu, Reo Kimura, Hitomi Mashima, and Ikuno Kazama |
Paper: | pp. 770-776 | ||
Proposal for Robust Monitoring of Catastrophic Tsunami Using Onshore Strain and Tilt Geodetic Sensors |
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Hiroaki Takahashi |
Paper: | pp. 777-782 | ||
Business Continuity Management (BCM) for Regional Financial Functionalities in Wide-Area Disasters Importance and Challenges in Cooperation Among Regional Financial Institutions and PPP (Public-Private Partnership) |
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Kenji Watanabe |
Paper: | pp. 783-786 | ||
Application of Natural Disaster Information for Supply Chain Resilience |
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Takahiro Ono and Kenji Watanabe |
No.4
(Aug)
Celebrating 10th anniversary
Special Issue on Fire and Disaster Prevention Technologies
Celebrating 10th anniversary
Message: | p. 575 | |
Message from Editors-in-Chief |
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Suminao Murakami and Katsuki Takiguchi |
Message: | p. 576 | |
Congratulatory Message |
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Takashi Onishi |
Message: | pp. 577-578 | |
Congratulatory Message |
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Hongey Chen |
Message: | p. 579 | |
Congratulatory Message |
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Pierre Y. Julien |
Message: | p. 580 | |
Disseminating Knowledge for Reducing Disaster Damage |
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Nobuo Shuto |
Message: | pp. 581-582 | |
Promoting Disaster Resilience Around the World |
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Kenneth C. Topping |
Special Issue on Fire and Disaster Prevention Technologies
Editorial: | p. 583 | |
Fire and Disaster Prevention Technologies |
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Tomonori Kawano, Kazuya Uezu, and Takaaki Kato | ||
It’s a great pleasure and honor to publish the special issue on “Fire and Disaster Prevention Technologies” in the Journal of Disaster Research. All of its 7 papers have been peerreviewed. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to the contributors and reviewers involved in producing these articles, especially to Dr. Masafumi Hosokawa, Chief, Planning for Community-Based Cooperation National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster, Fire and Disaster Management Agency Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications for his great support. The Research and Development center of Fire and Environmental Safety (RDFES) was established in April 2008 as a research institute within the Faculty of Environmental Engineering, the University of Kitakyushu. The RDFES is the first academic institute in Japan to contribute to environmental engineering and firefighting technology for social safety, and focuses on the environmental researches to overcome the worldwide serious firefighting problem, for example huge forest fires, and consequently contributes to create the epoch-making products for the environmental conservation and the safety of citizens. RDFES has become well known among firefighting professionals for its development of an “Environmentally friendly soap-based firefighting agent,” as well as new equipment that maximizes the effectiveness of the agent. This is just one example of successful collaboration between RDFES, the Kitakyushu City Fire and Disaster Management Department, a local soap company, and major firefighting enterprises in Japan. Today, RDFES is entering a new research area involving local communities and governments, which aims tomitigate and minimize the risk of fire and natural disasters. Researchers are engaged not only in the development of hardware but also in the creation of an organized social movement that could ensure more effective use of the hardware. We hope that the collaboration among industry, academia, and government will be more useful and powerful towards solving serious problems on “fire and environmental safety” through the mediation of this special issue. And reaching out to local communi...<more> |
Commentary: | pp. 584-585 | ||
Research and Development Efforts in Fire Safety and Disaster Preparedness |
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Masafumi Hosokawa |
Paper: | pp. 586-594 | ||
Fire Protection Analysis and Potential Improvements for Wooden Cultural Heritage Sites in Japan |
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Kwang-Il Kim, Tadashi Konishi, Tomek Ziemba, Hirofumi Nonaka, Ki-Hun Nam, and Takeyoshi Tanaka |
Development Report: | pp. 595-603 | ||
A New Concept for Development of Quartz Crystal Microbalance Fire Prevention Sensors Modified with Nano-Assembled Thin Films |
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Seung-Woo Lee |
Paper: | pp. 604-612 | ||
Learning from the Eco-Toxicology of Fire-Fighting Foams in Aquatic Organisms: Altered Eco-Toxicity of Sodium Alkyl Sulfonates on Green Paramecia and Medaka Fish Maintained in Different Waters |
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Kaishi Goto, Hiroshi Takaichi, and Tomonori Kawano |
Paper: | pp. 613-619 | ||
Development of Firefighting Equipment for Efficient Firefighting Strategy (Development of New Hose) |
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Yoshiaki Miyazato, Takumi Sasaki, Masaki Sakaguchi, and Atsushi Nakamura |
Paper: | pp. 620-626 | ||
Development of Firefighting Equipment for Efficient Firefighting Strategy (Development of New Nozzle) |
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Takumi Sasaki, Yoshiaki Miyazato, Junji Inamoto, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Atsushi Nakamura |
Paper: | pp. 627-634 | ||
Investigating the Gap Between Actual and Perceived Distance from a Nuclear Power Plant: A Case Study in Japan |
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Takaaki Kato, Shogo Takahara, and Toshimitsu Homma |
Review: | pp. 635-640 | ||
The Rise and Fall of the Kobe Economy from the 1995 Earthquake |
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Yasuhide Okuyama |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 641-646 | ||
Compared Modeling Study of Primary Water Stress Corrosion Cracking at Dissimilar Weld of Alloy 182 of Pressurized Water Nuclear Reactor According to Hydrogen Concentration |
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Omar F. Aly, Miguel M. Neto, Mônica M. A. M. Schvartzman, and Luciana I. L. Lima |
Paper: | pp. 647-654 | ||
Performance Evaluation of Base-Isolated Structures |
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Sarun Chimamphant and Kazuhiko Kasai |
Paper: | pp. 655-666 | ||
Analysis of Radio Wave Propagation in an Urban Environment and its Application to Initial Disaster Response Support |
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Youhei Kawamura, Hyongdoo Jang, Markus Wagner, Hajime Nobuhara, Ashraf M. Dewan, Bert Veenendaal, and Itaru Kitahara |
Paper: | pp. 667-677 | ||
Ground Motion Estimation Using Front Site Wave Form Data Based on RVM for Earthquake Early Warning |
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Yincheng Yang and Masato Motosaka |
Paper: | pp. 678-686 | ||
Hazard Perception and Anchoring: A Comparison of the Three Models Explaining the Anchoring Effect |
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Kazuhisa Nagaya and Kazuya Nakayachi |
Paper: | pp. 687-692 | ||
Voluntary Isolation After the Disaster: The Loss of Community and Family in the Super Aged Society in Japan |
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Kanako Sasaki and Miyako Sakurai |
No.3
(Jun)
Special Issue on Adaptation Measures for Disasters due to Climate Change
Special Issue on Adaptation Measures for Disasters due to Climate Change
Editorial: | pp. 403-402 | |
Adaptation Measures for Disasters due to Climate Change |
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Toshimitsu Komatsu | ||
An increase in natural hazards due to global warming has broadened the gap between natural hazards and disaster prevention. This gap has raised the possibility that unexpected major disasters occur. As chances of a natural hazard grow, appropriate and efficient adaptation is considered as a last resort for lessening disaster. In water-related disasters such as floods and debris flows, individual disaster sites have specific thresholds (limits). When a natural hazard exceeds this threshold, a serious disaster strikes us. On the contrary when it is under the limit, disaster damage is kept to be small. Flood disasters and landslides have the side of gall or nothing.h This is a characteristic of water-related disasters. Climate change is causing natural hazards to exceed this threshold easily. This makes resilient proactive adaptation very important in disaster prevention. Specific adaptation measures developed hereafter must cope with serious water and sediment disasters throughout mountainous regions, rivers, urban areas, and coastal areas that are assumed to be influenced by global warming. The Journal of Disaster Research has planned a special issue on the adaptation measures for disasters due to climate change. Having taken part in field surveys, computer simulations, and laboratory experiments and finding adaptation measures worth studying more deeply, I decided to contribute to this special issue as a Guest Editor. All of its 11 papers have been peer-reviewed. The broad topics covered range from floods, landslides, and storm surges to adaptation to the human being society. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to the contributors and reviewers involved in producing these articles, especially to Dr. Hideo Oshikawa, Assistant Professor of the Department of Urban and Environment Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan, for his great support. I look forward with great anticipation to feedback from readers regarding these articles. |
Paper: | pp. 404-419 | ||
Challenges of Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Policy for Disaster Risk Reduction – Implications from Framing Gap Among Stakeholders and the General Public – |
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Kenshi Baba and Mitsuru Tanaka |
Paper: | pp. 420-428 | ||
Analysis of Ideal Directions of Climate Change Adaptation and Problems in Implementing Them for Local Japanese Governments |
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Nobuo Shirai and Mitsuru Tanaka |
Paper: | pp. 429-435 | ||
Meteorological Characteristics of Local Heavy Rainfall in the Fukuoka Plain |
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Yukiko Hisada, Yuji Sugihara, and Nobuhiro Matsunaga |
Paper: | pp. 436-447 | ||
Numerical Experiments on Spatially Averaged Precipitation in Heavy Rainfall Event Using the WRF Model |
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Yuji Sugihara, Sho Imagama, Nobuhiro Matsunaga, and Yukiko Hisada |
Paper: | pp. 448-456 | ||
Bias Correction in Typhoon and Storm Surge Projection Considering Characteristics of Global Climate Model MRI-AGCM3.2S |
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Noriaki Hashimoto, Yukihiro Kinashi, Tomoko Kawashima, Masaki Yokota, Masaru Yamashiro, and Mitsuyoshi Kodama |
Paper: | pp. 457-466 | ||
Evaluation of Inhibitory Effect by Adaptation Measures for Red Soil Runoff from Farmland due to Heavy Rainfall |
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Noriyuki Yasufuku, Kohei Araki, Kiyoshi Omine, Kenichiro Okumura, and Kohei Iwami |
Paper: | pp. 467-474 | ||
An Experimental Study on Flood Control Capability of Dry Dams Constructed in a Series |
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Hideo Oshikawa, Yuka Mito, and Toshimitsu Komatsu |
Paper: | pp. 475-485 | ||
Flood Control Mechanism of Multiple Dams Constructed in a Series Based on Cascade Method |
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Hideo Oshikawa and Toshimitsu Komatsu |
Paper: | pp. 486-494 | ||
Growth of Mangrove Forests and the Influence on Flood Disaster at Amami Oshima Island, Japan |
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Akira Tai, Akihiro Hashimoto, Takuya Oba, Kazuki Kawai, Kazuaki Otsuki, Hiromitsu Nagasaka, and Tomonori Saita |
Paper: | pp. 495-502 | ||
Clarification and Application of Inundation Processes in Basins with Insufficient Observation Devices Installed |
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Akihiro Hashimoto, Akira Tai, and Toshimitsu Komatsu |
Paper: | pp. 503-511 | ||
Compound Strategy Forward to Compound Disaster Mitigation: Lessons from Hsiaolin Village, Typhoon Morakot 2009 |
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Wen-Chi Lai, Yuan-Jung Tsai, and Chjeng-Lun Shieh |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 513-526 | ||
Applying Risk Analysis to the Disaster Impact of Extreme Typhoon Events Under Climate Change |
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Hsin-Chi Li, Shiao-Ping Wei, Chao-Tzuen Cheng, Jun-Jih Liou, Yung-Ming Chen, and Keh-Chia Yeh |
Paper: | pp. 527-534 | ||
Finite Element Reliability Analysis of Steel Containment Vessels with Corrosion Damage |
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Xiaolei Wang and Dagang Lu |
Paper: | pp. 535-550 | ||
Development of Science-Based Decision Support System for Evaluating the Safety of Evacuation Facilities in Case of Torrential Rains |
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Hidetomo Miyake, Haruo Hayashi, Shingo Suzuki, and Takahiro Nishino |
Paper: | pp. 551-557 | ||
Brief Report of Shaking Table Test on Masonry Building Strengthened with Ferrocement Layers |
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Teddy Boen, Hiroshi Imai, Febrin Ismail, Toshikazu Hanazato, and Lenny |
No.2
(Apr)
Selected Papers from TIEMS Annual Conference in Niigata
Abstracts of presentations at TIEMS 2014
Selected Papers from TIEMS Annual Conference in Niigata
Editorial: | pp. 187-188 | |
Selected Papers from TIEMS Annual Conference in Niigata |
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Keiko Tamura and Haruo Hayashi | ||
TIEMS – The International Emergency Society founded in 1993 – is a global forum for education, training, certification and policy in emergency and disaster management. TIEMS is dedicated to developing a safer world by bringing the benefits of modern emergency management tools, techniques and good industry practice. The Japan Chapter of TIEMS was established in 2011 when Japan members agreed on the great worth of the Society’s mission. The Japan Chapter organized the Oct. 20-23, 2014, TIEMS Annual Conference in Niigata. Niigata was chosen because the year 2014 had a special meaning in the history of disasters in Japan. That is, the memorials of four major disasters had memorial anniversaries in that year – the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Niigata Earthquake, the 40th anniversary of the 1974 Niigata Yakeyama Volcano eruption, and the 10th anniversaries of the 2004 Niigata-Fukushima flood and Niigata-Chuetsu earthquake. The event brought over 1,000 domestic and international participants together to discuss risk management and resilience against disasters. The event also provided many opportunities for participants to share their scientific knowledge learn about the lessons from past experience of practitioners in the disaster management field and view the industry exhibition emerging to a wide variety of experience in disaster response. With so many experts and practitioners willing to make presentations at the Conference, the JDR has brought together selected 17 papers and other output from them. My colleagues and I am honored to make these TIEMS 2014 achievements known to the broadest possible audience, and we are assured that this will create many fruitful outcomes for our reading audience. |
Paper: | pp. 189-195 | ||
Developing a Web-Based Platform to Share Disaster Risk Reduction Technology |
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Young-Jai Lee |
Paper: | pp. 196-203 | ||
Comparison Between the Life Recovery Processes After the Mid-Niigata Earthquake and the Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake – Results of a Random Sampled Social Survey Using the Life Recovery Calendar and GIS-Based Spatiotemporal Analysis |
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Reo Kimura, Munenari Inoguchi, Keiko Tamura, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 204-209 | ||
Area Business Continuity Management, A New Approach to Sustainable Local Economy |
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H. Baba, T. Watanabe, K. Miyata, and H. Matsumoto |
Paper: | pp. 210-216 | ||
Attempt to Typify Disaster Educational Programs – Case Study of the Disaster Management Education Challenge Plan |
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Kota Tomoyasu, Reo Kimura, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 217-224 | ||
Development of Web-Based Tabletop Emergency Earthquake Exercise System |
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Bojia Zhou, Gang Sun, Xiaoyong Zhang, Jianhua Xu, Junyan Lai, Xiaoxia Du, Masafumi Hosokawa, Haruo Hayashi, Reo Kimura, and Yukihisa Sakurada |
Paper: | pp. 225-230 | ||
Integration of GIS with Remote Sensing and GPS for Disaster Mitigation |
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Sikander Nawaz Khan |
Paper: | pp. 231-237 | ||
Dynamic Simulation Research of Overburden Strata Failure Characteristics and Stress Dependence of Metal Mine |
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Kang Zhao, Zhongqun Guo, and Youzhi Zhang |
Paper: | pp. 238-245 | ||
Current Issues Regarding the Incident Command System in the Philippines |
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Miho Ohara and Hisaya Sawano |
Paper: | pp. 246-251 | ||
Manage Everything or Anything? Possible Ways Towards Generic Emergency Management Capabilities |
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Jonas Borell |
Paper: | pp. 252-262 | ||
A Study on the Practical Ways of Implementing a Street-Wide BCP Exercise in the Banking Industry |
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Yasutake Sayanagi and Kenji Watanabe |
Paper: | pp. 263-269 | ||
Development of NERSS Training Program for Earthquake Emergency Response Capacity Building of Local Governments |
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Junyan Lai, Lu Ding, Yuan Zhang, Weimin Wu, Haruo Hayashi, Reo Kimura, Masafumi Hosokawa, and Yukihisa Sakurada |
Paper: | pp. 270-275 | ||
Blackout 2014 Exercise – Prague, the Capital of the Czech Republic |
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Tomas Hudecek, Josef Juránek, and Jaroslav Pejcoch |
Paper: | pp. 276-287 | ||
Comparative Analysis of Earthquake Emergency Response in China and Japan Based on Timeline: 311 Earthquake vs 512 Earthquake |
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Xiaoxia Du, Jun Zhang, Jianhua Xu, Zhuan He, Junyan Lai, Yigang Li, Reo Kimura, Haruo Hayashi, Masafumi Hosokawa, and Yukihisa Sakurada |
Paper: | pp. 288-298 | ||
Local People’s Responses to Flood Disasters in Flood Prone Areas of Northeast Bangladesh |
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Naoki Yamashita and Terunori Ohmoto |
Paper: | pp. 299-307 | ||
Current Relocation Practices Targeting Disaster Prone Communities in Developing Countries: Case Study San Francisco Libre, Nicaragua |
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Judith Cuadra, Janet Dilling, Ralph Brower, and Malaika Samples |
Paper: | pp. 308-318 | ||
Understanding Flood Risks for Better Planning and Resilience: Novel Stochastic Models and Methods for South-East Asia |
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Julien Oliver, Ole Larsen, Mads Rasmussen, Erickson Lanuza, and Avinash Chakravarthy |
Note: | pp. 319-325 | ||
The Resilient Smart City (An Proposal) |
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Yukio Fujinawa, Ryoichi Kouda, and Yoichi Noda |
Abstracts of presentations at TIEMS 2014
Appendix: | pp. 327-362 | ||
Abstracts of presentations at TIEMS 2014 Annual Conference |
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Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 363-372 | ||
Cross-Organizational Information Sharing and Coordination in Disaster Response: The Case of the 2008 Wenchuan China Earthquake |
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Enyan Wang, Dequan Zheng, and Xiangyang Li |
Paper: | pp. 373-385 | ||
Improvement of Reception and Transmission Performance on Early Warning System for Multi Country with QZSS Augmentation Signal |
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Daisuke Iwaizumi, Shota Iino, Hiroki Satoh, Mitsuaki Takaishi, Naoki Iso, and Naohiko Kohtake |
No.1
(Feb)
Special Issue on Enhancement of Earthquake and Volcano Monitoring and Effective Utilization of Disaster Mitigation Information in the Philippines
Special Issue on Enhancement of Earthquake and Volcano Monitoring and Effective Utilization of Disaster Mitigation Information in the Philippines
Editorial: | pp. 5-7 | |
Enhancement of Earthquake and Volcano Monitoring and Effective Utilization of Disaster Mitigation Information in the Philippines |
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Hiroshi Inoue and Renato U. Solidum, Jr. | ||
This special issue of JDR features 18 papers and reports on an international 2010 to 2015 cooperative project entitled gEnhancement of Earthquake and Volcano Monitoring and Effective Utilization of Disaster Mitigation Information in the Philippines.h This project is being conducted under the SATREPS program (Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development), cosponsored by the JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) and JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency). The Philippines is one of the worldfs most earthquake and volcano disaster-prone countries because it is located along the active boundary between the Philippine Sea Plate and Eurasian Plate. Collisions by the two plates generate plate subductions and crustal stress that generates earthquakes and volcanic activities on the archipelago. The Philippines has experienced numerous disastrous earthquakes, the most recent being the 1990 M7.8 Luzon earthquake, which killed over 1,000 local residents. A damaging earthquake also occurred during this 5-year project, in October 2013, on Bohol Island, causing about 200 deaths when houses and other buildings collapsed. Volcanoes are another major killer in the Philippines. The largest in the last century was when the Taal volcano erupted in 1911, killing 1,300 by a base surge. The 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption is known as the largest volcanic event in the 20th century. The Mayon volcano is also known to be a beautiful but dangerous volcano that frequently erupts, causing lahars ? steaming moving fluid masses of volcanic debris and water ? that damaged villages at the foot of the mountain. The PHIVOLCS (Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology), a governmental agency mandated to monitor earthquakes and volcanoes, provides earthquake and volcano information and alerts to the public. It also conducts research on the mechanisms behind such natural phenomena and on evaluating such hazards and risks. The PHIVOLCSfs other mission is educating people and society on being prepared for disasters. Earthquake and volcano bulletins and alerts, research output, and ...<more> |
Survey Report: | pp. 8-17 | ||
Performance of Broadband Seismic Network of the Philippines |
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Arnaldo A. Melosantos, Karl Vincent C. Soriano, Ponzch Colleen M. Alcones, Jose U. Pantig, Jun D. Bonita, Ishmael C. Narag, Hiroyuki Kumagai, and Hiroshi Inoue |
Paper: | pp. 18-24 | ||
Regional Moment Tensor Analysis in the Philippines: CMT Solutions in 2012–2013 |
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Jun D. Bonita, Hiroyuki Kumagai, and Masaru Nakano |
Paper: | pp. 25-34 | ||
Development and Operation of a Regional Moment Tensor Analysis System in the Philippines: Contributions to the Understanding of Recent Damaging Earthquakes |
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Baby Jane T. Punongbayan, Hiroyuki Kumagai, Nelson Pulido, Jun D. Bonita, Masaru Nakano, Tadashi Yamashina, Yuta Maeda, Hiroshi Inoue, Arnaldo A. Melosantos, Melquiades F. Figueroa, Ponczh Colleen M. Alcones, Karl Vincent C. Soriano, Ishmael C. Narag, and Renato U. Solidum, Jr. |
Survey Report: | pp. 35-42 | ||
Development of Seismic Intensity Meter for the Philippines |
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Hiroshi Inoue, Zhengying Fan, Melchor Lasala, Robert Tiglao, Bartolome Bautista, Debbie Rivera, and Ishmael Narag |
Paper: | pp. 43-50 | ||
Establishment of Earthquake Intensity Meter Network in the Philippines |
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Melchor Lasala, Hiroshi Inoue, Roberto Tiglao, Zhengying Fan, Bartolome Bautista, and Ishmael Narag |
Survey Report: | pp. 51-58 | ||
Building a Tsunami Simulation Database for the Tsunami Warning System in the Philippines |
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Yohko Igarashi, Toshihiro Ueno, Kenji Nakata, Vilma C. Hernandez-Grennan, Joan L. Cruz-Salcedo, Ishmael C. Narag, Bartolome C. Bautista, and Takeshi Koizumi |
Paper: | pp. 59-66 | ||
Plate Convergence and Block Motions in Mindanao Island, Philippine as Derived from Campaign GPS Observations |
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Takahiro Ohkura, Takao Tabei, Fumiaki Kimata, Teresito C. Bacolcol, Yasuhiko Nakamura, Artemio C. Luis, Jr., Alfie Pelicano, Robinson Jorgio, Milo Tabigue, Magdalino Abrahan, Eleazar Jorgio, and Endra Gunawan |
Paper: | pp. 67-73 | ||
Continuous GPS Observations on Mindanao |
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Mikio Tobita, Hisashi Suito, Tomokazu Kobayashi, Satoshi Kawamoto, Masayuki Yamanaka, Akira Suzuki, Toshiharu Enya, Masaki Honda, Tetsuro Imakiire, Artemio Luis, Alfie Pelicano, Teresito Bacolcol, and Takahiro Ohkura |
Paper: | pp. 74-82 | ||
Fault Distribution, Segmentation and Earthquake Generation Potential of the Philippine Fault in Eastern Mindanao, Philippines |
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Jeffrey S. Perez, Hiroyuki Tsutsumi, Mabelline T. Cahulogan, Desiderio P. Cabanlit, Ma. Isabel T. Abigania, and Takashi Nakata |
Paper: | pp. 83-90 | ||
Coseismic Displacement and Recurrence Interval of the 1973 Ragay Gulf Earthquake, Southern Luzon, Philippines |
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Hiroyuki Tsutsumi, Jeffrey S. Perez, Jaime U. Marjes, Kathleen L. Papiona, and Noelynna T. Ramos |
Paper: | pp. 91-98 | ||
Geometry and Structure of the Philippine Fault in Ragay Gulf, Southern Luzon |
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Hirotake Yasuda, Teresito Bacolcol, Arturo Daag, Ericson Bariso, Emmanuelle Mitiam, Jaime Marjes, and Takashi Nakata |
Survey Report: | pp. 99-105 | ||
Electromagnetic Observations at Taal Volcano |
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Paul Karson Alanis, Yoichi Sasai, and Toshiyasu Nagao |
Paper: | pp. 106-112 | ||
Ground Deformation of Mayon Volcano Revealed by GPS Campaign Survey |
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Akimichi Takagi, Kenji Fujiwara, Takahiro Ohkura, Artemio C. Luis, Jr., Alejo V. Baloloy, Shinobu Ando, Eduardo Laguerta, and Ma. Antonia V. Bornas |
Paper: | pp. 113-120 | ||
A Full-Scale Shaking Table Test on Philippine Concrete Hollow Blocks (CHB) Masonry Houses |
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Hiroshi Imai, Chikahiro Minowa, Angelito G. Lanuza, Henremagne C. Penarubia, Ishmael C. Narag, Renato U. Soridum, Jr., Kenji Okazaki, Tatsuo Narafu, Toshikazu Hanazato, and Hiroshi Inoue |
Paper: | pp. 121-128 | ||
Development of Practical Tools for Vulnerability and Safety Evaluation of Houses in the Philippines |
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Hiroshi Imai, Akitoshi Nishimura, Angelito G. Lanuza, Henremagne C. Penarubia, Ronald S. Ison, Miriam L. Tamayo, Ishmael C. Narag, Renato U. Soridum, Jr., Hiroshi Inoue, Junzo Sakuma, and Kenji Okazaki |
Survey Report: | pp. 129-134 | ||
Strategy for Dissemination of Practical Tools for Evaluation of Vulnerability and Safety of Houses in the Philippines |
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Joan L. Cruz-Salcedo, Ma. Mylene L. Martinez-Villegas, Ester B. Garrido, Angelito G. Lanuza, Hiroshi Imai, Henremagne C. Penarubia, Hiroshi Inoue, and Renato U. Solidum, Jr. |
Paper: | pp. 135-144 | ||
Filipinos in Japan: Narratives of Experience from the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami |
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Ma. Mylene Martinez-Villegas, Renato U. Solidum, Jr., Hiroshi Inoue, Hiroshi Imai, Angelito G. Lanuza, Henremagne C. Penarubia, Melcario Pagtalunan, Ma. Lynn P. Melosantos, Joan L. Cruz-Salcedo, Ishmael C. Narag, Melchor Lasala, Ma. Antonia V. Bornas, Perla J. Delos Reyes, and Bartolome Bautista |
Survey Report: | pp. 145-149 | ||
Developing Manga-Style Tsunami Information Materials Based on the March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Ma. Mylene Martinez-Villegas, Lucille Rose Del Monte, Renato U. Solidum, Jr., John Paul Fallarme, Monique Realis, Melcario Pagtalunan, and Eumelia Belo |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 151-162 | ||
Analysis of the Banks’ Initial Reactions with the 9/11 and 3/11 |
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Yasutake Sayanagi and Kenji Watanabe |
Paper: | pp. 163-170 | ||
Organizational Promoting Factors for SME BCP (2) |
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Shinichi Okabe and Akio Nagahira |
Vol.9 (2014)
No.6
(Dec)
Special Issue on Enhancement of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru (II)
Special Issue on Enhancement of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru (II)
Editorial: | p. 915 | |
Enhancement of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru (II) |
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Fumio Yamazaki, Carlos Zavala, and Miguel Estrada | ||
With the greatest pleasure, we present the second special issue of the Journal of Disaster Research (JDR), entitled Enhancement of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru. This follows the first special issue on the same theme. These special issues contain 36 articles, 15 in the first and 21 in the second. They summarize research output from the SATREPS Peru project. SATREPS is an international research program sponsored by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). As a SATREPS project on natural disaster mitigation, our 5-year Peru project began in March 2010 with the purpose of enhancing and implementing earthquake and tsunami disaster-mitigation technology in Peru. The joint research project provides good opportunities for Peruvian and Japanese researchers and engineers to work together exchanging opinions on their common goal of reducing loss from earthquakes and tsunamis. Within the project period, CISMID was designated as a government agency in charge of disaster-mitigation activities. Project outcomes have been introduced in national design codes and in guidelines on earthquake and tsunami risk evaluation in Peru. Our project has drawn great attention among members of Peruvian society. It has attracted hundreds of participants and scores of mass media through public seminars and symposia. We expect the project to be sustained through public awareness and dissemination activities by Peruvian organizations. We hope this special issue will provide useful information to seismic-prone Asia-Pacific countries, especially Latin America. In closing, we sincerely thank the contributors and reviewers who have done so much to make the articles in this special issue both interesting and valuable. |
Review: | pp. 916-924 | ||
Summary Report of the SATREPS Project on Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru |
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Fumio Yamazaki, Carlos Zavala, Shoichi Nakai, Shunichi Koshimura, Taiki Saito, Saburoh Midorikawa, Zenon Aguilar, Miguel Estrada, and Alberto Bisbal |
Paper: | pp. 925-930 | ||
Estimation of a Source Model and Strong Motion Simulation for Tacna City, South Peru |
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Nelson Pulido, Shoichi Nakai, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Diana Calderon, Zenon Aguilar, and Toru Sekiguchi |
Paper: | pp. 931-938 | ||
Estimation of S-Wave Velocity Profiles at Lima City, Peru Using Microtremor Arrays |
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Selene Quispe, Kosuke Chimoto, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Hernando Tavera, Fernando Lazares, and Zenon Aguilar |
Paper: | pp. 939-945 | ||
Development of a Seismic Microzoning Map for Lima City and Callao, Peru |
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Diana Calderon, Zenon Aguilar, Fernando Lazares, Silvia Alarcon, and Selene Quispe |
Paper: | pp. 946-953 | ||
Analysis of Topographic Effects in Dynamic Response of a Typical Rocky Populated Slope in Lima, Peru |
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Carlos Gonzales, Shoichi Nakai, Toru Sekiguchi, Diana Calderon, Zenon Aguilar, and Fernando Lazares |
Paper: | pp. 954-960 | ||
Tsunami Waveform Inversion of the 2007 Peru (Mw8.1) Earthquake |
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Cesar Jimenez, Nabilt Moggiano, Erick Mas, Bruno Adriano, Yushiro Fujii, and Shunichi Koshimura |
Paper: | pp. 961-967 | ||
Simulation of Tsunami Inundation in Central Peru from Future Megathrust Earthquake Scenarios |
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Erick Mas, Bruno Adriano, Nelson Pulido, Cesar Jimenez, and Shunichi Koshimura |
Paper: | pp. 968-975 | ||
Scenarios of Earthquake and Tsunami Damage Probability in Callao Region, Peru Using Tsunami Fragility Functions |
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Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura, Miguel Estrada, and Cesar Jimenez |
Paper: | pp. 976-983 | ||
Evaluation of Tsunami Wave Loads Acting on Walls of Confined-Masonry-Brick and Concrete-Block Houses |
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Gaku Shoji, Hirofumi Shimizu, Shunichi Koshimura, Miguel Estrada, and Cesar Jimenez |
Paper: | pp. 984-992 | ||
Strength and Deformation of Confined Brick Masonry Walls Subjected to Lateral Forces – Review of Existing Test Data in Japan and Peru – |
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Shunsuke Sugano, Taiki Saito, Carlos Zavala, and Lourdes Cardenas |
Paper: | pp. 993-1000 | ||
Implementation of Database of Masonry Walls Test – Review of Existing Test Data in Peru |
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Lourdes Cardenas, Roy Reyna, Lucio Estacio, and Carlos Zavala |
Paper: | pp. 1001-1007 | ||
Implementation of Building Monitoring Network in Peru Under SATREPS Project |
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Miguel Diaz, Patricia Gibu, Lucio Estacio, and Ricardo Proano |
Paper: | pp. 1008-1014 | ||
Basic Study on Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls Without Boundary Columns Retrofitted by Carbon Fiber Sheets |
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Tomoya Matsui, Taiki Saito, and Roy Reyna |
Paper: | pp. 1015-1020 | ||
Current State of Masonry Properties Material on Emerging Zones in Lima City |
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Luis Lavado, Jenny Taira, and Jorge Gallardo |
Paper: | pp. 1021-1025 | ||
Comparison of Behaviors of Non-Engineered Masonry Tubular Block Walls and Solid Engineered Walls |
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Carlos Zavala, Luis Lavado, Jenny Taira, Lourdes Cardenas, and Miguel Diaz |
Paper: | pp. 1026-1031 | ||
Assessment of Seismic Performance of High-Rise Thin RC Wall Buildings in Lima, Peru Using Fragility Functions |
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Luis G. Quiroz and Yoshihisa Maruyama |
Paper: | pp. 1032-1041 | ||
Development of Building Inventory Data and Earthquake Damage Estimation in Lima, Peru for Future Earthquakes |
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Masashi Matsuoka, Shun Mito, Saburoh Midorikawa, Hiroyuki Miura, Luis G. Quiroz, Yoshihisa Maruyama, and Miguel Estrada |
Paper: | pp. 1042-1049 | ||
Development of Building Height Data in Peru from High-Resolution SAR Imagery |
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Wen Liu, Fumio Yamazaki, Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas, and Shunichi Koshimura |
Paper: | pp. 1050-1058 | ||
Evaluation of Seismic Vulnerability of Buildings Based on Damage Survey Data from the 2007 Pisco, Peru Earthquake |
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Shizuko Matsuzaki, Nelson Pulido, Yoshihisa Maruyama, Miguel Estrada, Carlos Zavala, and Fumio Yamazaki |
Paper: | pp. 1059-1068 | ||
Post-Disaster Urban Recovery Monitoring in Pisco After the 2007 Peru Earthquake Using Satellite Image |
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Tomoyo Hoshi, Osamu Murao, Kunihiko Yoshino, Fumio Yamazaki, and Miguel Estrada |
Paper: | pp. 1069-1077 | ||
A Simulation Model for Forecasting Urban Vulnerability to Earthquake Disasters in Lima, Peru: “LIMA-UVEQ” |
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Hideki Kaji, Osamu Murao, Masaki Fujioka, Hidehiko Kanegae, Fumio Yamazaki, Miguel Estrada, and Alberto Bisbal |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 1079-1087 | ||
Beneficial Effects of Learning with Game-Book on Education for Disaster Prevention in Children |
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Rui Nouchi and Motoaki Sugiura |
Survey Report: | pp. 1088-1100 | ||
Flood Disaster in the Yura River in 2004 and 2013 |
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Shigeru Kawai and Kazuo Ashida |
No.5
(Oct)
Special Issue on J-GRID (Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Disease)
Special Issue on J-GRID (Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Disease)
Editorial: | pp. 765-767 | |
J-GRID (Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Disease) |
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Sumio Shinoda | ||
In the developed countries including Japan, malignant tumor (cancer), heart disease and cerebral apoplexy are major causes of death, but infectious diseases still responsible for high mortality in the developing countries, especially for children less than 5 years of age. World Health Statistics published byWHO indicates a high percentage of mortality from infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, diarrhea, measles, malaria and pneumonia in children of South and Southeast Asian and African countries (World Health Statistics 2014,World Health Organization). Many of these infectious diseases have the potential for borderless transmission and invasion to Japan. Given this situation, Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) introduced Phase I of a program “Founding Research Centers for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases,” running from fiscal 2005 to 2009 and involving 8 Japanese universities and 2 Japanese research centers. The program was established to: 1) Create of a domestic research structure to promote the accumulation of fundamental knowledge about infectious diseases, 2) Set up 13 overseas research collaboration centers in 8 countries at high risk of emerging and reemerging infections, Japanese researchers are stationed at these centers, where they conduct research in partnership with overseas instructors, 3) Develop a network among domestic and overseas research centers, 4) Develop human resources. The program, supervised by MEXT, and managed by the RIKEN Center of the Research Network for Infectious Diseases (Riken CRNID). Dr. Yoshiyuki Nagai, Program Director (PD), heads CRNID and is organizing the program. Phase II of the program was set up as the Japan Initiative for the Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J-GRID) and was established for fiscal 2010-2014. Participating universities, institutes and countries in J-GRID are as follows: Hokkaido University : Zambia Tohoku University : Philippines The University of Tokyo : ...<more> |
Review: | pp. 768-773 | ||
About the Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J-GRID) – An Overview |
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Yoshiyuki Nagai |
Review: | pp. 774-783 | ||
Activity of Collaborative Research Center of Okayama University for Infectious Disease in India |
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Sumio Shinoda, Daisuke Imamura, Tamaki Mizuno, and Shin-ichi Miyoshi |
Review: | pp. 784-792 | ||
Japan-Thailand Collaboration Research on Infectious Diseases: Promotion and Hurdles |
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Shigeyuki Hamada, Naokazu Takeda, and Taroh Kinoshita |
Review: | pp. 793-800 | ||
Collaboration with China |
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Aikichi Iwamoto, Zene Matsuda, Yoshihiro Kitamura, Takaomi Ishida, Kiyoko Iwatsuki-Horimoto, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka |
Review: | pp. 801-806 | ||
The Outline of the “Collaborative Study on Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases in Vietnam, Enhancement of Research Capacity” |
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Tetsu Yamashiro |
Review: | pp. 807-812 | ||
Kenya Research Station and its Research Activities |
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Yoshio Ichinose |
Review: | pp. 813-817 | ||
Joint Research Project on Infectious Diseases in West-African Subregion |
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Eiji Ido, Takashi Suzuki, William K. Ampofo, Irene Ayi, Shoji Yamaoka, Kwadwo A. Koram, and Nobuo Ohta |
Review: | pp. 818-822 | ||
Research Activities of Hokudai Center for Zoonosis Control in Zambia |
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Hideaki Higashi and Hiroshi Kida |
Review: | pp. 823-827 | ||
Research Activities and Responding to Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda): Tohoku-RITM Collaborating Research Center in the Philippines |
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Mariko Saito, Mayuko Saito, Tadatsugu Imamura, Taro Kamigaki, Socorro P. Lupisan, and Hitoshi Oshitani |
Review: | pp. 828-835 | ||
Indonesia-Kobe University Collaborative Research Center for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases (CRC-ERID) J-GRID (Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases) |
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Toshiro Shirakawa, Kazufumi Shimizu, Takako Utsumi, Masanori Kameoka, Hak Hotta, and Yoshitake Hayashi |
Topic: | pp. 836-838 | ||
Efforts Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria and Bacteremia in Vietnam |
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Nozomi Takeshita, Norio Ohmagari, Teruo Kirikae, and Shinichi Oka |
Survey Report: | pp. 839-841 | ||
Swine Influenza Surveillance in the Southeast Asia |
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Takehiko Saito, Nobuhiro Takemae, Haruka Abe, and Yuko Uchida |
Review: | pp. 842-847 | ||
Influenza Project in Myanmar |
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Reiko Saito, Yadanar Kyaw, Yi Yi Myint, Clyde Dapat,Go Hasegawa, and Makoto Naito |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 849-857 | ||
Organizational Promoting Factors for SME BCP |
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Shinichi Okabe and Akio Nagahira |
Paper: | pp. 858-869 | ||
Fundamental Analysis for Flood Risk Management in the Selected River Basins of Southeast Asia |
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Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Toshio Okazumi, Mamoru Miyamoto, Seishi Nabesaka, Shigenobu Tanaka, and Ai Sugiura |
Paper: | pp. 870-878 | ||
Educational Merits of Lecturing and Discussion Methods in Teaching Disaster Prevention: Toward Improvement of Students’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior in Merapi Volcano Area Primary Schools |
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Tuswadi and Takehiro Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 879-886 | ||
Lessons Learnt from Communication for Disaster Preparedness: A Study on Six Survivors from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011 |
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Md. Faiz Shah and Parves Sultan |
Paper: | pp. 887-900 | ||
A Quantitative Estimate of Vulnerable People and Evaluation of Flood Evacuation Policy |
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Karina Vink, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, and Kelly M. Kibler |
No.sp
(Sep)
Special Issue on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster: Part III – Risk Communication –
Special Issue on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster: Part III – Risk Communication –
Editorial: | p. 589 | |
the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster: Part III – Risk Communication – |
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Hideaki Karaki | ||
Following its two special issues on the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, the Journal of Disaster Research is now publishing this third issue focusing on risk communication. The earthquake and tsunami killed over 20,000 people, destroyed houses, farmlands, and communities, and led to a large amount of radioactive materials being released from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. These materials contaminated the environment and foods and forced almost 160,000 people to be evacuated from the highly contaminated district. Ruined buildings are now being reconstructed and adversely affected farmland is being decontaminated. The victims remained concerned, however, about their future, especially those exposed to even very low-level radiation. Chernobyl’s Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts, a landmark report released by the Chernobyl Forum in 2005, assessed the 20-year impact of the nuclear explosion at the Chernobyl power plant in 1986. One of its important findings was that 4,000 cases of thyroid cancer, mainly in children, had occurred but that except for nine deaths, all of the children recovered and that there was no evidence of any increase in the incidence of leukemia or cancer among affected residents. Such facts as these are not generally known, however, many health conditions have been erroneously attributed to radiation exposure and myths and misperceptions have persisted about the threat of radiation, resulting in a “paralyzing fatalism” among residents of affected areas. The Chernobyl report recommends developing new and innovative ways of risk communication to increase knowledge about the actual health effects of radiation and providing accurate information on the incident’s physical and mental health consequences. Over the last three years, experts in risk communication in Japan have continued working to disseminate scientifically accurate information about radiation. This issue discusses the current status and questions related to the incident. |
Review: | pp. 592-597 | ||
Short History of Risk Communication in Japan |
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Tomio Kinoshita |
Review: | pp. 598-602 | ||
Risk Communication in the Food Field |
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Hideaki Karaki |
Review: | pp. 603-607 | ||
Risk Communication in Chemical Sector in Connection to the Role of Risk Assessment |
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Akihiro Tokai and Naoya Kojima |
Review: | pp. 608-618 | ||
Risk Communication in the Field of Radiation |
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Reiko Kanda |
Review: | pp. 619-627 | ||
Risk Communication in Japan Concerning Future of Nuclear Technology |
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Masaharu Kitamura |
Review: | pp. 628-637 | ||
Interdisciplinary Framework of Risk Communication as an Integral Part of Environmental Risk Analysis in Postindustrial Risk Society: Three Case Studies of the 1999 Amendment of Air Pollution Control Law, Dioxins, and the EMF Risks |
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Saburo Ikeda |
Review: | pp. 638-643 | ||
Toward Mitigating Actions: Risk Communication Regarding Natural Disaster |
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Kazuya Nakayachi |
Review: | pp. 644-652 | ||
Verbal Expressions of Risk Communication: A Case Study After the 3.11 Crisis |
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Shinichiro Okamoto and Toshiko Kikkawa |
Paper: | pp. 653-664 | ||
An Analysis of International Assistance Based on Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Atsushi Koresawa |
Paper: | pp. 665-672 | ||
Disaster Experience and Participatory Energy Governance in Post-Disaster Japan: A Survey of Citizen Willingness to Participate in Nuclear and Energy Deliberations |
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Hidenori Nakamura |
Paper: | pp. 673-689 | ||
Current Status and Issues of Life Recovery Process Three Years After the Great East Japan Earthquake Questionnaire Based on Subjective Estimate of Victims Using Life Recovery Calendar Method |
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Reo Kimura, Kota Tomoyasu, Yutaka Yajima, Hitomi Mashima, Kensaku Furukawa, Yuki Toda, Kazuaki Watanabe, and Takeo Kawahara |
Paper: | pp. 690-698 | ||
Text Mining Analysis of Radiological Information from Newspapers as Compared with Social Media on the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident |
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Reiko Kanda, Satsuki Tsuji, and Hidenori Yonehara |
Paper: | pp. 699-708 | ||
The Impact of Disasters on Japan’s Inbound Tourism Demand |
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Lihui Wu and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 709-718 | ||
Near-Surface Geophysical Profiling Near Former Location of K-NET Tsukidate Strong Motion Station in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan |
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Mohamed Amrouche, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Kosuke Chimoto, and Yadab P. Dhakal |
Paper: | pp. 719-729 | ||
Tsunami Safe Town Planning with Evacuation Simulation |
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Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Takeshi Kimura, Yoshikazu Minegishi, and Tomonori Sano |
Paper: | pp. 730-742 | ||
Index to Evaluate Tsunami Evacuation Potential and its Validation at Yamada, Iwate Prefecture |
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Yozo Goto |
Survey Report: | pp. 743-751 | ||
Comparative Study of the Post-Tsunami Recovery Plans After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Osamu Murao and Tomoyo Hoshi |
Paper: | pp. 752-756 | ||
Consideration of Public Support to Enhance Private Sector’s Business Continuity Management |
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Takahiro Ono |
No.4
(Aug)
Special Issue on Enhancing Resilience to Climate and Ecosystem Changes in Semi-Arid Africa
Special Issue on Enhancing Resilience to Climate and Ecosystem Changes in Semi-Arid Africa
Editorial: | p. 411 | |
Enhancing Resilience to Climate and Ecosystem Changes in Semi-Arid Africa |
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Kazuhiko Takeuchi and Edwin Akonno Gyasi | ||
In 2011, a collaborative project focused on climate and ecosystem change adaptation and resilience studies in Africa (CECAR-Africa) with Ghana as the focal country, was initiated. The goal was to combine climate change and ecosystem change research, and to use that combination as a basis for building an integrated resilience enhancement strategy as a potential model for semi-arid regions across Sub-Saharan Africa. The Project is being financially supported by the Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS), a collaborative programme of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). CECAR-Africa involves the following leading climate and ecosystems research organizations in Ghana and Japan: The University of Tokyo; Kyoto University; United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS); University of Ghana; Ghana Meteorological Agency; University for Development Studies; and United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNUINRA). CECAR-Africa has been operating fully since 2012, with a focus on three thematic areas, namely: Forecast and assessment of climate change impact on agro-ecosystems (Agro-ecosystem resilience); Risk assessment of extreme weather hazards and development of adaptive resource management methods (Engineering resilience); and Implementing capacity development programs for local communities and professionals (social institutions-technical capacity development) using the assessment results derived from work on the first two themes. This special issue presents major outcomes of the Project so far. The articles featured used various techniques and methods such as field surveys, questionnaires, focal group discussions, land use and cover change analysis, and climate downscaled modelling to investigate the impacts of climate and ecosystem changes on river flows and agriculture, and to assess the local capacity for coping with floods, droughts and disasters, and for enhancing the resilience of farming communities. We are happy to be a...<more> |
Survey Report: | pp. 412-421 | ||
Dynamical Downscaling for Assessment of the Climate in Ghana |
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Masaru Inatsu, Tsubasa Nakayama, Yoshie Maeda, and Hirotaka Matsuda |
Paper: | pp. 422-431 | ||
Downscaled Climate Change Projections for Wa District in the Savanna Zone of Ghana |
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Emmanuel Tachie-Obeng, Bruce Hewitson, Edwin Akonno Gyasi, Mark Kofi Abekoe, and George Owusu |
Paper: | pp. 432-442 | ||
Impact of Climate Change on River Flows in the Black Volta River |
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Nobuhiko Sawai, Kenichiro Kobayashi, Apip, Kaoru Takara, Hirohiko Ishikawa, Muneta Yokomatsu, Subhajyoti Samaddar, Ayilari-Naa Juati, and Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic |
Paper: | pp. 443-451 | ||
Effects of Research and Development Expenditure and Climate Variability on Agricultural Productivity Growth in Ghana |
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Geetha Mohan, Hirotaka Matsuda, Samuel A. Donkoh, Victor Lolig, and Gideon Danso Abbeam |
Paper: | pp. 452-467 | ||
Land Use and Landscape Structural Changes in the Ecoregions of Ghana |
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Effah Kwabena Antwi, John Boakye-Danquah, Stephen Boahen Asabere, Gerald A. B. Yiran, Seyram Kofi Loh, Kwabena Gyekye Awere, Felix K. Abagale, Kwabena Owusu Asubonteng, Emmanuel Morgan Attua, and Alex Barimah Owusu |
Paper: | pp. 468-474 | ||
Dry Spells Occurrence in Tamale, Northern Ghana – Review of Available Information |
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Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Shayibu Abdul-Ghanyu, Bizoola Zinzoola Gandaa, and Felix K. Abagale |
Paper: | pp. 475-483 | ||
Cropping Systems in Some Drought-Prone Communities of the Northern Region of Ghana: Factors Affecting the Introduction of Rice |
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Vincent Kodjo Avornyo, Osamu Ito, Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic, Osamu Saito, and Kazuhiko Takeuchi |
Paper: | pp. 484-500 | ||
Impact of Farm Management Practices and Agricultural Land Use on Soil Organic Carbon Storage Potential in the Savannah Ecological Zone of Northern Ghana |
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John Boakye-Danquah, Effah Kwabena Antwi, Osamu Saito, Mark Kofi Abekoe, and Kazuhiko Takeuchi |
Paper: | pp. 501-515 | ||
Provisioning Ecosystem Services in Rural Savanna Landscapes of Northern Ghana: An Assessment of Supply, Utilization, and Drivers of Change |
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Yaw Agyeman Boafo, Osamu Saito, and Kazuhiko Takeuchi |
Paper: | pp. 516-528 | ||
Farmer-Perceived Effects of Climate Change on Livelihoods in Wa West District, Upper West Region of Ghana |
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Yasuko Kusakari, Kwabena Owusu Asubonteng, Godfred Seidu Jasaw, Frederick Dayour, Togbiga Dzivenu, Victor Lolig, Samuel A. Donkoh, Francis Kwabena Obeng, Bizoola Gandaa, and Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic |
Paper: | pp. 529-541 | ||
Assessing Rural Communities Concerns for Improved Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Northern Ghana |
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Subhajyoti Samaddar, Muneta Yokomatsu, Togbiga Dzivenu, Martin Oteng-Ababio, Mujeeb Rahaman Adams, Frederick Dayour, and Hirohiko Ishikawa |
Paper: | pp. 542-553 | ||
Households’ Coping Strategies in Drought- and Flood-Prone Communities in Northern Ghana |
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Victor Lolig, Samuel A. Donkoh, Francis Kwabena Obeng, Isaac Gershon Kodwo Ansah, Godfred Seidu Jasaw, Yasuko Kusakari, Kwabena Owusu Asubonteng, Bizoola Gandaa, Frederick Dayour, Togbiga Dzivenu, and Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic |
Paper: | pp. 554-562 | ||
Framing Community Resilience Through Mobility and Gender |
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Kei Otsuki, Godfred Seidu Jasaw, and Victor Lolig |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 563-570 | ||
Housing Renovation After the 2011 Thailand Flood in Ayutthaya |
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Titaya Sararit and Tamiyo Kondo |
Paper: | pp. 571-578 | ||
Differences in Subjective Estimation of Risks and Assessment for the Modified Tsunami Warning System by the Japan Meteorological Agency Among University Students Located in Damaged and Non-Damaged Prefectures Around the Period of the 2011 off Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake |
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Erina Gyoba |
No.3
(Jun)
Special Issue on Challenges of Earthquake Forecast Research Illuminated by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake
Special Issue on Challenges of Earthquake Forecast Research Illuminated by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake
Editorial: | p. 247 | |
Challenges of Earthquake Forecast Research Illuminated by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake |
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Naoshi Hirata and Aitaro Kato | ||
The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, hereafter referred to as Tohoku-Oki earthquake, occurring off northeastern Japan’s Pacific coast on March 11, 2011 had a moment magnitude of 9.0 and generated a tsunami responsible for most of the deaths of the event’s 19,000 victims. Identifying scientifically what happened before, on, and after March 11 is one starting point for a discussion on how to reduce casualties and mitigate the impact of such natural disasters. The 14 papers in this special issue cover incidents related to pre-, co- and post-seismic phenomena, including volcanoes. Three papers discuss why and how such a large quake occurred. Three more papers go into the implications of short- and long-term crustal deformations seen in northeastern Japan. Four papers detail short- and long-term phenomena leading to the Tohoku-Oki quake. Two papers discuss real-time tsunami forecasting based on off-shore and on-shore geodetic, seismic and tsunami observation data. The last two papers explore the effects of the 2011 temblor on volcanic phenomena. The magnitude 9.0 produced in the 2011 event is the largest historically recorded in Japan and may not necessarily have been anticipated beforehand, and the generation mechanism behind such a gigantic occurrence is not yet completely understood. Even so, preparations should be made for such earthquakes in other parts of Japan and in other countries. The Nankai trough is an example of areas that require our attention. A national project for observation and study for earthquake prediction is now being integrated into a new program, Earthquake and Volcano Hazards Observation and Research Program (2014-2019). Studies presented in this special issue are also being supported in part by this program. We are certain that readers will find that this special issue will contribute much to our understanding of gigantic earthquakes and at least some of the measure to be taken in preparation for such natural phenomena. Finally, we extend our sincere thanks to all of the contributors and reviewers involved with these articles. |
Paper: | pp. 248-251 | ||
The Largest Earthquakes We Should Prepare for |
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Toru Matsuzawa |
Review: | pp. 252-263 | ||
What Caused the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake? : Effects of Dynamic Weakening |
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Bunichiro Shibazaki and Hiroyuki Noda |
Review: | pp. 264-271 | ||
Modeling Earthquakes Using Fractal Circular Patch Models with Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake |
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Satoshi Ide and Hideo Aochi |
Review: | pp. 272-280 | ||
Review: Source Models of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Long-Term Forecast of Large Earthquakes |
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Kenji Satake and Yushiro Fujii |
Paper: | pp. 281-293 | ||
Radiation and Generation of Short- and Long-Period Ground Motions from the 2011 Off Tohoku, Japan, Mw9.0 Earthquake |
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Takashi Furumura |
Paper: | pp. 294-302 | ||
Pre-, Co-, and Post-Seismic Deformation of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake and its Implication to a Paradox in Short-Term and Long-Term Deformation |
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Takuya Nishimura |
Review: | pp. 303-310 | ||
Precursory Phenomena Possibly Related to the 2011 M9.0 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake |
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Toshiyasu Nagao, Yoshiaki Orihara, and Masashi Kamogawa |
Review: | pp. 311-316 | ||
Slow Slip Transients Before the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake |
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Aitaro Kato |
Review: | pp. 317-329 | ||
Contribution of Slow Earthquake Study for Assessing the Occurrence Potential of Megathrust Earthquakes |
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Kazushige Obara |
Review: | pp. 330-338 | ||
Recent Issues Affecting Forecast of Subduction Zone Great Earthquakes in Japan Through Paleoseismological Study |
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Masanobu Shishikura |
Review: | pp. 339-357 | ||
Review on Near-Field Tsunami Forecasting from Offshore Tsunami Data and Onshore GNSS Data for Tsunami Early Warning |
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Hiroaki Tsushima and Yusaku Ohta |
Paper: | pp. 358-364 | ||
Real-Time Tsunami Inundation Forecast for a Recurrence of 17th Century Great Hokkaido Earthquake in Japan |
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Yuichiro Tanioka, Aditya Riadi Gusman, Kei Ioki, and Yugo Nakamura |
Paper: | pp. 365-372 | ||
Quasi-Static Stress Change Around Mount Fuji Region Due to Tohoku Mega-Thrust Earthquake |
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Eisuke Fujita, Tomofumi Kozono, Norio Toda, Aiko Kikuchi, and Yoshiaki Ida |
Review: | pp. 373-380 | ||
Volcanic Subsidence Triggered by Megathrust Earthquakes |
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Youichiro Takada and Yo Fukushima |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 381-399 | ||
Data Model of the Strategic Action Planning and Scheduling Problem in a Disaster Response Team |
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Reza Nourjou, Pedro Szekely, Michinori Hatayama, Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany, and Stephen F. Smith |
No.2
(Mar)
Special Issue on “Urban Resilience” for Mega Earthquake Disasters
Special Issue on “Urban Resilience” for Mega Earthquake Disasters
Editorial: | p. 107 | |
“Urban Resilience” for Mega Earthquake Disasters |
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Haruo Hayashi and Shingo Suzuki | ||
Tokyo Metropolitan Earthquake and Nankai Trough Earthquakes predicted to hit Japan in the near future makes it urgent that the impact of urban earthquake disasters be reduced by every means possible. To promote research to this end, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan launched a Special Project for Reducing Vulnerability for UrbanMega Earthquake Disasters in 2012 as a five-year R&D effort embracing three academic disciplines – earth and physical sciences, structural engineering, and social sciences. This project in turn consists of three subprojects – Subproject on the earthquake hazard mechanism and risk evaluation of southern Kanto region, Subproject to develop rapid damage assessment and recovery technology of urban function, and Subproject to develop resilient society improving disaster management competence. This special issue features findings and achievements from this last subproject, whose goal is to enhance society’s resilience based on the experiences and lessons of the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster that crippled Kobe, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster that prostrated Japan’s northeastern Pacific coast and other such disasters. Concretely speaking, by integrating the wisdom of disaster management researchers nationwide and collaborating with other subprojects, this subproject proposes disseminating disaster information technologies and training methodologies to build up disaster preparedness. This, in turn, is aided by improving disaster literacy and competence among both the general public and disaster management personnel. Focusing on the three major metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka, where two-thirds of Japan’s population and three-fourths of the nation’s total assets are concentrated, Web-based disaster information management and dissemination services are being proposed and examined for effectiveness through demonstration experiments and social implementation. In this issue of JDR, we are introducing 11 papers and reports from researchers involved in this subproject to present initia...<more> |
Paper: | pp. 108-120 | ||
Modification and Validation of an Assessment Model of Post-Earthquake Lifeline Serviceability Based on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster |
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Nobuoto Nojima and Hiroki Kato |
Paper: | pp. 121-127 | ||
Development of Damage Functions on Road Infrastructures Subjected to Extreme Ground Excitations by Analyzing Damage in the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake |
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Gaku Shoji and Tomoharu Nakamura |
Paper: | pp. 128-138 | ||
Development of Urban Resilience GeoPortal Online for the Better Understanding of Disaster Scenarios |
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Shingo Suzuki, Haruo Hayashi, and Masafumi Hosokawa |
Paper: | pp. 139-148 | ||
Implementation of Prototype Mobile Application Operated on Smartphones for Micromedia Service |
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Munenari Inoguchi, Keiko Tamura, Satomi Sudo, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 149-160 | ||
Macro Analysis of Initial Responses from Yabuki Municipal Government After the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake |
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Muneyoshi Numada and Kimiro Meguro |
Paper: | pp. 161-175 | ||
Are Cash for Work (CFW) Programs Effective to Promote Disaster Recovery? Evidence from the Case of Fukushima Prefecture |
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Shingo Nagamatsu |
Paper: | pp. 176-187 | ||
Systematization and Sharing of Disaster Management Literacy by DMLH |
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Reo Kimura, Haruo Hayashi, Shingo Suzuki, Kosuke Kobayashi, Kenshin Urabe, Satoshi Inoue, and Takahiro Nishino |
Paper: | pp. 188-197 | ||
Development of Training System for Building Damage Assessment Using Actual Buildings |
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Satoshi Tanaka and Kishie Shigekawa |
Survey Report: | pp. 198-205 | ||
How Can We Collect and Summarize Information About Emergency Response Operations? |
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Norio Maki |
Survey Report: | pp. 206-215 | ||
A Fundamental Study of Efficiency of Information Processing in Emergency Operations Center |
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Fumiaki Ichinose, Yuji Maeda, Naoko Kosaka, Mitsuhiro Higashida, Masahiro Sugiyama, Hideki Takeda, Tomomi Yamamoto, and Haruo Hayashi |
Survey Report: | pp. 216-236 | ||
Practice on an Education and Training Program to Development of Response Literacy to Earthquake Disaster in a Central Business District in Japan |
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Yoe Masuzawa, Yoshiaki Hisada, Masahiro Murakami, Jun Shindo, Masamitsu Miyamura, Hitoshi Suwa, Satoshi Tanaka, Kaoru Mizukoshi, and Yosuke Nakajima |
No.1
(Feb)
Regular papers
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 3-16 | ||
Next Generation of Soil-Structure Interaction Models for Design of Nuclear Power Plants |
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Alexander G. Tyapin |
Paper: | pp. 17-26 | ||
Estimation of the Dynamic Properties and Seismic Response of a Populated Slope in Lima, Peru |
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Carlos Gonzales, Shoichi Nakai, Toru Sekiguchi, Diana Calderon, Zenon Aguilar, and Fernando Lazares |
Paper: | pp. 27-34 | ||
Post-Disaster Local Collaboration on Residential Power Saving in Japan: Citizen Networks and Linkage with Local Government and the Workplace |
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Hidenori Nakamura |
Paper: | pp. 35-41 | ||
Risk Measuring Model on Public Liability Fire and Empirical Study in China |
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Guo-Xue Gu and Shang-Mei Zhao |
Paper: | pp. 42-47 | ||
Typhoon Economic Loss Prediction in China by Applying General Regression Neural Network and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis |
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Bo Cheng, Ling Cheng, and Lingmin Jiang |
Paper: | pp. 48-54 | ||
Secular Changes in the Tidal Amplitude and Influence of Sea-Level Rise in the East China Sea |
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Akira Tai and Kaori Tanaka |
Paper: | pp. 55-68 | ||
Development of an Integrated Decision-Making Method for Effective Flood Early Warning System |
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Mamoru Miyamoto, Rabindra Osti, and Toshio Okazumi |
Paper: | pp. 69-77 | ||
Uncertainty Estimation During the Process of Flood Risk Assessment in Developing Countries – Case Study in the Pampanga River Basin – |
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Toshio Okazumi, Mamoru Miyamoto, Badri Bhakta Shrestha, and Maksym Gusyev |
Paper: | pp. 78-85 | ||
New Development of Functions of a Dry Dam for an Adaptation to Climate Change |
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Akira Tai, Hideo Oshikawa, and Toshimitsu Komatsu |
Survey Report: | pp. 86-91 | ||
Local Dialysis Disaster Relief During Two Torrential Downpours on Amami-Ohshima Island |
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Hiroaki Nishimura, Ichiro Kagara, Satoru Inokuchi, Hideki Enokida, Hiroshi Hayami, and Masayuki Nakagawa |
Vol.8 (2013)
No.6
(Dec)
Special Issue on Wind Disasters
Special Issue on Wind Disasters
Editorial: | p. 1033 | |
Wind Disasters |
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Yukio Tamura | ||
Increasing numbers of devastating weather events such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and tornadoes in the US and Japan are suggesting that nature’s destructive power is having a growing worldwide impact. These events follow the occurrence of such disasters as Cyclone Sidr in 2007 in Bangladesh and Cyclone Nargis in 2008 in Myanmar, especially in the alarming numbers of deaths and injuries and concomitant property loss. The wind engineering community has taken the initiative in globally promoting wind hazard research and education over the last several decades and is continuing to devote its efforts and energy to producing and providing techniques in advanced wind hazard mitigation to developing countries prone to typhoons and cyclones. Mitigating the effects of wind hazards on a global plane has thus become a top priority because most of the economic and other loss due globally to natural disasters is caused by extreme wind and water events. Calamitous tropical cyclones generally bring with them high waves, storm surges, heavy rain, flooding, landslides and lightning. This ongoing process underscores the pressing need to pool expertise and cooperation in reducing such loss. The loss of lives and related financial loss and waste due to such disasters is continuing to increase significantly. It has therefore been hypothesized that global warming and climate change are potentially exacerbating such scenarios as the intensity of weather-related disasters grows. This special issue of the Journal of Disaster Research focusing on wind-induced disasters is thus both meaningful and timely. As the Guest Editor, I am most pleased to have this opportunity to present and share the latest in knowledge, information and resources on wind damage mitigation to all those working in mitigation efforts and to society as a whole. Finally, I extend our sincere thanks to all of the contributors and reviewers involved with these articles. |
Paper: | pp. 1034-1041 | ||
Development of the EF-Scale for Tornado Intensity |
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Kishor C. Mehta |
Paper: | pp. 1042-1051 | ||
Structural Damage Under Multiple Hazards in Coastal Environments |
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Megan C. McCullough, Ahsan Kareem, Aaron S. Donahue, and Joannes J. Westerink |
Paper: | pp. 1052-1060 | ||
Characteristics of Damages of Severe Local Storms Based on Field Surveys in Bangladesh |
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Yusuke Yamane, Masashi Kiguchi, Taiichi Hayashi, Ashraf M. Dewan, and Toru Terao |
Paper: | pp. 1061-1067 | ||
Residential Damage Patterns Following the 2011 Tuscaloosa, AL and Joplin, MO Tornadoes |
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David B. Roueche and David O. Prevatt |
Survey Report: | pp. 1068-1070 | ||
Investigation of the Ferry Disaster Incident of Assam (India) on April 30, 2012 |
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Kalyan Kumar Das |
Paper: | pp. 1071-1077 | ||
Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Features of Tornadic Storms Occurred in Kanto, Japan, on May 6, 2012 |
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Fumiaki Kobayashi and Mika Yamaji |
Paper: | pp. 1078-1083 | ||
Tornado Disaster 2012 in Northern Kanto and the Features of Tornado Disasters in Japan |
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Junji Maeda and Eriko Tomokiyo |
Paper: | pp. 1084-1089 | ||
Critical Equivalent Wind Speeds for Overturning and Roof Blow-off of 2-StoryWooden Houses |
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Rei Okada, Yukio Tamura, Masahiro Matsui, and Akihito Yoshida |
Paper: | pp. 1090-1095 | ||
Wind Speed of Tornado to Make a Road Damage |
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Minoru Noda and Fumiaki Nagao |
Paper: | pp. 1096-1102 | ||
Statistical Summary and Case Studies of Strong Wind Damage in China |
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Shuyang Cao and Jin Wang |
Regular Papers
Survey Report: | pp. 1103-1113 | ||
Wind Resistance of Vented Vinyl and Aluminum Soffit Panel Systems |
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C. L. Alexander, F. J. Masters, M. J. Morrison, and S. Bolton |
Paper: | pp. 1114-1119 | ||
Missile Impact Resistant Test of Glasses According to ISO 16932 |
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Takashi Maruyama, Hiromasa Kawai, Hiroaki Nishimura, and Mayuko Hanatani |
No.5
(Oct)
Special Issue on Strong Ground Motion Prediction and Seismic Hazard Assessment
Special Issue on Strong Ground Motion Prediction and Seismic Hazard Assessment
Editorial: | p. 847 | |
Strong Ground Motion Prediction and Seismic Hazard Assessment |
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Hiroyuki Fujiwara | ||
We have been conducting seismic hazard assessment for Japan under the guidance of the Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion of Japan since the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu Earthquake, and have made National Seismic Hazard Maps for Japan for use in estimating strong ground motion caused by future earthquakes. This special issue reviews the results of these efforts. Such work includes the development of seismic hazard assessment methodology for Japan, highly accurate prediction techniques for strong seismic ground motion and modeling underground structures for evaluating strong ground motion. Related research on utilization initiatives and risk assessment based on hazard information has also been conducted. An open Web system – the Japan Seismic Hazard Information Station (J-SHIS) – has even been developed to provide information interactively. The 2011 Mw9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake was the largest such event recorded in the history of Japan. This megathrust earthquake was not considered in National Seismic Hazard Maps for Japan. But efforts toward revising seismic hazard assessment in Japan are progressing based on lessons learned from this earthquake. Hazard assessment is currently being reviewed in relation to the large earthquakes anticipated to occur in the near future based in the Sagami Trough and the Nankai Trough in the waters of offshore Japan. This assessment, which considers earthquakes larger than those assumed to have occurred in the past, is being reviewed as of this writing. In light of these pressing circumstances, studies are now being implemented to evaluate the long-period ground motion accompanying these large earthquakes. The knowledge that has been cultivated in Japan in terms of seismic hazard assessment has reached a high level, and it is important to expand such knowledge both internationally and domestically. This is just one of the reasons that efforts here in Japan are being made to help improve the level of seismic hazard assessment in the Asian region and throughout the entire world. It is expected that this special issue will help contribut...<more> |
Paper: | pp. 848-860 | ||
Seismic Hazard Assessment for Japan: Reconsiderations After the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake |
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Hiroyuki Fujiwara, Nobuyuki Morikawa, and Toshihiko Okumura |
Paper: | pp. 861-868 | ||
Exposure Analysis Using the Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Maps for Japan |
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Nobuoto Nojima, Satoshi Fujikawa, Yutaka Ishikawa, Toshihiko Okumura, Hiroyuki Fujiwara, and Nobuyuki Morikawa |
Paper: | pp. 869-877 | ||
Development of J-SHIS and Applications Using API |
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Hiroki Azuma, Shinichi Kawai, and Hiroyuki Fujiwara |
Paper: | pp. 878-888 | ||
A New Ground Motion Prediction Equation for Japan Applicable up to M9 Mega-Earthquake |
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Nobuyuki Morikawa and Hiroyuki Fujiwara |
Paper: | pp. 889-903 | ||
Modeling of the Subsurface Structure from the Seismic Bedrock to the Ground Surface for a Broadband Strong Motion Evaluation |
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Shigeki Senna, Takahiro Maeda, Yoshiaki Inagaki, Haruhiko Suzuki, Hisanori Matsuyama, and Hiroyuki Fujiwara |
Paper: | pp. 904-911 | ||
Nationwide 7.5-Arc-Second Japan Engineering Geomorphologic Classification Map and Vs30 Zoning |
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Kazue Wakamatsu and Masashi Matsuoka |
Paper: | pp. 912-925 | ||
Finite-Difference Simulation of Long-Period Ground Motion for the Nankai Trough Megathrust Earthquakes |
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Takahiro Maeda, Nobuyuki Morikawa, Asako Iwaki, Shin Aoi, and Hiroyuki Fujiwara |
Paper: | pp. 926-940 | ||
Finite-Difference Simulation of Long-Period Ground Motion for the Sagami Trough Megathrust Earthquakes |
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Asako Iwaki, Nobuyuki Morikawa, Takahiro Maeda, Shin Aoi, and Hiroyuki Fujiwara |
Paper: | pp. 941-961 | ||
Seismic Risk Evaluation on Building Damage of Municipalities Based on the Seismic Activity Model in National Seismic Hazard Maps for Japan |
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Masatsugu Wakaura, Yasushi Komaru, Satoshi Shimizu, Hiroyuki Fujiwara, and Nobuyuki Morikawa |
Paper: | pp. 962-973 | ||
Development of Earthquake Risk Evaluation Method for Individual Buildings Intended for Utilization in Local Communities |
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Ippei Kondo, Ryo Wakabayashi, Kaoru Mizukoshi, Akihiro Kusaka, Hiroyuki Fujiwara, and Nobusuke Hasegawa |
Survey Report: | pp. 974-980 | ||
Case Study for Local Municipal Program for Seismic Risk Assessment |
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Nobusuke Hasegawa |
Paper: | pp. 981-989 | ||
Prototype of a Real-Time System for Earthquake Damage Estimation in Japan |
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Hiromitsu Nakamura, Shin Aoi, Takashi Kunugi, Wataru Suzuki, and Hiroyuki Fujiwara |
Paper: | pp. 990-1000 | ||
Development and Testing of a Mobile Application for Recording and Analyzing Seismic Data |
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Shohei Naito, Hiroki Azuma, Shigeki Senna, Mutsuhiro Yoshizawa, Hiromitsu Nakamura, Ken Xiansheng Hao, Hiroyuki Fujiwara, Yoshiharu Hirayama, Noboru Yuki, and Minoru Yoshida |
Review: | pp. 1001-1007 | ||
Recent Destructive Earthquakes and International Collaboration for Seismic Hazard Assessment |
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Ken Xiansheng Hao and Hiroyuki Fujiwara |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 1009-1017 | ||
Effectiveness of Disaster-Based School Program on Students’ Earthquake-Preparedness |
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Wignyo Adiyoso and Hidehiko Kanegae |
Paper: | pp. 1018-1024 | ||
Indirect Economic Loss Estimation due to Seismic Highway Transportation System Disruption in “5.12” Wenchuan Earthquake |
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Yan Shi and Shaoyu Wang |
No.sp
(Sep)
Special Issue on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster: Part II
Special Issue on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster: Part II
Editorial: | p. 729 | |
the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster: Part II |
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Haruo Hayashi | ||
The Journal of Disaster Research (JDR), published bimonthly in English since 2006 as a Japan-based academic journal, promotes multidisciplinary research on disaster reduction due to all hazards – natural, unintended and intended. Since the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster on March 11, 2011, we have worked as our duty to provide a forum for all stakeholders and researchers in the world to describe what happened scientifically in terms of human and property damage and in subsequent social and economic damage by this unprecedented occurrence, including the incident involving Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. As one contribution, JDR is publishing special annual issues for the next five years on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster – with NO PAGE CHARGES TO CONTRIBUTORS. This effort began in 2012. The purpose of these special issues is to record, communicate and share the lessons learned from this disaster. In our second special issue, 16 papers were submitted and we are proud to introduce 11 papers touching on different aspects of the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster. We are sure you will find these papers interesting and informative. We also look forward to receiving contributions for the third special issue, which will be published in the summer of 2014. |
Note: | pp. 730-736 | ||
A Study on Social Responsibility of Engineers and Managers |
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Kiyoshi Sato |
Review: | pp. 737-745 | ||
The Six Principles of Recovery: A Guideline for Preparing for Future Disaster Recoveries |
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Takaaki Kato, Yasmin Bhattacharya, Hiroshi Sugata, and Rie Otagiri |
Paper: | pp. 746-755 | ||
Evidence-Based Analysis of Search and Rescue Operations Following the Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Atsushi Koresawa |
Paper: | pp. 756-761 | ||
A Study on Internal Radiation Exposure due to 137Cs Caused by Fukushima Daiichi NPP Accident |
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Tomoyuki Furutani, Masaharu Tsubokura, Keisuke Uehara, Masahiko Nihei, and Yu Sakuma |
Survey Report: | pp. 762-772 | ||
Consumer Awareness and Attitude on Radiocesium Food Contamination Following Fukushima Incident |
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Hiromi Hosono, Yuko Kumagai, and Tsutomu Sekizaki |
Paper: | pp. 773-780 | ||
Significant Factors for Implementing BCP |
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Shinichi Okabe and Akio Nagahira |
Paper: | pp. 781-791 | ||
Long-Period Ground Motions Observed in the Northern Part of Kanto Basin, During the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake, Japan |
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Seiji Tsuno, Andi Muhamad Pramatadie, Yadab P. Dhakal, Kosuke Chimoto, Wakana Tsutsumi, and Hiroaki Yamanaka |
Paper: | pp. 792-801 | ||
Study on the Changes in People’s Consciousness Regarding the Earthquake Early Warning Before and After the Great East Japan Earthquake – Analysis Based on Regular Disaster Information Survey Results – |
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Miho Ohara and Atsushi Tanaka |
Paper: | pp. 802-813 | ||
Foreigners’ Evacuation Behavior in the Great East Japan Earthquake: A Case of Iwaki City in Fukushima Prefecture |
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Md. Faiz Shah and Osamu Murao |
Paper: | pp. 814-825 | ||
The Emergence of Food Panic: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Oscar A. Gómez S. |
Paper: | pp. 826-834 | ||
Survival of Shrines from the 2011 Great Tsunami |
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Takaaki Uda and Kazuya Sakai |
No.4
(Aug)
Special Issue on the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami
Special Issue on Dual Use
Special Issue on the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami
Editorial: | pp. 547-548 | |
the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami |
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Tomoyuki Takahashi and Nobuo Shuto | ||
An unprecedented M9.0 earthquake occurring at 14:46 local time on March 11, 2011, off of northeast Japan’s Pacific Ocean generated a huge tsunami which had a run-up of over 40 m at the highest point and nearly 20,000 lives were lost. The tsunami demonstrated the need to drastically readdress current tsunami countermeasures. “Guidebook for Tsunami Preparedness in Local Hazard Mitigation Planning” published prior to the March 11 tsunami had already estimated, as one of the cases of tsunami assumptions, that the tsunami could be generated by the largest earthquake near off the Sanriku Coast predicted by the recent seismology. The seismotectonics had predicted that off the Sanriku Coast consisted of three independent blocks, which could conceivably cause an M8.6 earthquake at the largest. However, three blocks were not independent and they moved continuously to yield an earthquake of M9.0. The Guidebook had recommended a combination of three approaches for handling such a tsunami; Construction of defense structures, Tsunami-resilient town development, and Disaster prevention systems – defense structures were not expected to completely prevent every tsunami but only reduce its effect. Caissons forming part of Kamaishi Port’s tsunami breakwaters and registered in Guinness World Records, were overturned but reduced the tsunami height from 14 m outside the port to 8 m inside. Many coastal dikes were also destroyed, even though three surfaces – fore slope, top slope, and rear slope – had been protected using concrete and other means. Such phenomena pinpoint the importance of toe protection against erosion. Since 2004, tsunami inundation hazard maps have been distributed to communities in Japan as an aid to public education and as part of the country’s nationwide disaster prevention system. Unexpectedly, these maps had a negative effect in many places where residents living outside inundation areas mentioned on the hazard maps believed they were safe under all condition. Many did not in fact keep track of the actual tsunami rising in front of their very eyes and not evacuate, thus losing their lives. ...<more> |
Paper: | pp. 549-560 | ||
Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami Disaster |
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Shunichi Koshimura, Satomi Hayashi, and Hideomi Gokon |
Paper: | pp. 561-572 | ||
The 2011 Tohoku Tsunami Flow Velocity Estimation by the Aerial Video Analysis and Numerical Modeling |
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Satomi Hayashi and Shunichi Koshimura |
Paper: | pp. 573-583 | ||
Risk Evaluation of Drifting Ship by Tsunami |
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Yusuke Suga, Shunichi Koshimura, and Ei-ichi Kobayashi |
Paper: | pp. 584-593 | ||
Tsunami Fires After the Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Akihiko Hokugo, Tomoaki Nishino, and Takuya Inada |
Paper: | pp. 594-604 | ||
Damage in Ports due to the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami |
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Takashi Tomita, Taro Arikawa, and Tadashi Asai |
Paper: | pp. 605-611 | ||
Estimation of Wave Force Acting on Bridge Superstructures due to the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami |
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Shojiro Kataoka and Masahiro Kaneko |
Paper: | pp. 612-625 | ||
Damages to Shore Protection Facilities Induced by the Great East Japan Earthquake Tsunami |
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Fuminori Kato, Yoshio Suwa, Kunihiro Watanabe, and Satoshi Hatogai |
Paper: | pp. 626-634 | ||
The Damage and Recovery Measures of Sewage Treatment Systems Caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Hiroaki Morita |
Survey Report: | pp. 635-642 | ||
Railway Structure Damage to the East Japan Railway Company by the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami |
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Susumu Mafune, Hiroto Suzuki, Torajiro Fujiwara, and Shin-ichiro Nozawa |
Special Issue on Dual Use
Editorial: | p. 643 | |
Dual Use |
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Hiroshi Yoshikura | ||
“Dual use” can be defined as potential use of science and technology for destructive purpose as well as for constructive purposes. While the history of the dual use is long (such as, debate on atomic energy), after the anthrax incident in the wake of the terrorist attack of World Trade Center in New York on September 2001, “dual use” issue surfaced as the matter of “biosecurity.” The debate on biosecurity was further ignited by the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity’s recommendation on the publication of experiments dealing with the host range expansion of the avian influenza virus H5N1. The present special issue deals with the “dual use” mainly from the “biosecurity” view point, including the bioweapon and its history, biosecurity negotiation in the Biological Weapon Convention, regulatory framework of use of pathogens and its implementation, ethical issues, education of the “dual use” issues for life scientists, the feasibility of direct application of the published data to the dual use and the recent progress of synthetic biology and its biosecurity implication. The present guest editor wishes that these articles will stimulate debate on “dual use” issues in various branches of science and technology, as he realizes that “dual use” issue is becoming prominent not only in microbiological researches but also in other activities, such as, IT, robotics, neuroscience, psychology, economics, etc. He extends his sincere thanks to all of the contributors and reviewers involved with these articles. |
Review: | pp. 644-653 | ||
Biosecurity, Dual Use and Research Ethics |
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Hiroshi Yoshikura |
Review: | pp. 654-666 | ||
Bioweapons and Dual-Use Research of Concern |
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Nariyoshi Shinomiya, Masamichi Minehata, and Malcolm Dando |
Paper: | pp. 667-673 | ||
Dual-Use Issues in the Life Sciences: Outcomes of the Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention |
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Kiwako Tanaka |
Review: | pp. 674-685 | ||
Promoting Education of Dual-Use Issues for Life Scientists: A Comprehensive Approach |
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Masamichi Minehata, Judi Sture, Nariyoshi Shinomiya, Simon Whitby, and Malcolm Dando |
Review: | pp. 686-692 | ||
Japanese Regulatory Space on Biosecurity and Dual Use Research of Concern |
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Tomohiko Makino |
Review: | pp. 693-697 | ||
Dual Use Research of Concern Issues in the Field of Microbiology Research in Japan |
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Masayuki Saijo |
Review: | pp. 698-704 | ||
Synthetic Biology and Dual Use |
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Daisuke Kiga |
Paper: | pp. 705-713 | ||
Dual-Use Research and the Myth of Easy Replication |
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Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley |
Note: | pp. 714-716 | ||
Dual Use in Pathogen Research |
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Takashi Okamoto |
No.3
(Jun)
Special Issue on 2011 Thailand Flood
Special Issue on 2011 Thailand Flood
Editorial: | p. 379 | |
2011 Thailand Flood |
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Keiichi Toda | ||
Numerous global water disasters have devastated many regions, and some may be due to climate change. Severe water disasters not only may inflict heavily damage on industry but may also leave many persons dead or seriously injured. The 2011 Thailand flood is a typical example of such disasters. In it, a wide area of the Chao Phraya River basin, where Bangkok is located, was inundated for a long period. Damage by the flood affected not only the domestic scene but also economies and industries all over the world. Many academicians and researchers have executed field surveys from various academic aspects and have studied flood disasters to clarify what actually occurred and to consider what must be done to mitigate such flood events in the future. The Journal of Disaster Research has planned a special issue on this severe flooding in Thailand. Having participated in field surveys and found the flood worth studying more deeply, I decided to contribute to this special issue as a Guest Editor. This special issue contains 9 articles, 7 papers and 2 reports, all of which have been peer-reviewed. The broad topics covered range from a detailed field survey to flood and inundation simulation. I would like to extend sincere thanks to all of the contributors and reviewers involved in producing these articles. Especially, I would especially like to express my gratitude to Dr. Hiroshi Takebayashi, Associate Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan, for his great support. I look forward with great anticipation to any feedback that readers may be able to provide regarding these articles. |
Paper: | pp. 380-385 | ||
2011 Thailand Flood |
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Sanit Wongsa |
Paper: | pp. 386-396 | ||
Field and Interview Surveys of the Flood of 2011, Thailand |
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Hiroshi Takebayashi, Keiichi Toda, Hajime Nakagawa, and Hao Zhang |
Paper: | pp. 397-405 | ||
Impacts of Mid-Rainy Season Rainfall on Runoff into the Chao Phraya River, Thailand |
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Shunji Kotsuki and Kenji Tanaka |
Paper: | pp. 406-414 | ||
Approach to Estimate the Flood Damage in Sukhothai Province Using Flood Simulation |
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Anurak Sriariyawat, Kwanchai Pakoksung, Takahiro Sayama, Shigenobu Tanaka, and Sucharit Koontanakulvong |
Paper: | pp. 415-423 | ||
Development of a Flow Routing Model Including Inundation Effect for the Extreme Flood in the Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand 2011 |
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Supattana Wichakul, Yasuto Tachikawa, Michiharu Shiiba, and Kazuaki Yorozu |
Survey Report: | pp. 424-431 | ||
Investigation Report on the Flooding Condition in the Midstream Area of Chao Praya River During the Thai Flooding in 2011 |
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Kohei Fujii, Kenichi Tsukahara, Hironori Hayashi, Yasuhiro Mitani, Hiro Ikemi, Cham Tau Chia, and Yukihiro Shimatani |
Paper: | pp. 432-446 | ||
Application of the Probability Evaluation for the Seasonal Reservoir Operation on Flood Mitigation and Water Supply in the Chao Phraya River Watershed, Thailand |
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Daisuke Komori, Cherry May Mateo, Akane Saya, Shinichiro Nakamura, Masashi Kiguchi, Phonchai Klinkhachorn, Thada Sukhapunnaphan, Adisorn Champathong, Kimio Takeya, and TaikanOki |
Paper: | pp. 447-455 | ||
Study of Flood Control Capability and Advanced Application of Multiple Dams Constructed in Series |
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Hideo Oshikawa, Yuka Mito, and Toshimitsu Komatsu |
Survey Report: | pp. 456-464 | ||
Solid Waste Management in Bangkok at 2011 Thailand Floods |
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Hirofumi Nakayama, Takayuki Shimaoka, Kiyoshi Omine, Maryono, Plubcharoensuk Patsaraporn, and Orawan Siriratpiriya |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 465-472 | ||
Options for the Treatment of Uncertainty in Seismic Safety Assessment of Nuclear Power Plants |
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Tamas Janos Katona |
Survey Report: | pp. 473-483 | ||
Difference in Typhoon Damage Report Data |
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Shinya Shimokawa and Takahiro Kayahara |
Paper: | pp. 484-494 | ||
Development of Disaster Knowledge Magazine Using Disaster Knowledge Transmission and Practical Study on its Evaluation |
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Ryoga Ishihara and Nobuhiko Matsumura |
Paper: | pp. 495-507 | ||
From Temporary to Permanent: Mississippi Cottages After Hurricane Katrina |
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Elizabeth Maly and Tamiyo Kondo |
Letter: | pp. 508-511 | ||
Psychological Challenges Among Older Adults Following the Christchurch Earthquakes |
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Michael Annear, Tim Wilkinson, and Sally Keeling |
Paper: | pp. 512-518 | ||
The Construction of a Flood Monitoring System with Alert Distribution Using Google Earth and 3D GIS |
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Yili Chan and Masatoshi Mori |
Paper: | pp. 519-525 | ||
Use of a Phase-Oriented Management System Against an Outbreak of Infectious Gastroenteritis in an Evacuation Center After the Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Seisuke Okazawa, Hayato Yamauchi, Tomomi Ichikawa, Ryuji Hayashi, Koichiro Shinoda, Maiko Obi, Takuro Arishima, Akinori Wada, and Kazuyuki Tobe |
Paper: | pp. 526-533 | ||
Shaking Table Test on Seismic Response Properties of “Shicras,” Stones Wrapped in Vegetable Fiber Bags |
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Hiroshi Fukuyama, Masami Fujisawa, Akio Abe, Toshikazu Kabeyasawa, Zen Shirane, Taiki Saito, and Zenon Aguilar |
No.2
(Mar)
Special Issue on Enhancement of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru
Special Issue on Enhancement of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru
Editorial: | p. 223 | |
Enhancement of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru |
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Fumio Yamazaki and Carlos Zavala | ||
Natural disasters are major threats worldwide, with earthquakes and tsunamis presenting major obstacles to sustainable development, especially in Asia-Pacific countries. Natural hazards must be understood and social resilience improved to reduce the risks of disaster. Because earthquakes and tsunamis are rare but devastating events, data must be collected on a global scale, making international collaboration is inevitable for reducing loss due to these events. A new international research program called the Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) started in 2008 jointly sponsored by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Our proposal, entitled Enhancement of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru, was designated as one of the projects in the field of natural disaster prevention in April 2009. Since this project officially started in March 2010, the research program has been promoted by five groups – seismic motion and geotechnical, tsunami, buildings, spatial information database and damage assessment, and disaster mitigation planning – through the strong collaboration of Peruvian and Japanese researchers and stakeholders. Midway through the project, we decided to publish our research results in the form of English technical papers so that a wide and global range of researchers and practitioners could take advantage of our findings. This special issue of the Journal of Disaster Research contains 15 articles – an overview of the project and its progress and 14 peer-reviewed papers covering aspects ranging from earthquake and tsunami hazards to risk reduction. We extend our sincere thanks to all of the contributors and reviewers involved with these articles. We would further deeply appreciate feedback from readers on these papers to prepare for a second special JDR volume on this project within the next two years. |
Review: | pp. 224-234 | ||
SATREPS Project on Enhancement of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technology in Peru |
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Fumio Yamazaki and Carlos Zavala |
Paper: | pp. 235-242 | ||
Strong Motion Simulation of the M8.0 August 15, 2007, Pisco Earthquake; Effect of a Multi-Frequency Rupture Process |
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Nelson Pulido, Hernando Tavera, Zenon Aguilar, Shoichi Nakai, and Fumio Yamazaki |
Paper: | pp. 243-251 | ||
Preliminary Analysis for Evaluation of Local Site Effects in Lima City, Peru from Ground Motion Data by Using the Spectral Inversion Method |
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Selene Quispe, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Zenon Aguilar, Fernando Lazares, and Hernando Tavera |
Paper: | pp. 252-258 | ||
Estimation of Deep Shear-Wave Velocity Profiles in Lima, Peru, Using Seismometers Arrays |
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Diana Calderon, Zenon Aguilar, Fernando Lazares, Toru Sekiguchi, and Shoichi Nakai |
Paper: | pp. 259-265 | ||
Evaluation of Surface Soil Amplification for Wide Areas in Lima, Peru |
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Toru Sekiguchi, Diana Calderon, Shoichi Nakai, Zenon Aguilar, and Fernando Lazares |
Paper: | pp. 266-273 | ||
Seismic Source of 1746 Callao Earthquake from Tsunami Numerical Modeling |
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Cesar Jimenez, Nabilt Moggiano, Erick Mas, Bruno Adriano, Shunichi Koshimura, Yushiro Fujii, and Hideaki Yanagisawa |
Paper: | pp. 274-284 | ||
Tsunami Inundation Mapping in Lima, for Two Tsunami Source Scenarios |
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Bruno Adriano, Erick Mas, Shunichi Koshimura, Yushiro Fujii, Sheila Yauri, Cesar Jimenez, and Hideaki Yanagisawa |
Paper: | pp. 285-295 | ||
An Integrated Simulation of Tsunami Hazard and Human Evacuation in La Punta, Peru |
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Erick Mas, Bruno Adriano, and Shunichi Koshimura |
Paper: | pp. 296-304 | ||
Experimental Study on Flexural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Walls |
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Sergio Sunley, Koichi Kusunoki, Taiki Saito, and Carlos Zavala |
Paper: | pp. 305-311 | ||
Experimental Study on Dynamic Behavior of Unreinforced Masonry Walls |
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Taiki Saito, Luis Moya, Cesar Fajardo, and Koichi Morita |
Paper: | pp. 312-319 | ||
Cyclic Behavior of Low Ductility Walls Considering Perpendicular Action |
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Carlos Zavala, Patricia Gibu, Luis Lavado, Jenny Taira, Lourdes Cardenas, and Luis Ceferino |
Paper: | pp. 320-327 | ||
Diagnosis for Seismic Vulnerability Evaluation of Historical Buildings in Lima, Peru |
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Carlos Cuadra, Taiki Saito, and Carlos Zavala |
Paper: | pp. 328-345 | ||
Extraction of Urban Information for Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment in Lima, Peru Using Satellite Imagery |
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Masashi Matsuoka, Hiroyuki Miura, Saburoh Midorikawa, and Miguel Estrada |
Paper: | pp. 346-355 | ||
Development of Earthquake-Induced Building Damage Estimation Model Based on ALOS/PALSAR Observing the 2007 Peru Earthquake |
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Masashi Matsuoka and Miguel Estrada |
Paper: | pp. 356-364 | ||
Urban Recovery Process in Pisco After the 2007 Peru Earthquake |
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Osamu Murao, Tomoyo Hoshi, Miguel Estrada, Kazuya Sugiyasu, Masashi Matsuoka, and Fumio Yamazaki |
No.1
(Feb)
Special Issue on Sustainability/Survivability Science for a Resilient Society Adaptable to Extreme Weather Conditions
Abstracts of International Symposium on GCOE-ARS (2012)
Special Issue on Sustainability/Survivability Science for a Resilient Society Adaptable to Extreme Weather Conditions
Editorial: | p. 3 | |
Extreme Weather and Water-Related Disasters: A Key Issue for the Sustainability and Survivability of Our Society |
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Kaoru Takara and Haruo Hayashi | ||
1. Extreme Weather and Water-Related Disasters Extreme weather events frequently take place in many parts of the world, causing various kinds of water-related disasters such as windstorms, floods, high tides, debris flows, droughts, and water-quality issues. This is a key issue for the sustainability and survivability of our society. The Asian and Pacific region is one of the most disaster-prone areas in the world. It is very adversely affected by natural hazards such as cyclones and typhoons and tsunami caused by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions under the sea. These natural hazards bring severe disasters to all countries in the region where social change, in terms of population and economic growth, is the most dynamic in the world. Growth in this region of the world has not, however, led to advances in disaster risk management. The situation is getting worse because infrastructure development cannot keep up with growth. Policies for poverty reduction and alleviation are insufficient and the difference between being rich and being poor is increasing. Vulnerable populations are often those hit worst by hazards and disasters. As the world’s cities expand to occupy ever greater portions of the world’s flood plains, riversides and shorelines, the risk of flooding will continue to outpace both structural and nonstructural mitigation efforts. “A natural hazard strikes when persons lose their memory of the previous one.” This quotation is from Dr. Torahiko Terada (1878-1935), a former Professor of the University of Tokyo who influenced many Japanese persons as an educator, physicist and philosopher. Persons tend to forget bad memories if they do not experience a similar event for a long time. This lack of experience and ignorance increases the vulnerability of society to disasters. |
Paper: | pp. 7-17 | ||
The Development of Micromedia Transmitting the Disaster-Related Information Against Torrential Rains and Guerrilla Rains |
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Satomi Sudo, Go Urakawa, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 18-27 | ||
The Potential of Fijian Traditional Housing to Cope with Natural Disasters in Rural Fiji |
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Ayako Fujieda and Hirohide Kobayashi |
Paper: | pp. 28-36 | ||
Japan-Egypt Hydro Network: Science and Technology Collaborative Research for Flash Flood Management |
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Tetsuya Sumi, Mohamed Saber, and Sameh Ahmad Kantoush |
Paper: | pp. 37-47 | ||
A High-Resolution, Precipitable Water Vapor Monitoring System Using a Dense Network of GNSS Receivers |
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Kazutoshi Sato, Eugenio Realini, Toshitaka Tsuda, Masanori Oigawa, Yuya Iwaki, Yoshinori Shoji, and Hiromu Seko |
Paper: | pp. 48-56 | ||
An Experimental Data Handling System for Ensemble Numerical Weather Predictions Using a Web-Based Data Server and Analysis Tool “Gfdnavi” |
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Shigenori Otsuka, Seiya Nishizawa, Takeshi Horinouchi, and Shigeo Yoden |
Paper: | pp. 57-68 | ||
Radar Echo Population of Air-Mass Thunderstorms and Nowcasting of Thunderstorm-Induced Local Heavy Rainfalls Part 1: Statistical Characteristics |
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Masahito Ishihara |
Paper: | pp. 69-80 | ||
Radar Echo Population of Air-Mass Thunderstorms and Nowcasting of Thunderstorm-Induced Local Heavy Rainfalls Part II: A Feasibility Study on Nowcasting |
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Masahito Ishihara |
Survey Report: | pp. 81-89 | ||
Application of Electrical Resistivity Imaging for MeasuringWater Content Distribution on Hillslopes |
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Yosuke Yamakawa, Naoya Masaoka, Ken’ichirou Kosugi, Yasuyuki Tada, and Takahisa Mizuyama |
Survey Report: | pp. 90-94 | ||
Localization of Risk Communication Tools: Two Case Studies |
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Toshiko Kikkawa and Seiji Suzuki |
Note: | pp. 95-102 | ||
Comparison of Sungkai Tree-Ring Components and Meteorological Data from Western Java, Indonesia |
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YumikoWatanabe, Shigeki Tamura, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Suyako Tazuru, Junji Sugiyama, Bambang Subiyanto, Toshitaka Tsuda, and Takahiro Tagami |
Note: | pp. 103-113 | ||
Reversibility Between “Nature” and “Society” Recognized in Extreme Meteorological Phenomenon: Taking an Example of the Flood Disaster in the Toga River in Kobe City |
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Katsuya Yamori and Motoyuki Ushiyama |
Abstracts of International Symposium on GCOE-ARS (2012)
Appendix: | pp. 114-208 | ||
Abstracts of Presentations at the International Symposium on GCOE-ARS (2012) |
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Vol.7 (2012)
No.6
(Dec)
Special Issue on Selected Papers from 9th CUEE
Special Issue on Infectious Disease Control of Natural Disasters
Special Issue on Selected Papers from 9th CUEE
Editorial: | p. 671 | |
Selected Papers from 9th CUEE |
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Kazuhiko Kasai, Kohji Tokimatsu, and Saburoh Midorikawa | ||
The 9th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering (9th CUEE) and the 4th Asia Conference on Earthquake Engineering (4th ACEE) were jointly held on March 6-8, 2012 in Tokyo, as a part of the research activities of the Center for Urban Earthquake Engineering (CUEE), Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. The conference featured state-of-the-art technical presentations on various themes relevant to urban earthquake engineering, followed by special sessions addressing the 11th March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami that resulted in catastrophic damage and an estimated death toll of 20,000. The conference attracted 465 participants from 31 countries, and disseminated 283 papers. The board members of the Journal of Disaster Research (JDR) decided to publish special issues of JDR, selecting papers from the above joint conference, for the purpose of mainly updating status of Japan’s research/technology. The present issue is on the fields of engineering seismology and geotechnical engineering, including extraordinary ground shaking and liquefactions that affected wide areas during the March 11 incident. Other issues such as those on buildings and infrastructures are also planned. The 8 manuscripts selected and managed by the JDR Guest Editors address the following topics: - Array observations of ground shaking - Large peak ground acceleration and site amplification - Attenuation of the seismic wave - Impact against the water-supply outages - Liquefaction in a river levee on soft cohesive ground - Spread foundation performance affecting superstructure - Performance of piled raft foundation with grid-form ground improvement - Liquefaction of levee body and seepage control The Guest Editors as well as JDR board members thank the authors for their contributions and revisions. They also acknowledge gratefully the reviewers for their invaluable comments on the manuscripts. |
Paper: | pp. 672-681 | ||
Strong-Motion Records Obtained by an Array Observation System During the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Makoto Kamiyama, Tadashi Matsukawa, and Masahiro Anazawa |
Paper: | pp. 682-692 | ||
Estimation of S-Wave Velocity Profiles and Site Amplification Around the K-NET Tsukidate Station, Miyagi Prefecture, with Reference to Large PGA During the 2011 off Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake, Japan |
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Hiroaki Yamanaka, Kosuke Chimoto, Seiji Tsuno, Yadab. P. Dhakal, Mohamed Amrouche, Nobuyuki Yamada, Shun’ichi Fukumoto, and Kiminobu Eto |
Paper: | pp. 693-700 | ||
Strong Motion Records of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and its Attenuation Characteristics |
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Saburoh Midorikawa, Hiroyuki Miura, and Tomohiro Atsumi |
Paper: | pp. 701-710 | ||
Analysis of the Impact of Water-Supply Outages Due to Multiple Factors Caused by the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake |
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Yasuko Kuwata and Tasuku Okamoto |
Topic: | pp. 711-717 | ||
Numerical Analysis of Liquefaction in a River Levee on Soft Cohesive Ground |
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Ryosuke Uzuoka and Keita Semba |
Paper: | pp. 718-725 | ||
Ultimate Response of Superstructure Supported by Spread Foundation During Strong Earthquakes |
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Shuji Tamura, Amane Kuriki, and Kohji Tokimatsu |
Paper: | pp. 726-732 | ||
Performance of Piled Raft Foundation with Grid-Form Ground Improvement During the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake |
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Akihiko Uchida, Kiyoshi Yamashita, and Nobuyuki Odajima |
Paper: | pp. 733-738 | ||
Effects of Horizontal Drainage Layer for Seepage Control on Mitigation of Liquefaction of Levee Body |
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Akihiro Takahashi |
Special Issue on Infectious Disease Control of Natural Disasters
Editorial: | pp. 739-740 | |
Infectious Disease Control of Natural Disasters |
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Sumio Shinoda | ||
Large natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis and typhoons often produce many refugees, forcing them to live inconvenient and unsanitary lives in temporary places of refuge. Even if they can remain in their homes, hygienic conditions may be worsened by interrupted electricity, water, fuel and other lifelines. Winter disasters bring more concerns, such as influenza and cold weather, while those in summer raise problems of diarrhea-related disease. Two of Japan’s largest recent earthquakes, the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, did not cause large infectious disease outbreaks thanks to proper countermeasures. Even so, such outbreaks frequently occur worldwide. One recent example is the 2010 cholera outbreak following an earthquake in Haiti. In an added complication, it is thought that the outbreak was from a foreign source – an Asian epidemic strain of cholera. Many refugees have resulted from ethnic and tribal conflicts in Africa. In a visit to Kenya as a short-term expert for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), I observed a cholera outbreak in a Somali refugee camp. Health facilities at the camp were extremely bad, with the occurrence of drought adding to the suffering in these regions. Many developing countries in tropical and subtropical regions have problems of insufficient food supplies due to recent population growth. Disasters breaking out in these areas leave an unwelcome legacy of undernourishment and malnutrition, especially among young children. In this situation, the number of fatalities due to diarrhea is very high. Such fatalities are fewer in developed countries, but diarrhea in children under 5 years of age in developing countries remains a serious problem. World Health Organization (WHO) statistics published this year show that the global number of deaths in 2010 of children under 5 was some 76 million, 10% of which suffered from diarrhea-related disease. Malaria, pneumonia, premature birth, birth asphyxia and neonatal sepsis are additional causes of these deaths. This special issue details the c...<more> |
Review: | pp. 741-745 | ||
Infectious Disease Risk After the Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Satoshi Mimura, Taro Kamigaki, and Hitoshi Oshitani |
Review: | pp. 746-753 | ||
Communicable Diseases After the Disasters: with the Special Reference to the Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Kentaro Iwata, Goh Ohji, Hideaki Oka, Yoshihiro Takayama, Tetsuji Aoyagi, Yoshiaki Gu, Masumitsu Hatta, Koichi Tokuda, and Mitsuo Kaku |
Review: | pp. 754-758 | ||
Infectious Diseases After Tsunami Aceh (Indonesia) Experience |
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Nasronudin, Juniastuti, Retno H. Oktamia, and Maria I. Lusida |
Paper: | pp. 759-767 | ||
The Origin of Cholera in Haiti |
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Daniele Lantagne, G. Balakrish Nair, Claudio F. Lanata, and Alejandro Cravioto |
Review: | pp. 768-774 | ||
Role of Culture Collections in Disasters |
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Takayuki Ezaki, Masahiro Hayashi, Jiwei Zhang, Takuya Mizuno, Tatsuya Natori, and Kiyofumi Ohkusu |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 775-785 | ||
Sensitivity Studies on a Punching Wall of IRIS_2010 Benchmark Exercise |
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Markku Tuomala, Kim Calonius, Juha Kuutti, Arja Saarenheimo, and Pekka Välikangas |
Paper: | pp. 786-792 | ||
Characteristics of the Behaviors to Collect Information from AvailableMedia in the Students of the Universities Located in the Damaged and Non-Damaged Prefectures Around the Period of the 2011 off Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake |
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Erina Gyoba |
Paper: | pp. 793-802 | ||
Emergency Management: Building an O-D Ranking Model Using GIS Network Analysis |
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Carine J. Yi, Roy S. Park, Osamu Murao, and Eiji Okamoto |
Survey Report: | pp. 803-809 | ||
Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment Anticipating the Earthquake Hazard from Lembang Fault: A Case Study of Bandung Institute of Technology, West Java, Indonesia |
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Farica Edgina Yosafat, Arif Rohman, Didik Wahju Widjaja, and Irwan Meilano |
No.5
(Oct)
Special Issue on Flood Management and Flood Disaster Mitigation Measures
Special Issue on Flood Management and Flood Disaster Mitigation Measures
Editorial: | p. 533 | |
Flood Management and Flood Disaster Mitigation Measures |
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Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Ali Chavoshian, and Shinji Egashira | ||
The 5th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM5) was held on September 27-29, 2011 in Tokyo under the umbrella title “Floods: from risk to opportunity” focused on flood management and disaster mitigation measures in its plenary, oral, and poster sessions. Out of over 250 presented papers, 120 manuscripts – far more than expected – were contributed for post-publication in the Journal of Flood Risk Management, the IAHS Red Book and the Journal of Disaster Research (JDR). Editorial staff members of the JDR, which was independent of ICFM5, attended the conference to survey research activities in related study fields and to announce JDR strategies to participants. The ICHARM scientific committee supervising ICFM5 post-publications is well acquainted with JDR, which is one of the reasons for agreeing on this special issue. The 13 manuscripts presented for consideration by JDR concern the following topics: – Flood forecasting – Basic tools for evaluating inundation flows – Flood management practices and policies – Flood plain management – Relations between human activities and floods These topics range from novel studies to public statements and have been reviewed as papers, reviews, and survey reports. This resulted in 9 papers recommended for the special issue – 4 topics for papers, 1 topic for review, and 4 topics for reports. We thank the authors for their contributions and revisions and the reviewers for their invaluable comments. We also thank the ICHARM committee members for introducing authors to special publications for JDR. |
Review: | pp. 534-539 | ||
Flood Forecasting Module of the Distributed Hydrological Model EasyDHM |
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Xiaohui Lei, Weihong Liao, Yunzhong Jiang, and Hao Wang |
Survey Report: | pp. 540-546 | ||
Effective Flood Control Through Integrated and Collaborative Dam Operation at Three Dams in the Upper Nabari River |
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Takayoshi Matsumura, Hiroshi Kamiya, and Naohiro Yoshida |
Survey Report: | pp. 547-553 | ||
Approaches for the Restoration of the Environment in Kushiro Wetland Contributing to Flood Risk Control |
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Hideyuki Miyafuji, Yasuyuki Hirai, and Yuichi Suzuki |
Paper: | pp. 554-559 | ||
Urban Flood Inundation Model for High Density Building Area |
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Mohammad Farid, Akira Mano, and Keiko Udo |
Paper: | pp. 560-566 | ||
Influence of Detailed Topography when Modeling Flows in Street Junction During Urban Flood |
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Pierre-Henri Bazin, Anne Bessette, Emmanuel Mignot, André Paquier, and Nicolas Rivière |
Paper: | pp. 567-572 | ||
Flood Risk Assessment in Fujian Province, China |
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Changzhi Li, Shuaijie Li, and Xiaotao Cheng |
Paper: | pp. 573-581 | ||
Impact of Climate and Land Use Changes on the Flood Hazard of the Middle Brahmaputra Reach, India |
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Subashisa Dutta and Shyamal Ghosh |
Survey Report: | pp. 582-589 | ||
Tripod Scheme in Flood Disaster Management in Japan |
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Hirotada Matsuki |
Survey Report: | pp. 590-594 | ||
Hydrological Analysis of the Situ Gintung Dam Failure |
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Joko Sujono |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 595-603 | ||
Flood Risk Communication from the Viewpoint of Disaster Prevention Awareness in an Urban Area of Tokyo, Kita Ward |
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Chiharu Mizuki |
Survey Report: | pp. 604-608 | ||
Tsunami Hydrodynamics in the Columbia River |
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Harry Yeh, Elena Tolkova, David Jay, Stefan Talke, and Hermann Fritz |
Paper: | pp. 609-618 | ||
Study on Vertical Motions by Rocking Responses of Reactor Buildings |
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Rikiro Kikuchi, Katsuichirou Hijikata, Takayuki Koyanagi, Mitsugu Mashimo, Shinya Tanaka, Atsushi Suzuki, and Yoshinori Mihara |
Paper: | pp. 619-628 | ||
Impact Tests for IRIS_2010 Benchmark Exercise |
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Ari Vepsä, Arja Saarenheimo, Francois Tarallo, Jean-Mathieu Rambach, and Nebojsa Orbovic |
Paper: | pp. 629-637 | ||
Sensitivity Studies on a Bending Wall of IRIS_2010 Benchmark Exercise |
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Arja Saarenheimo, Markku Tuomala, Pekka Välikangas, and Ari Vepsä |
Paper: | pp. 638-644 | ||
Seismic Performance of Degraded Shear Walls for Long-Term Compliance Periods |
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Luis Ibarra, Biswajit Dasgupta, and Kuang-Tsan Chiang |
Paper: | pp. 645-655 | ||
Design Evaluation Method of Steel-Plate Reinforced Concrete Structure Containment Vessel for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor |
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Tomohiko Yamamoto, Atsushi Katoh, Yoshitaka Chikazawa, and Kazuo Negishi |
No.sp
(Aug)
Special Issue on Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster
Special Issue on Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster
Editorial: | p. 421 | |
Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster |
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Suminao Murakami | ||
Concerned experts and others from a wide range of fields are required to take part in studies on “social” disaster phenomena such as earthquakes and typhoons causing drastic human and property damage and leaving subsequent social and economic destruction. In 2006, the Journal of Disaster Research (JDR) decided to be published as an academic journal in English for global society to help expand research beyond a domestic scope. The March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster – in the 6th year of the journal’s publication, has made an impact both domestically and globally due to the unprecedented earthquake and tsunami and resulting radiation leakage at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. JDR will annually publish special issues on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster beginning in this issue of 2012, for five years, for the purpose of informing, recording and utilizing lessons learned from the disaster. Page charges are in principle free and widespread contributions are welcomed.
I have studied disasters from the viewpoint of a planner. Nobody who is active and living in society is irrelevant to wide-scale events related to such disasters, and I still feel that it is important for people from a variety of fields to visit devastated sites, hear from the people experiencing such disasters and make their own standpoints. In American society, for example, disaster measures against earthquakes and other disasters have been studied involving a wide range of experts and others. After the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe, research groups consisting of wide range of experts came to be formed in Japan and environments developed to produce a multidisciplinary journal such as the JDR. The ultimate goal of planned research is human research. A society is needed in which “human power” can be manifested in all aspects such as reviving reconstruction and rehabilitation. This is because contributions by researchers from widespread fields are anticipated in the future.
This special issue is sponsored by following companies. We deeply appreciate their coop...<more> |
Topic: | pp. 422-425 | ||
Inevitability and Choice |
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Katsuki Takiguchi |
Survey Report: | pp. 426-431 | ||
A Message 15 Days After the 3.11 Earthquake on the Nuclear Accident at Fukushima #1 NPS |
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Yoichi Fuji-ie |
Paper: | pp. 432-438 | ||
A Study on Community-Based Reconstruction from Nuclear Power Plant Disaster - A Case Study of Minamisoma Ota Area in Fukushima - |
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Tomoyuki Furutani, Keisuke Uehara, and Jun Murai |
Paper: | pp. 439-445 | ||
JMA’s Tsunami Warning for the 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami Warning Improvement Plan |
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Tomoaki Ozaki |
Paper: | pp. 446-457 | ||
Tsunami Vertical Evacuation Buildings - Lessons for International Preparedness Following the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami |
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Stuart Fraser, Graham S. Leonard, Hitomi Murakami, and Ichiro Matsuo |
Review: | pp. 458-467 | ||
Evacuation Behaviors in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Nam-Yi Yun and Masanori Hamada |
Paper: | pp. 468-475 | ||
Dynamic Response of Bottom Water Pressure due to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake |
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Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Shusaku Inoue, and Tatsuo Ohmachi |
Paper: | pp. 476-484 | ||
Deformation of Sandy Beach and Inundation on Iwama-Sanuka Coast in Fukushima Prefecture due to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami |
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Takaaki Uda, Kazuya Sakai, Yukiyoshi Hoshigami, and Yasuhito Noshi |
Survey Report: | pp. 485-490 | ||
Site-Specific Behavior of 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami Influenced by Artificial Changes of Coastal Environments |
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Chiharu Mizuki and Kazuomi Hirakawa |
Paper: | pp. 491-499 | ||
Damage Assessment on Electric Power Failures During the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake |
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Gaku Shoji, Dai Takahashi, Takuya Tsukiji, and Satoshi Naba |
Paper: | pp. 500-510 | ||
Proposal on the Effective Use of Relief Helicopters Based on Experience in the Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Hiroyuki Nakachi, Norio Maki, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 511-516 | ||
Anticipatory and Participatory Governance: Revisiting Technology Assessment on Nuclear Energy in Japan |
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Go Yoshizawa |
Paper: | pp. 517-527 | ||
Government’s Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami |
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Atsushi Koresawa |
No.4
(Jun)
Special Issue on Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
Special Issue on Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
Editorial: | p. 343 | |
Business Continuity Plan (BCP) |
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Kenji Watanabe | ||
Among the lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake, there were a large number of new findings, including which preparations functioned as planned and which did not. Now that a year has elapsed since the earthquake disaster, the parties concerned need to reexamine those measures which are yet to be implemented since we should not see the same results after a large scale disaster in the future as those we saw in the past. In this JDR Special Issue on Business Continuity Plan (BCP), I tried to ask for papers not only from academia but also from business fields to make this issue practical and useful to be leveraged for our next steps in preparing for incoming disasters. As a result, this issue obtains papers from various fields from academia to financial businesses and also with several different approaches which includes actual real case studies. Many of papers in this issue focus on intangible part of business continuity activities that is different from the traditional disaster management approaches which have mainly focused on tangibles or hardware reinforcement against natural disasters. Recent wide-area disasters taught us the importance of intangibles and we should start discussions more in details with aspects such as corporate value, emergency transportation & logistics, training & exercises, funding arrangement, and management systems. I hope that discussions and insights in this issue will help our discussions and actions to move forward. Finally, I really thank the authors’ insightful contributions and the referees’ intensive professional advices to make this JDR Special Issue valuable to our society in preparing for incoming disasters. |
Paper: | pp. 344-348 | ||
Ideal Interoperability of Logistics that Enhance Resilience of Supply Chains Based on PPP (Public-Private Partnership) |
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Kenji Watanabe |
Paper: | pp. 349-356 | ||
Key Elements of Functional BCP - Post March 11 Survey Review |
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Shinichi Okabe |
Paper: | pp. 357-362 | ||
BCM Case Study on Financial Companies in Japan: Review of Decision-Making Process to Develop a BCM Helicopter Solution |
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Yasutake Sayanagi |
Paper: | pp. 363-367 | ||
Survey on the Disaster Preparedness and Business Continuity of Companies in the Great East Japan Earthquake - Improving the Business Value by the Information Sharing and Disclosure of BCPs - |
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Yoshiki Hiruma and Kentaro Noda |
Paper: | pp. 368-375 | ||
Support Systems to Maintain Building Function Continuity in the Event of a Disaster - A Case Study Introducing the Concept of Rate of Awareness of Important Information in the Central Monitoring Room |
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Yukihiro Masuda and Koji Akamatsu |
Paper: | pp. 376-385 | ||
Treatment of Unexpected Risk on Business Continuity Management Learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake |
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Hitoshi Kawaguchi |
Paper: | pp. 386-391 | ||
Business Continuity Planning Status of the Private Sector in the Asia Pacific Region |
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Takahiro Ono |
Survey Report: | pp. 392-407 | ||
Form Development for Self-Rating an Organization’s Vulnerability and Resilience to Disruption |
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Yoshihiro Kohno, Yukihiro Masuda, Hironori Nagahashi, Kazuaki Tanaka, and Kuniyuki Tashiro |
No.3
(Apr)
Special Issue on Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals
Special Issue on Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals
Editorial: | p. 251 | |
Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals |
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Hiroomi Akashi | ||
The outbreak of Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Miyazaki Prefecture in 2010 has turned out to be the most striking disaster in the history of animal hygiene in Japan, from the points such as the number of the animals culled and buried or the human resources required until the time of termination. Inquiry committees for FMD countermeasures established by Miyazaki Prefecture and by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries have pointed out the various issues in disease control measures taken during the period starting from the outbreak till the termination. As a result, amendments were made to the Act on Domestic Animal Infectious Diseases Control in April of 2011, and in October, to the Standards of Rearing Hygiene Management. The outbreak of Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Miyazaki Prefecture in 2010 has turned out to be the most striking disaster in the history of animal hygiene in Japan, from the points such as the number of the animals culled and buried or the human resources required until the time of termination. Inquiry committees for FMD countermeasures established by Miyazaki Prefecture and by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries have pointed out the various issues in disease control measures taken during the period starting from the outbreak till the termination. As a result, amendments were made to the Act on Domestic Animal Infectious Diseases Control in April of 2011, and in October, to the Standards of Rearing Hygiene Management. Diseases that cause damage to domestic animals including FMD are presented in this special issue. I hope that this special issue will contribute to the betterment of animal hygiene and furthermore to the enhancement of dietary life. Finally, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the authors and reviewers for their great contributions to this issue. |
Paper: | pp. 252-257 | ||
The 2010 Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreakin Miyazaki Prefecture |
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Hiroomi Akashi |
Paper: | pp. 258-263 | ||
Mechanism of FMD Outbreaks and its Control in Asian Region |
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Kenichi Sakamoto |
Paper: | pp. 264-273 | ||
Disinfection Against the Outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) |
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Junsuke Shirai |
Paper: | pp. 274-280 | ||
Pandemic Influenza |
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Maria Eugenia Vasquez Manriquez, Kentaro Iwata, Motoko Tanaka, and Kyoko Shinya |
Paper: | pp. 281-288 | ||
Equine Influenza: Prevention and Control |
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Takashi Yamanaka, Takashi Kondo, and Tomio Matsumura |
Paper: | pp. 289-296 | ||
Viral Infectious Diseases in Wild Animals in Japan |
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Hiroshi Shimoda, Yumiko Nagao, Masayuki Shimojima, and Ken Maeda |
Paper: | pp. 297-302 | ||
Bovine Coronavirus Infection: Pathology and Interspecies Transmission |
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Toru Kanno |
Paper: | pp. 303-312 | ||
Streptococcus suis: An Emerging Biothreat |
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Tsutomu Sekizaki |
Review: | pp. 313-318 | ||
Mouse Model of Abortion Induced by Brucella abortus Infection |
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Masahisa Watarai |
Review: | pp. 319-323 | ||
Cutaneous Papillomatosis in Cattle |
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Shinichi Hatama |
Review: | pp. 324-331 | ||
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Japan: Outbreaks, Control Measures, and Roles of Wild Birds |
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Kenji Tsukamoto |
No.2
(Feb)
Crisis Management and Recovery Following Tokyo Metropolitan Near Field Earthquake Disaster
Crisis Management and Recovery Following Tokyo Metropolitan Near Field Earthquake Disaster
Editorial: | pp. 125-126 | |
Crisis Management and Recovery Following Tokyo Metropolitan Near Field Earthquake Disaster |
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Haruo Hayashi, Keiko Tamura, and Munenari Inoguchi | ||
It is expected that Tokyo Metropolitan area and her vicinity may be jolted by a devastating earthquake with a 70% chance for the next 30 years. The worstcase scenario for Tokyo Metropolitan earthquake is a M7.3 earthquake beneath northern Tokyo Bay. According to the Central Disaster Prevention Council, A total of 12,000 people will be dead and economic losses will exceed 112 trillion yen. Areas with a seismic intensity of JMA 6 – and more will include Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama, and Kanagawa, resulting in 25 million victims – 20% of Japan’s total population. No country has not experienced such a large-scale earthquake in recorded history, but it does not mean such a disaster will not occur. In order to cope with such an unprecedented disaster, we must face and solve a lot of new problems in addition to all of existing problems appeared in the past disasters. Thus it is mandatory to take a holistic approach to implement effectively and seamlessly emergency response, relief, and long-term recovery. With the severity of possible consequences due to this earthquake, a special project, entitled as “Special Project for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation in Tokyo Metropolitan Area” (2007-2011), is commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (MEXT), This special project consists of three subprojects; Seismology, Earthquake Engineering, and Crisis Management and Recovery. This subproject considers Tokyo Metropolitan Earthquake as a national crisis occurred in the Tokyo metropolitan area. All the available knowledge of disaster researchers should be gathered from nationwide, including both emergency response and long-term recovery to minimize damage and losses. This project examines measures for improving the capacity for the people from disaster management organizations to react to crisis and help rebuilding life recovery of disaster victims. An information-sharing platform will be proposed to comprehensively manage individual disaster response and recovery measures. “Training and exercise systems” will be introduced to empower local capacity to mitigate and recover from disaster b...<more> |
Paper: | pp. 127-134 | ||
Analysis of Disaster Victims’ Decision-Making in the Process of Reconstruction Housing |
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Kishie Shigekawa, Satoshi Tanaka, and Masasuke Takashima |
Paper: | pp. 135-146 | ||
Examining the Scheme for Damage Inspection of Non-Wooden Apartment Buildings for Issuing Disaster Victim Certificates |
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Kaoru Mizukoshi, Yosuke Nakajima, Yoe Masuzawa, Satoshi Tanaka, and Kishie Shigekawa |
Paper: | pp. 147-159 | ||
Analysis of Description of Local Disaster Management Plan for Smooth and Effective Wide-Area Support System During Large-Scale Disaster |
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Muneyoshi Numada, Shinya Kondo, Masashi Inoue, and Kimiro Meguro |
Paper: | pp. 160-172 | ||
Implementation of Demonstration of Information Linkage Supposing the Tokyo Metropolitan Near Field Earthquake Disaster |
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Yasunori Hada, Shinya Kondo, Kimiro Meguro, Miho Ohara,Shinsaku Zama, Makoto Endo, Keiji Kobayashi, Takeyasu Suzuki, Itsuki Noda, Hiroki Shimora, Ikuo Takeuchi, Satoshi Kobayashi, and Jumpei Arakawa |
Paper: | pp. 173-183 | ||
Function of Emergency Road Networks During the Post-Earthquake Process of Lifeline Systems Restoration |
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Gaku Shoji and Ayumi Toyota |
Paper: | pp. 184-189 | ||
Improvement of Local Capability Under Lifeline Disruptions by Construction of Distributed Self-Sustaining Zone – Based on Research of Disaster Base Hospitals in Tokyo Capital Area |
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Keiko Inagaki and Satoru Sadohara |
Paper: | pp. 190-202 | ||
A Basic Study of Open Space Information as Social Infrastructure for Wide-Range Cooperation in Large-Scale Seismic Disaster |
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Takashi Furuya, Munenari Inoguchi, Go Urakawa, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 203-214 | ||
Economic Recovery Scenario Planning for a Tokyo Inland Earthquake |
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Shingo Nagamatsu and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 215-226 | ||
Ten Years of Pre-Disaster Community Development for Post-Disaster Recovery in Tokyo |
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Taro Ichiko |
Paper: | pp. 227-238 | ||
How to Optimize the Urban Recovery After Earthquake Disaster – Preparedness for Recovery from the Next Tokyo Earthquake – |
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Itsuki Nakabayashi |
No.1
(Jan)
Multi-disciplinary Hazard Reduction from Earthquakes and Volcanoes in Indonesia
Multi-disciplinary Hazard Reduction from Earthquakes and Volcanoes in Indonesia
Editorial: | p. 3 | |
Multi-disciplinary Hazard Reduction from Earthquakes and Volcanoes in Indonesia |
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Kenji Satake and Yujiro Ogawa | ||
Natural disasters and their mitigation are global issues, especially in Asian countries, which have suffered from such geohazards as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions and such hydrometeorological hazards as typhoons, cyclones, storm surges, and floods. Research on natural hazards and disasters is multidisciplinary. Scientists from a wide variety of disciplines study hazards, their causes, their mechanisms, and prediction. Engineers study infrastructures and measures to reduce vulnerability. Social and humanitarian scientists study cultural and societal aspects of disasters. Educators study effective ways to raise people’s awareness and action. In addition to such research activities, practitioners work to implement the results of scientific research into practical policymaking. This special issue of JDR contains 12 papers on multidisciplinary studies concerning geohazards in Indonesia taken from a Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) project supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). SATREPS projects focus on both the scientific aspect, namely, acquiring new knowledge, and the Official Development Aids (ODA) aspect, namely, implementing such knowledge in societal applications. Following the first review article, which is a project overview, the next four papers report findings on natural hazards – the slip rate on the Lembang fault in Java, tsunami simulation for Java’s Palabuhanratu, the Sinabung volcano eruption in Sumatra, and methods of predicting and evaluating eruptions. One paper reports engineering studies on tsunami disaster mitigation in Padang city and two social science papers present hazards in the contexts of communities and human mobility. Two papers on disaster education cover disaster education development since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the use of tsunami simulation in disaster education. The last research paper and review article deal with policymaking related to the 2010 Mentawai and 2011 Japan tsunamis, respectively. All of these papers,...<more> |
Review: | pp. 4-11 | ||
Multi-Disciplinary Hazard Reduction from Earthquakes and Volcanoes in Indonesia |
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Kenji Satake and Hery Harjono |
Paper: | pp. 12-18 | ||
Slip Rate Estimation of the Lembang Fault West Java from Geodetic Observation |
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Irwan Meilano, Hasanuddin Z. Abidin, Heri Andreas, Irwan Gumilar, Dina Sarsito, Rahma Hanifa, Rino, Hery Harjono, Teruyuki Kato, Fumiaki Kimata, and Yoichi Fukuda |
Paper: | pp. 19-25 | ||
Tsunami Hazard Mitigation at Palabuhanratu, Indonesia |
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Yuichiro Tanioka, Hamzah Latief, Haris Sunendar, Aditya Riadi Gusman, and Shunichi Koshimura |
Paper: | pp. 26-36 | ||
Methods for Eruption Prediction and Hazard Evaluation at Indonesian Volcanoes |
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Masato Iguchi, Surono, Takeshi Nishimura, Muhamad Hendrasto, Umar Rosadi, Takahiro Ohkura, Hetty Triastuty, Ahmad Basuki, Agoes Loeqman, Sukir Maryanto, Kazuhiro Ishihara, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Setsuya Nakada, and Natsumi Hokanishi |
Paper: | pp. 37-47 | ||
Evaluation of Volcanic Activity at Sinabung Volcano, After More Than 400 Years of Quiet |
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Muhamad Hendrasto, Surono, Agus Budianto, Kristianto, Hetty Triastuty, Nia Haerani, Ahmad Basuki, Yasa Suparman, Sofyan Primulyana, Oktory Prambada, Agoes Loeqman, Novianti Indrastuti, Aditya Sebastian Andreas, Umar Rosadi, Sucahyo Adi, Masato Iguchi, Takahiro Ohkura, Setsuya Nakada, and Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto |
Paper: | pp. 48-64 | ||
Tsunami Disaster Mitigation by Integrating Comprehensive Countermeasures in Padang City, Indonesia |
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Fumihiko Imamura, Abdul Muhari, Erick Mas, Mulyo Harris Pradono, Joachim Post, and Megumi Sugimoto |
Paper: | pp. 65-74 | ||
Social Flux and Disaster Management: An Essay on the Construction of an Indonesian Model for Disaster Management and Reconstruction |
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Yoshimi Nishi and Hiroyuki Yamamoto |
Paper: | pp. 75-82 | ||
Striving to Reduce Disaster Risk: Vulnerable Communities with Low Levels of Preparedness in Indonesia |
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Deny Hidayati |
Paper: | pp. 83-91 | ||
Disaster Education in Indonesia: Learning How It Works from Six Years of Experience After Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004 |
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Irina Rafliana |
Paper: | pp. 92-101 | ||
Tsunami Evacuation Simulation for Disaster Education and City Planning |
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Yozo Goto, Muzailin Affan, Agussabti, Yudha Nurdin, Diyah K. Yuliana, and Ardiansyah |
Paper: | pp. 102-106 | ||
The Influence of Mentawai Tsunami to Public Policy on Tsunami Warning in Indonesia |
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Pariatmono |
Review: | pp. 107-115 | ||
Main Features of Government’s Initial Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami |
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Atsushi Koresawa |
Vol.6 (2011)
No.6
(Dec)
Special Issue on Fire and Emergency Evacuation in a High-rise Building
Special Issue on Fire and Emergency Evacuation in a High-rise Building
Paper: | pp. 541-550 | ||
Concepts of Fire Safety Provisions of Means of Escape andEvacuation Safety Plan in High-Rise Building |
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Ichiro Hagiwara |
Paper: | pp. 551-557 | ||
Smoke Control System for High-Rise Buildings in Japan |
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Shuji Moriyama |
Paper: | pp. 558-567 | ||
Fire Resistive Design for Preventing Upward Fire Spread |
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Kenichi Ikeda |
Paper: | pp. 568-580 | ||
Adequacy of Safe Egress Design Codes for Supertall Buildings |
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Edgar C. L. Pang and Wan-Ki Chow |
Paper: | pp. 581-590 | ||
A Research of the Elevator Evacuation Performance and Strategies for Taipei 101 Financial Center |
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Shen-Wen Chien and Wei-Jou Wen |
Paper: | pp. 591-599 | ||
Study on Transportation Efficiency of Evacuation Using Elevators in Comparison with Evacuation Using Stairsin a High-Rise Building – Is Use of Elevator in Evacuation Really Effective for General People? – |
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Ai Sekizawa and Shinji Nakahama |
Paper: | pp. 600-609 | ||
Design of Evacuation Systems for Elevator Evacuation in High-Rise Buildings |
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Daniel Nilsson and Axel Jönsson |
Paper: | pp. 610-619 | ||
Surveys and Analyses on Human Behavior in the New York World Trade Center Disasters in 1993 and 2001 |
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Yoshiyuki Yoshida |
Paper: | pp. 620-628 | ||
How did People Respond and Evacuate in WTC Twin Towers in 2001? |
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Rita F. Fahy |
Topic: | pp. 629-643 | ||
Fire and Smoke Protection Measures for High-Rise Buildings |
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Suminao Murakami and Yoshiteru Murosaki |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 645-667 | ||
Seismic Isolation with No Strain Energy – Research on New Seismic Isolation System with No Resonance Characteristics – |
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Mitsuo Miyazaki, Yukihiro Nishimura, and Tadashi Mizue |
Paper: | pp. 668-689 | ||
Development of the EDR-Spring Element Using Foamed Polymer Materials and the Design of NSE-Isolated Buildings Using EDR-Spring Elements |
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Mitsuo Miyazaki and Yukihiro Nishimura |
No.5
(Oct)
Managing Catastrophic Technological Risks and Role of Technology Assessment (TA) in the Post 3/11 Society
Managing Catastrophic Technological Risks and Role of Technology Assessment (TA) in the Post 3/11 Society
Editorial: | pp. 473-475 | |
Managing Catastrophic Technological Risks and Role of Technology Assessment (TA) in the Post 3/11 Society |
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Tatsujiro Suzuki and Go Yoshizawa | ||
The nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCo)’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent Tsunami, is probably the worst “catastrophic technological risk” ever experienced by Japan. Whether this serious accident could have been prevented or managed better is the key question that we need to pursue. Technology Assessment (TA), which is intended to help decision making by assessing possible societal impacts of particular technology, can play significant role in managing catastrophic technological risks by providing an objective assessment of technological risks before it happens, while it is happening and even after the accident. In this special issue on TA, we are fortunate to have papers and reviews from both distinguished experts as well as young scholars. The variety of the subject is also very useful to see how TA can be applied under the different situations. In particular, in the post 3.11 society, we believe it is a good occasion to consider institutionalization of TA in Japan. |
Paper: | pp. 476-481 | ||
Current Situation of Synthetic Biology in Japan |
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Yusuke Mori and Go Yoshizawa |
Review: | pp. 482-485 | ||
The Macondo Oil Field Disaster |
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Michael C. Lynch |
Review: | pp. 486-497 | ||
Green Revolution: Pathways to Food Security in an Era of Climate Variability and Change? |
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Netra Chhetri and Pashupati Chaudhary |
Paper: | pp. 498-505 | ||
Internal Security Issues Related to Automatic System Malfunction and a Model to Explain Foresight of Experts and Non-Experts |
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Soichiro Morishita, and Hiroshi Yokoi |
Development Report: | pp. 506-513 | ||
Approach to Environmental, Health and Safety Issues of Nanotechnology in Japan |
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Masahiro Takemura, Go Yoshizawa, and Tatsujiro Suzuki |
Paper: | pp. 514-521 | ||
Replicating GM Viruses in Cancer Therapy; A Conflict of Emotions? |
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Ruth Mampuys and Sabine Roeser |
Review: | pp. 522-527 | ||
Technology Assessment in the EU Institutions |
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Michael D. Rogers |
No.4
(Aug)
Special Issue on Understanding Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
News & Communications
Special Issue on Understanding Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
Editorial: | p. 371 | |
Understanding Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases |
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Fumiko Kasuga | ||
Recent developments in medicine and anti-microbial treatment based on intensive research on basic microbiology have successfully been controlling many infectious diseases to be nonfatal. As stated by Dr. Nobuhiko Okabe in the first section of this issue, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases still threaten human lives and health both in developing and industrialized countries. A multiprefectural outbreak of enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) O111 and O157 due to raw beef consumption took the lives of victims, including young children, earlier this year in Japan, following which people worldwide were panicked by news from Europe of a huge outbreak of EHEC O104. Infectious diseases result from interaction between pathogens and humans including our behaviors. The Journal of Disaster Research has already drawn readers’ attention to infectious diseases in its special issue on “Our Social Activities Are Always Related to Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases,” with Guest Editor Dr. Masayuki Saijo in JDR Vol.4, No.5, October, 2009. That issue reviewed the background behind infectious disease emergence and reemergence using examples of viral diseases that could cause serious public health concerns, and emphasized the need for preparedness and responses, including against bioterrorism. The present issue again reminds readers of the threat of infectious diseases by demonstrating bacterial and viral infections, focusing more on basic knowledge about these pathogens. Disease history, and epidemiology and the microbiological nature of pathogens and infection pathways are summarized. Treatment, vaccination and other control measures, and law and other social systems for controlling disease are also reviewed. We believe that a better understanding of pathogens will enable society to build better strategies for overcoming problems with emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, such as appropriate preventive measures, treatment and control for preventing outbreaks from expanding. We also hope that such considerations are also useful to disaster control experts in other areas. I would like to express my si...<more> |
Review: | pp. 372-380 | ||
Understanding of Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases (EID and REID) |
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Nobuhiko Okabe |
Review: | pp. 381-389 | ||
Ebola and Marburg Viruses |
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Eri Nakayama and Ayato Takada |
Review: | pp. 390-397 | ||
Henipavirus Infections - An Expanding Zoonosis from Fruit Bats |
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Chieko Kai and Misako Yoneda |
Review: | pp. 398-403 | ||
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza |
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Yasuo Suzuki |
Review: | pp. 404-412 | ||
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) |
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Akihiko Kawana |
Review: | pp. 413-420 | ||
West Nile Virus : Understanding its Past, Present, and Future |
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Yusuke Sayama and Tetsuya Mizutani |
Review: | pp. 421-425 | ||
Strategy for Prevention of HIV-1 Transmission |
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Saori Matsuoka and Teturo Matano |
Review: | pp. 426-434 | ||
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli - Its Control from a Viewpoint of Food Safety - |
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Hiroshi Asakura, Yoshika Momose, and Fumiko Kasuga |
Review: | pp. 435-442 | ||
Legionella Pneumonia |
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Kazuhiro Tateda |
Review: | pp. 443-450 | ||
Global Threats and the Control of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis |
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Kazuo Kobayashi, Manabu Ato, and Sohkichi Matsumoto |
Regular Papers
Review: | pp. 451-458 | ||
New Approaches for Tackling Foodborne Infections |
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Yuko Kumagai, Mamoru Noda, and Fumiko Kasuga |
News & Communications
News: | pp. 459-466 | ||
Nuclear Accidents and Leakage of Radioactive Materials at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant |
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Editorial Office |
No.3
(Jun)
Regular papers
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 281-298 | ||
A Study on the Response Instability of Seismically Isolated Structures Affected by Ground Inclination During Earthquakes Part 1 : Estimation of Ground Inclination During Earthquakes and the Influence of Static Ground Inclination |
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Mitsuo Miyazaki and Yukihiro Nishimura |
Paper: | pp. 299-312 | ||
A Study on the Response Instability of Seismically Isolated Structures Affected by Ground Inclination During Earthquakes Part 2 : Influence of Dynamic Ground Inclination |
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Mitsuo Miyazaki and Yukihiro Nishimura |
Review: | pp. 313-320 | ||
Prospects of Debris Flow Studies from Constitutive Relations to Governing Equations |
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Shinji Egashira |
Paper: | pp. 321-330 | ||
Recent Anomalous Lightning Occurrences in Alaska - the Case of June 2005 - |
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Murad Ahmed Farukh, Hiroshi Hayasaka, and Keiji Kimura |
Paper: | pp. 331-342 | ||
Disasters, Diasporas and Host Communities: Insights in the Aftermath of the Haiti Earthquake |
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Ann-Margaret Esnard and Alka Sapat |
Paper: | pp. 343-355 | ||
Characterization of Lightning Occurrence in Alaska Using Various Weather Indices for Lightning Forecasting |
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Murad Ahmed Farukh, Hiroshi Hayasaka, and Keiji Kimura |
No.2
(Apr)
Special Issue on Safety Science: Comprehensive Approach to Social Disasters and Natural Disasters
Special Issue on Safety Science: Comprehensive Approach to Social Disasters and Natural Disasters
Editorial: | p. 175 | |
Safety Science: Comprehensive Approach to Social Disasters and Natural Disasters |
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Yoshiaki Kawata | ||
In April 2010, the new Kansai University Safety Science Faculty started with 16 professors, to be increased to 25 from April 2011. Just half are social science researchers and the others natural science researchers. With natural disasters and accidents in Japan growing increasingly complex, conventional analysis on how to reduce disaster damage and avoid accidents has become increasingly inadequate. We need an interdisciplinary approach to solve problems underlying cooperative research.
A representative disaster is the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake, which killed 6,434 people and injured 40,000. It generated economic losses of $102.5 billion, 2.5% of Japan’s GDP at the time.
A representative accident is the 2007 Amagasaki JR Fukuchiyama Line rail crash, which killed 107, including the driver, and injured 562. The direct cause of the accident was speeding - the speed limit on the curve where the train left the tracks was 70 km/h, but the train was moving at 116 km/h. The most important indirect reason was the delayed implementation of a new ATS that should have been put in place from the viewpoint of cost management. Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB) functions will be improved as a result of this accident. In the US, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) operates independent of US government agencies - a trend expected to be followed by the JTSB.
Both provided many potentially valuable disaster lessons, some of which this journal introduces. Other risk-related topics in this volume include tsunami information systems, information law, disaster education, and mental health and psychological approaches to the behavior of young people in the face of disaster, analyzed by our faculty members based on original viewpoints. Effort on these researches has to be continued to improve “Safety Science Study” and promote following social action to improve our social structure toward a safe and secure society.
We thank the authors for their earnest contributions and the reviewers for their invaluable advice on improving the quality of this special issue of JDR.
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Paper: | pp. 176-184 | ||
Downfall of Tokyo due to Devastating Compound Disaster |
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Yoshiaki Kawata |
Paper: | pp. 185-192 | ||
Transport Accident Investigation Status and Issues |
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Seiji Abe |
Paper: | pp. 193-203 | ||
Disaster Prevention in Industrial Society - Principal Features of Disaster |
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Mamoru Ozawa and Yoji Shibutani |
Paper: | pp. 204-211 | ||
Mental Health of Managers of Small and Medium Enterprises as Seen from the Viewpoint of Risk Management |
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Shin-ya Kaneko, Hiroki Ogyu, Olivier Torres, and Katsuyuki Kamei |
Paper: | pp. 212-218 | ||
Verification of Disaster Management Information on the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Using Virtual Tsunami Warning System |
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Tomoyuki Takahashi and Tomohiro Konuma |
Paper: | pp. 219-229 | ||
Affect Heuristic with “Good-Bad” Criterion and Linguistic Representation in Risk Judgments |
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Shoji Tsuchida |
Paper: | pp. 230-235 | ||
Comparison of International and Domestic Methods of Providing Housing After Disasters |
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Kenji Koshiyama |
Paper: | pp. 236-243 | ||
Logic of and Systems for Volunteer Disaster Relief Activities in Japan: Current Situations and Challenges 15 Years After the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake |
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Mashiho Suga |
Paper: | pp. 244-252 | ||
Problems and Recommendations on Current Information Legislation in Japan |
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Kazuhiko Takano |
Paper: | pp. 253-257 | ||
Changes in Labor Accident Risk with Aging |
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Takahiro Nakamura, Motoya Takagi, and Shinnosuke Usui |
Paper: | pp. 258-270 | ||
Participatory Disaster Management Learning Built on the Theory of Legitimate Peripheral Participation |
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Hideyuki Shiroshita and Katsuya Yamori |
No.1
(Feb)
Special Issue on Protecting Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities from Disasters
Special Issue on Protecting Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities from Disasters
Editorial: | p. 3 | |
Protecting Cultural Heritage and Historic Cities from Disasters |
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Kazuyuki Izuno and Takeyuki Okubo | ||
Natural disasters have damaged or destroyed many invaluable cultural heritages. How to mitigate these losses, however, is difficult question. If we cannot save human lives, of course we cannot save cultural heritages from disasters. This requires more sophisticated countermeasures than conventional disaster reduction methodologies. This special issue of JDR provides many examples of such mitigation in historical cities which have expanded with cultural heritages as nuclei. Cultural heritage disaster mitigation lies somewhere between the fields of cultural preservation and the disaster mitigation engineering. The first two review papers focus on the importance of protecting cultural heritage from natural disasters and the history of this issue from the viewpoints of both engineering and humanities. Twelve papers discuss engineering problems and the planning of cultural heritages preservation, cover issues such as the seismic performance of traditional wooden structures, the vulnerability of historical masonry structures, disaster reduction in slope failures around cultural heritages, disaster risk analysis at historical cities, fire prevention in historical cities, and urban planning taking cultural heritage into consideration. This issue closes with a tutorial paper showing the techniques and basics of cultural heritage disaster mitigation. It serves as a practical handbook on mitigating disasters surrounding cultural heritages and historical cities. We expect contributors to this field to increase in the near future due to the importance and urgency of cultural heritage disaster mitigation. We thank the authors for their earnest contributions and the reviewers for their invaluable advice on improving the quality of this special issue of JDR. |
Review: | pp. 4-10 | ||
Protection of Cultural Heritage from Post-Earthquake Fire |
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Kenzo Toki |
Review: | pp. 11-17 | ||
Cultural Heritage Disaster Management Research in the Human Sciences |
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Akihisa Yoshikoshi |
Paper: | pp. 18-25 | ||
Earthquake Response Analysis of Japanese Traditional Wooden Structures Considering Member Aging |
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Yu Ooka, Kazuyuki Izuno, and Kenzo Toki |
Paper: | pp. 26-35 | ||
Dynamic Characteristic Investigation of a Historical Masonry Building and Surrounding Ground in Kathmandu |
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Hari Ram Parajuli, Junji Kiyono, Masatoshi Tatsumi, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Hisashi Umemura, Hitoshi Taniguchi, Kenzo Toki, Aiko Furukawa, and Prem Nath Maskey |
Paper: | pp. 36-43 | ||
Finite Element Modeling of Cyclic Out-of-Plane Response of Masonry Walls Retrofitted by Inserting Inclined Stainless Steel Bars |
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Kshitij C. Shrestha, Takuya Nagae, and Yoshikazu Araki |
Paper: | pp. 44-50 | ||
Nonlinear Behavior of Masonry Arch Bridge Under Ground Deformation |
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Yusuke Kishi, Katsuyoshi Nozaka, and Kazuyuki Izuno |
Paper: | pp. 51-69 | ||
Proposal of a Numerical Simulation Method for Elastic, Failure and Collapse Behaviors of Structures and its Application to Seismic Response Analysis of Masonry Walls |
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Aiko Furukawa, Junji Kiyono, and Kenzo Toki |
Paper: | pp. 70-79 | ||
Slope Monitoring System at a Slope Behind an Important Cultural Asset |
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Kazunari Sako, Ryoichi Fukagawa, and Tomoaki Satomi |
Paper: | pp. 80-87 | ||
Hydrological Environment in Subsurface Steep Slope - Groundwater Flow Passageway on Slope Behind Kiyomizudera - |
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Junko Nakaya, Kazunari Sako, Shunsuke Mitsutani, and Ryoichi Fukagawa |
Paper: | pp. 88-95 | ||
Cultural Heritage Sites in Shiga Prefecture in Danger of Natural Disasters |
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Yuko Ishida, Ryoichi Fukagawa, Kazunari Sako, Ikuo Yasukawa, and Koji Ikeda |
Paper: | pp. 96-108 | ||
The Meaning of “Fuchi” and the Scenic Landscape Role in Historic Kyoto’s Disaster Mitigation - “Fuchi” Use Until Scenic Landscape Setup Under the Old City Planning Act and Scenic Landscape Regulation Management in Kyoto - |
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Nobuo Fukushima, Naoko Itaya, Kanefusa Masuda, Takeyuki Okubo, and Masafumi Yamasaki |
Paper: | pp. 109-118 | ||
Survey Analysis of Wooded Areas Around Temples and Former Samurai Residences in Urban Areas - Their Shapes and Sizes Seen from Their Potential Function as Firebreak Belts |
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Masahiko Takamatsu and Takeyuki Okubo |
Paper: | pp. 119-131 | ||
Study on Disaster Risk Assessment of Cultural Heritage and Road Network Improvement in Historical City |
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Yoongho Ahn, Hiroshi Tsukaguchi, Keiichi Ogawa, and Kota Tanaka |
Paper: | pp. 132-141 | ||
Effective Planning of Road Monitoring Systems for Cultural Heritage Disaster Mitigation |
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Keiichi Ogawa, Hiroshi Tsukaguchi, Yoongho Ahn, and Makoto Kawai |
Tutorial: | pp. 142-153 | ||
Handbook of Countermeasures to Protect Cultural Heritages Located in Foothills from Natural Disasters |
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Takeyuki Okubo and Kazuyuki Izuno |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 155-164 | ||
AREVA’s Fatigue Concept - An Integrated and Multidisciplinary Approach to the Fatigue Assessment of NPP Components |
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Jürgen Rudolph, Steffen Bergholz, Benedikt Heinz, and Nikolaus Wirtz |
Vol.5 (2010)
No.6
(Dec)
Special Issue on ICT Based Disaster Resilient Society
Special Issue on ICT Based Disaster Resilient Society
Editorial: | pp. 619-621 | |
ICT Based Disaster Resilient Society |
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Haruo Hayashi and Mitsuhiro Higashida | ||
This special issue on ICT Based Disaster Resilient Society features ten articles resulting from a collaborative research project on natural disaster management conducted by the Kyoto University Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) researchers and information and communication technology (ICT) experts from Nippon Telegram and Telegraph Co. Ltd (NTT). For the last two years, they have been studying on how to make society more disaster resilient through proper ICT use focusing on cloud computing, the 20th century’s greatest invention. In part of a formal research partnership agreement signed in 2005, Kyoto University and NTT have been promoting new research in disaster management. The first two years showed with little concrete achievement beyond implementing one small research project - not exactly what the agreement envisioned. In 2008, volunteers from Kyoto University and NTT meeting to determine the reason found a tactical mistake - starting by picking projects collaboratively assuming that DPRI and NTT’s disaster management research section shared the same vision and understanding of disaster management. Fundamental differences in research focus also raised problems in finding suitable collaborative research activities. Briefly, at least three tiers existed for promoting ICT based disaster resilient society: 1) the ICT system infrastructure, 2) the operating system, and 3) individual applications in making society more disaster resilient. NTT was focusing on the first two tiers and DPRI on the last top tier. With this common understanding clarified, collaborative research was set in 2008 on ICT Based Disaster Resilient Society to formulate common ground between the two groups of researchers sharing a common operational picture. One result was a 2009 book from Nikkei BP Publications disseminating to the general public what disaster resilient society looks like, what can be done, and how to do it. This special issue goes one step further by delivering these research efforts to a worldwide audience. The first three articles, from the NTT group, describe the ICT basis for makin...<more> |
Paper: | pp. 622-626 | ||
Realization of Resilient Society with Information Technology Revolution |
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Katsumi Iwatsuki and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 627-635 | ||
Next Generation ICT Services Underlying the Resilient Society |
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Yuji Maeda, Mitsuhiro Higashida, Katsumi Iwatsuki, Takao Handa, Yoichi Kihara, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 636-641 | ||
Risk Management and Intelligence Management During Emergency |
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Mitsuhiro Higashida, Yuji Maeda, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 642-649 | ||
Neural Network-Based Risk Assessment of Artificial Fill Slope in Residential Urban Region |
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Toshitaka Kamai |
Paper: | pp. 650-656 | ||
Application of ICT to Contribution to Resilient Society Against Landslides |
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Hiroshi Fukuoka |
Paper: | pp. 657-665 | ||
Development of a Framework for the Flood Economic Risk Assessment Using Vector GIS Data |
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Kenichiro Kobayashi, Kaoru Takara, Mitsugu Funada, and Yukiko Takeuchi |
Paper: | pp. 666-676 | ||
Adapting the Demographic Transition in Preparation for the Tokai-Tonankai-Nankai Earthquake |
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Haili Chen, Norio Maki, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 677-686 | ||
Implementation Technology for a Disaster Response Support System for Local Government |
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Michinori Hatayama and Shigeru Kakumoto |
Paper: | pp. 687-696 | ||
Building Comprehensive Disaster Victim Support System |
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Go Urakawa, Haruo Hayashi, Keiko Tamura, Munenari Inoguchi, Kei Horie, Mitsuhiro Higashida, and Ryota Hamamoto |
Paper: | pp. 697-705 | ||
Risk Management for Hospitals Using the Incident Report |
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Yurie Takeda, Mitsuhiro Higashida, Yoshimasa Nagao, Manabu Yotsubashi, Shosuke Sato, and Haruo Hayashi |
Regular Papers
Development Report: | pp. 707-711 | ||
OECD/NEA Activities to Support Long Term Operation |
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Andrei Blahoianu and Alejandro Huerta |
Paper: | pp. 712-719 | ||
Accidental Drop Load Effects on Buried Structures |
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Mehdi S. Zarghamee and Keng-Wit Lim |
No.5
(Oct)
Special Issue on Building Local Capacity for Long-term Disaster Resilience Part 2
Special Issue on Building Local Capacity for Long-term Disaster Resilience Part 2
Editorial: | pp. 487-493 | |
Toward an Enhanced Concept of Disaster Resilience: A Commentary on Behalf of the Editorial Committee |
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William Siembieda | ||
1. Introduction This Special Issue (Part 2) expands upon the theme “Building Local Capacity for Long-term Disaster Resilience” presented in Special Issue Part 1 (JDR Volume 5, Number 2, April 2010) by examining the evolving concept of disaster resilience and providing additional reflections upon various aspects of its meaning. Part 1 provided a mixed set of examples of resiliency efforts, ranging from administrative challenges of integrating resilience into recovery to the analysis of hazard mitigation plans directed toward guiding local capability for developing resiliency. Resilience was broadly defined in the opening editorial of Special Issue Part 1 as “the capacity of a community to: 1) survive a major disaster, 2) retain essential structure and functions, and 3) adapt to post-disaster opportunities for transforming community structure and functions to meet new challenges.” In this editorial essay we first explore in Section 2 the history of resilience and then locate it within current academic and policy debates. Section 3 presents summaries of the papers in this issue. 2. Why is Resilience a Contemporary Theme? There is growing scholarly and policy interest in disaster resilience. In recent years, engineers [1], sociologists [2], geographers [3], economists [4], public policy analysts [5, 6], urban planners [7], hazards researchers [8], governments [9], and international organizations [10] have all contributed to the literature about this concept. Some authors view resilience as a mechanism for mitigating disaster impacts, with framework objectives such as resistance, absorption, and restoration [5]. Others, who focus on resiliency indicators, see it as an early warning system to assess community resiliency status [3, 8]. Recently, it has emerged as a component of social risk management that seeks to minimize social welfare loss from catastrophic disasters [6]. Manyena [11] traces scholarly exploration of resilience as an operational concept back at least five decades. Interest in resilience began in the 1940s with studies of children...<more> |
Paper: | pp. 494-502 | ||
How Business Flow Diagram’s Improve Continuity of Operations Planning |
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Go Urakawa and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 503-508 | ||
Building Disaster Resilient Organizations in the Non-Government (NGO) Sector |
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Richard K. Eisner |
Paper: | pp. 509-516 | ||
Urban Technological Risk Characterization and Management: Towards a Better Understanding of Non-Natural Threats in Merida City, Venezuela |
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Alejandro Liñayo |
Paper: | pp. 517-525 | ||
Seismic Regulations Versus Modern Architectural and Urban Configurations |
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L. Teresa Guevara-Perez |
Paper: | pp. 526-534 | ||
An Assessment of Coastal Zone Hazard Mitigation Plans in Texas |
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Jung Eun Kang, Walter Gillis Peacock, and Rahmawati Husein |
Paper: | pp. 535-542 | ||
California’s Natural Hazard Zonation Policies for Land-Use Planning and Development |
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Charles R. Real |
Paper: | pp. 543-551 | ||
Strategic Disaster Reduction Planning with Government Stakeholder Collaboration - A Case Study in Nara and Kyoto, Japan |
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Norio Maki, Keiko Tamura, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 552-564 | ||
Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning: Local Capacity Building Through Pre-Event Planning |
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Sandy Meyer, Eugene Henry, Roy E.Wright, and Cynthia A. Palmer |
Paper: | pp. 565-576 | ||
Working Together, Building Capacity - A Case Study of Civil Defence Emergency Management in New Zealand |
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Bo-Yao Lee |
Paper: | pp. 577-590 | ||
Chile’s 2010 M8.8 Earthquake and Tsunami: Initial Observations on Resilience |
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Guillermo Franco and William Siembieda |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 591-600 | ||
Requirements and Verification Methodology for the Design Performance of Tsunami-Hinan Buildings (Temporary Tsunami Refuge Building) |
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Shinji Yagi and Yuji Hasemi |
Survey Report: | pp. 601-608 | ||
Evacuation Facility Selection Situations in Whole-Building Evacuation, Actually Implemented in a Super-High-Rise Building - Results of Questionnaire Survey with Evacuees - |
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Shinji Yagi |
No.4
(Aug)
Special Issue on Structural Engineering of Nuclear Related Facilities
Special Issue on Structural Engineering of Nuclear Related Facilities
Editorial: | p. 339 | |
Structural Engineering of Nuclear Related Facilities |
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Katsuki Takiguchi | ||
Since it was first used, nuclear energy’s control has been an important issue. With the generation of electricity as a major nuclear energy application, the improvement of nuclear power generation technology has been required by society, including power plant design, construction, and maintenance and radioactive waste disposal. Nuclear facilities must also take into account disaster prevention, as in the case of earthquakes and terrorist attacks, particularly because of the extensive potential and actual range of effects. This has made nuclear energy issues important considerations in JDR editorial meetings. In the July 16, 2007, case of the Niigataken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake, quake ground motion equaled or exceeded that presumed in the design of the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station, the world’s largest nuclear power station. Specific safety objectives for nuclear power plants include stopping the nuclear reaction, cooling the nuclear reactor, preventing radioactive material emission, and shielding surroundings from radiation - all of which were almost completely achieved in this case. Many problems were also revealed, however. JDR examined a special issue on Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station earthquake resistance at an editorial meeting but determined that such a topic remains premature. In its stead, we have planned a number featuring the structural engineering of nuclear related facilities as a first step in a series of special issues on nuclear energy. The papers for this number were submitted mainly by the presenters of 20th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology, held in Espoo, Finland, in 2009 with the catch phrase “Challenges Facing Nuclear Renaissance.” We greatly appreciate the many contributions to this issue, and would like to thank the reviewers, without whose cooperation this number could not have been published. Please note that, independent of special numbers such as this one, JDR looks forward to receiving papers on a wide range of fields related to disaster. |
Paper: | pp. 340-350 | ||
Combined Asymptotic Method for Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis |
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Alexander G. Tyapin |
Paper: | pp. 351-360 | ||
Experimental Study on Gamma Ray Shielding with Cracked Concrete Panels |
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Katsuki Takiguchi, Koshiro Nishimura, Isao Yoda, Dai Nagahara, and Kazuteru Kojima |
Paper: | pp. 361-368 | ||
Study on Radiation Shielding Performance of Reinforced Concrete Wall After the Earthquake |
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Keiji Sekine , Yoshinari Munakata, Osamu Kontani, and Koji Oishi |
Paper: | pp. 369-377 | ||
Seismic Capacity Test of Overhead Crane Under Horizontal and Vertical Excitation -Element Model Test Results on Nonlinear Response Behavior- |
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Kenichi Suzuki, Masakatsu Inagaki, and Tadashi Iijima |
Paper: | pp. 378-384 | ||
Application of “Leak Before Break” Assessment for Pressure Tube in Delayed Hydride Cracking |
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Gintautas Dundulis, Albertas Grybėnas, Vidas Makarevicius, and Remigijus Janulionis |
Paper: | pp. 385-394 | ||
Out-of-Plane Shear Strength of Steel-Plate-Reinforced Concrete Walls Dependent on Bond Behavior |
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Sung-Gul Hong, Wonki Kim, Kyung-Jin Lee, Namhee Kim Hong, and Dong-Hun Lee |
Paper: | pp. 395-406 | ||
Adjusting Fragility Analysis to Seismic Hazard Input |
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Jens-Uwe Klügel, Richard Attinger, and Shobha Rao |
Paper: | pp. 407-416 | ||
Vector-Valued Fragility Analysis Using PGA and PGV Simultaneously as Ground-Motion Intensity Measures |
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Sei’ichiro Fukushima |
Paper: | pp. 417-425 | ||
Parametric Study on the Floor Response Spectra and the Damage Potential of Aircraft Impact Induced Vibratory Loading |
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Anton Andonov, Kiril Apostolov, Dimitar Stefanov, and Marin Kostov |
Paper: | pp. 426-436 | ||
Soft Missile Impact on Shear Reinforced Concrete Wall |
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Arja Saarenheimo, Kim Calonius, Markku Tuomala, and Ilkka Hakola |
Paper: | pp. 437-451 | ||
Hard Missile Impact on Prestressed Shear Reinforced Slab |
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Markku Tuomala, Kim Calonius, Arja Saarenheimo, and Pekka Välikangas |
Paper: | pp. 452-462 | ||
An Approach for Performance-Based Capacity Assessment of Prestressed Concrete Containment Vessels for Internal Accidents Application to VVER 1000 Containment Vessel |
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Anton Andonov, Dimitar Stefanov, and Marin Kostov |
Paper: | pp. 463-468 | ||
Study on the Containment Performance of MOX Fuel Processing Glovebox in Earthquake -Loading and Leakage Tests for Window Panels- |
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Akihiro Matsuda, Yuichi Uchiyama, Masakatsu Inagaki, Susumu Tsuchino, Hiroyuki Umetsu, and Koji Shirai |
Paper: | pp. 469-478 | ||
Generation IV Material Issues - Case SCWR |
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Sami Penttilä, Aki Toivonen, Laura Rissanen, and Liisa Heikinheimo |
No.3
(Jun)
Special Issue on Sediment Induced Disasters
Special Issue on Sediment Induced Disasters
Editorial: | pp. 227-228 | |
Sediment Induced Disasters |
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Syunsuke Ikeda, Shinji Egashira, and Takahisa Mizuyama | ||
Sediment induced disasters have been studied in a wide variety of research fields ranging from social to natural science, with many interesting results. This special issue provides engineers and scientists with an opportunity to share knowledge and experience in engineering research concerning mass sediment movement and related disasters. To clarify this issue’s objectives and encourage submissions, topics have been discussed based on the needs, activities, and possible contributors classified into four categories: 1) Results based on field and literature surveys and data analysis for catastrophic, recent and historical mass movement, and corresponding disaster events. 2) Results based on field surveys and data analysis for recent usual mass movement events and corresponding disasters resulting from rainfall, earthquakes, volcanic activity, and glacier lakes and natural landslide dam events. 3) Mechanics and numerical modeling for mass movement. 4) Measures against sediment-induced and similar disasters. Last August, we began inviting submissions on these themes just as Typhoon Morakot slowly crossed Taiwan, causing historically significant rainfall events in southern Taiwan involving numerous landslides and debris flows and precipitated casualties, landscape changes, channel bed variations, etc., similar to the catastrophic sediment events occurring in Venezuela in 1999. Two papers describe what happened in Taiwan and Venezuela, providing advice on possible measures against such abnormal catastrophes. Three contributions describe historical catastrophes involving mountain collapse based on analysis of the literature, topography and field surveys, and numerical models. A total of 11 papers have been submitted, 4 of which concern applicability of constitutive equations for debris flow, numerical models for landslide occurrence due to rain fall and flood processes due to rapid landslide dam erosion, and sediment issues resulting from glacier lake outburst flooding. Two submissions focus on corrective measures. All papers have been reviewed, revised, and accepted for publication...<more> |
Paper: | pp. 229-235 | ||
Sediment Induced Disasters in the World and 1999-Debris Flow Disasters in Venezuela |
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Takahisa Mizuyama and Shinji Egashira |
Paper: | pp. 236-244 | ||
An Overview of Disasters Resulted from Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan |
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Chjeng-Lun Shieh, Chun-Ming Wang, Yu-Shiu Chen, Yuan-Jung Tsai, and Wen-Hsiao Tseng |
Paper: | pp. 245-256 | ||
The Catastrophic Tombi Landslide and Accompanying Landslide Dams Induced by the 1858 Hietsu Earthquake |
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Kimio Inoue, Takahisa Mizuyama, and Yukihiko Sakatani |
Paper: | pp. 257-263 | ||
Large Sediment Movement Caused by the Catastrophic Ohya-Kuzure Landslide |
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Satoshi Tsuchiya and Fumitoshi Imaizumi |
Paper: | pp. 264-273 | ||
Field Assessment of Tam Pokhari Glacial Lake Outburst Flood in Khumbu Region, Nepal |
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Rabindra Osti, Shinji Egashira, Katsuhito Miyake, and Tara Nidhi Bhattarai |
Paper: | pp. 274-279 | ||
Mechanics of Debris Flow Over a Rigid Bed |
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Kuniaki Miyamoto and Yuki Tsurumi |
Paper: | pp. 280-287 | ||
Numerical Simulation of Landslide Movement and Unzen-Mayuyama Disaster in 1792, Japan |
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Kuniaki Miyamoto |
Paper: | pp. 288-295 | ||
Prediction of Floods Caused by Landslide Dam Collapse |
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Yoshifumi Satofuka, Toshio Mori, Takahisa Mizuyama, Kiichiro Ogawa, and Kousuke Yoshino |
Paper: | pp. 296-306 | ||
A Prediction Method for Slope Failure by Means of Monitoring of Water Content in Slope-Soil Layer |
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Masaharu Fujita, Seitaro Ohshio, and Daizo Tsutsumi |
Paper: | pp. 307-314 | ||
Design Standard of Control Structures Against Debris Flow in Japan |
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Nobutomo Osanai, Hideaki Mizuno, and Takahisa Mizuyama |
Paper: | pp. 315-323 | ||
Emergency Response to Sediment-Related Disasters Caused by Large Earthquakes in Japan - the Case of the Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku Earthquake in 2008 - |
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Shin’ya Katsura, Yoko Tomita, Nobutomo Osanai, Chiaki Inaba, Masashi Arai, and Osamu Saguchi |
Regular Papers
Development Report: | pp. 325-329 | ||
Flood Prevention Strategy in Taiwan: Lessons Learned from Typhoon Morakot |
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Lung-Sheng Hsieh, Jiun-Huei Jang, Hsuan-Ju Lin, and Pao-Shan Yu |
No.2
(Apr)
Special Issue on Building Local Capacity for Long-term Disaster Resilience
Special Issue on Building Local Capacity for Long-term Disaster Resilience
Editorial: | pp. 127-129 | |
“Building Local Capacity for Long-term Disaster Resilience” Toward Disaster Resilient Communities |
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Kenneth C. Topping, Haruo Hayashi, William Siembieda and Michael Boswell | ||
This special issue of JDR is centered on the theme of “Building Local Capacity for Long-term Disaster Resilience.” Eight papers and one commentary describe challenges in various countries of promoting disaster resilience at local, sub-national, and national levels. Resilience is broadly defined here as the capacity of a community to: 1) survive amajor disaster; 2) retain essential structure and functions; and 3) adapt to post-disaster opportunities for transforming community structure and functions to meet new challenges. This working definition is similar to others put forward in the growing literature on resilience. Resilience can also be seen as an element of sustainability. Initially referring only to environmental conditions, the concept of sustainable development was defined as that which meets the needs of present generations while not compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (Bruntland Commission, Our Common Future, 1987). Now, the term sustainability has come to mean the need to preserve all resources for future use, including social, physical, economic, cultural and historical, as well as environmental resources. Disasters destroy resources, making communities less sustainable or even unsustainable. Resilience helps to protect resources, among other things, through coordination of all four disaster management functions: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Mitigation commonly involves reduction of risks and prevention of disaster losses through long-term sustained actions modifying the environment. Preparedness involves specific preparations for what to do and how to respond during a disaster at the personal, household, and community level. Response means actions taken immediately after a disaster to rescue survivors, conduct evacuation, feed and shelter victims, and restore communications. Recovery involves restoring lives, infrastructure, services, and economic activity, while seeking long-term community improvement. When possible, emphasis should be placed on building local resilience before a disaster when opportunities are greater for foster...<more> |
Paper: | pp. 130-137 | ||
‘Setting the Stage’: How Policy Institutions Frame Participationin Post-Disaster Recovery |
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Divya Chandrasekhar |
Paper: | pp. 138-146 | ||
Building Community Capacity for Disaster Resilience in Taiwan |
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Liang-Chun Chen and Yi-Wen Wang |
Paper: | pp. 147-154 | ||
Lessons for Long-Term Residential Recovery: Factors of Community Resilience and Marginalization |
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Nabil Kamel |
Paper: | pp. 155-163 | ||
Social Resilience, Disaster Prevention, and Climate Change: Challenges from Mexico |
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Daniel Rodríguez Velázquez |
Paper: | pp. 164-171 | ||
Using National Financial Incentives to Build Local Resiliency: The U.S. Disaster Mitigation Act |
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Kenneth C. Topping |
Paper: | pp. 172-179 | ||
Post-Disaster Assessment of the Performance of Hazard Mitigation Projects: The California SMART Approach |
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Michael R. Boswell, William J. Siembieda, and Kenneth C. Topping |
Paper: | pp. 180-186 | ||
Lowering Vulnerability Using the Asset-Access-Time Method |
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William J. Siembieda |
Paper: | pp. 187-193 | ||
Smart Disaster Reduction Against Torrential Downpours: Micromedia Creation |
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Haruo Hayashi, Keiko Tamura, Satoshi Kitada, and Satomi Sudo |
Commentary: | pp. 194-196 | ||
Commentary on Building Disaster Resilient Communities |
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Chris D. Poland |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 197-207 | ||
A Proposal for Effective Emergency Training and Exercise Program to Improve Competence for Disaster Response of Disaster Responders |
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Kayoko Takemoto, Yutaka Motoya, and Reo Kimura |
Paper: | pp. 208-215 | ||
Logit Analysis of Socioeconomic Factors Influencing Famine in Uganda |
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Washington Okori, Joseph Obua, and Venansius Baryamureeba |
No.1
(Feb)
Special Issue on Effective Emergency Management: A Geographic Approach
Special Issue on Effective Emergency Management: A Geographic Approach
Editorial: | pp. 3-4 | |
Effective Emergency Management: A Geographic Approach |
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Haruo Hayashi and Go Urakawa | ||
This special issue introduces 12 papers on a variety of best practices for effective emergency management using geospatial database and geographic information system (GIS). The first seven papers are grouped under GIS in action, show how GIS is used for different disaster reduction services. In response to the 2007 Niigata-ken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake, GIS maps have been a part of Niigata PrefectureGovernment Emergency Operation Center work to aid in decisionmaking by providing Common Operational Picture (COP) as detailed by Tamura et al. A victim database was used as the key for integrated victim support in Kashiwazaki City in long-term recovery as detailed by Inoguchi et al. The success of GIS-based postdisaster operations vastly impacts on local governments in Wajima City, hit by the 2007 Noto Hanto Earthquake, where the use of GIS continued and expanded as an effective tool for building local government agency response capacity as detailed by Ura et al. In Kashiwazaki, the failure to apply municipal integrated GIS in postdisaster operations changed GIS policy to a less expensive service-oriented GIS readily available for local government agency use as detailed by Honma et al. A nationwide GIS map archive for researchers contains maps created at different disaster response stages as detailed by Nawa et al. Visualization of disaster impact using GIS is a powerful tool for disaster mitigation and preparedness, with impact by a worst-case-scenario magnitude 7.3 Tokyo Metropolitan earthquake as detailed by Suzuki et al. Design principles for visualization are reviewed by Urabe et al. In Japan, damage certification is used as the basis for deciding public and private support eligibility for quake victims, making it imperative for local governments to issue certification based on housing damage assessment results as soon and as fairly as possible. Based on practices in Kashiwazaki City following the 2007 Niigataken Chuetsu-oki earthquake, damage to 64,000 household footprints was assessed within one month as detailed in the last five papers. Two papers cover GIS-based data acquisition in housing damage ...<more> |
Paper: | pp. 5-11 | ||
2007 Emergency Mapping Center Constructing Common Operational Pictures with GIS |
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Keiko Tamura, Go Urakawa, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 12-21 | ||
Realization of Effective Disaster Victim Support Through Development of Victim Master Database with Geo-Reference -A Case Study of 2007 Niigataken Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake- |
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Munenari Inoguchi, Keiko Tamura, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 22-30 | ||
Realization of Local Capacity Building for Managing Instructional-System-Design-Based GIS -A Case Study of Wajima City at 2007 Noto Hanto Earthquake- |
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Yoshihiro Ura, Munenari Inoguchi, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 31-44 | ||
Design Principles for Visualization of Public Information for Effective Disaster Reduction |
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Kenshin Urabe, Haruo Hayashi, Satoshi Inoue, Haruhide Yoshida, and Toshihiro Shimosakai |
Paper: | pp. 45-53 | ||
Spatial Exposure Analysis on Tokyo Metropolitan Earthquake Disaster |
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Shingo Suzuki and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 54-65 | ||
Mobile GIS Application Development for Emergency Damage Assessment in a Disaster |
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Norihiro Tonosaki, Go Urakawa, Kei Omura, Yuji Nawa, Ryota Hamamoto, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 66-73 | ||
QR Coded Field Data Acquisition |
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Mitsuhiro Higashida, Yasushi Matsushita, Haruo Hayashi, Kouichi Miyake, Masayuki Morikawa, and Nozomu Yoshitomi |
Paper: | pp. 74-81 | ||
Disaster-Victim Database Development Using GeoWrap Method -From the 2004 Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake to the 2007 Niigataken Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake- |
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Nozomu Yoshitomi, Haruo Hayashi, Katsuyuki Matsuoka, Hidenori Terano, Munenari Inoguchi, and Go Urakawa |
Paper: | pp. 82-89 | ||
GIS-Based Damage Certification Support System Based on Recent Earthquake Experience |
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Katsuyuki Matsuoka, Haruo Hayashi, Nozomu Yoshitomi, Go Urakawa, Ryota Hamamoto, Yuji Nawa, Hidenori Terano, and Norihiro Tonosaki |
Paper: | pp. 90-97 | ||
Inexpensive Integrated GIS for Local Government to Implement Emergency Response and Management Effectively |
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Go Urakawa and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 98-107 | ||
Building Local-Government Service-Oriented GIS Through 2007 Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake Experience |
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Tsutomu Honma, Go Urakawa, Munenari Inoguchi, Norihiro Tonosaki, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 108-116 | ||
Geography Network for Sharing Geospatial Information in Disaster Management |
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Yuji Nawa, Go Urakawa, Hiro Ikemi, Ryota Hamamoto, and Haruo Hayashi |
Vol.4 (2009)
No.6
(Dec)
Special Issue on Tsunami Forces and Effects on Structures
Special Issue on Tsunami Forces and Effects on Structures
Editorial: | pp. 375-376 | |
Tsunami Forces and Effects on Structures |
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Harry Yeh and Nobuo Shuto | ||
The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami claimed more than 220,000 lives. It was a low-probability high-consequence event. A similar disaster could strike elsewhere, particularly in the Pacific but also in Caribbean, Atlantic, and Mediterranean regions. Unlike in seismic ground shaking, there is usually a short lead-time precedes tsunami attack: from a few minutes for a local source to several hours for a distant source. Because mega-tsunamis are rare and because forewarning of these events is possible, the primary mitigation tactic to date has been evacuation. Hence, most efforts have focused on the development of effective warning systems, inundation maps, and tsunami awareness. This strategy makes sense from the standpoint of saving human lives. However, it does not address the devastating damage to buildings and critical coastal infrastructure, such as major coastal bridges, oil and LNG storage facilities, power plants, and ports and harbors. Failure in critical infrastructure creates enormous economic setbacks and collateral damage. The accelerating construction of critical infrastructure in the coastal zone demands a better understanding of design methodology in building tsunamiresistant structures. In some coastal areas such as low-elevation coastal spits or plains, evacuating people to higher ground may be impractical because they have no time to reach safety. In these situations, the only feasible way to minimize human casualties is to evacuate people to the upper floors of tsunami-resistant buildings. Such buildings must be designed and constructed to survive strong seismic ground shaking and subsequent tsunami impacts. The primary causes of structural failure subject to tsunami attack can be categorized into three groups: 1) hydrodynamic force, 2) impact force by water-born objects, and 3) scour and foundation failure. Tsunami behaviors are quite distinct, however, from other coastal hazards such as storm waves; hence the effects cannot be inferred from common knowledge or intuition. Recent research has addressed tsunami forces acting on coastal structures to develop appropriate design guidelines, and mechanisms...<more> |
Development Report: | pp. 377-381 | ||
Structural Behavior Under Impulsive Tsunami Loading |
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Taro Arikawa |
Paper: | pp. 382-390 | ||
Effectiveness of Small Onshore Seawall in Reducing Forces Induced by Tsunami Bore: Large Scale Experimental Study |
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Mary Elizabeth Oshnack, Francisco Aguíñiga, Daniel Cox, Rakesh Gupta, and John van de Lindt |
Paper: | pp. 391-403 | ||
Tsunami Bore Impingement onto a Vertical Column |
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Halldor Arnason, Catherine Petroff, and Harry Yeh |
Paper: | pp. 404-409 | ||
Estimation of Tsunami Force Acting on Rectangular Structures |
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Koji Fujima, Fauzie Achmad, Yoshinori Shigihara, and Norimi Mizutani |
Paper: | pp. 410-418 | ||
Experimental Verification of FEMA P646 Tsunami Loading |
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Panitan Lukkunaprasit, Nuttawut Thanasisathit, and Harry Yeh |
Paper: | pp. 419-426 | ||
Wave Impact Study on a Residential Building |
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John W. van de Lindt, Rakesh Gupta, Daniel T. Cox, and Jebediah S. Wilson |
Paper: | pp. 427-434 | ||
Tsunami Force Acting on Oil Tanks and Buckling Analysis for Tsunami Pressure |
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Tsutomu Sakakiyama, Shinichi Matsuura, and Masafumi Matsuyama |
Paper: | pp. 435-440 | ||
Method for Estimating Collision Force of Driftwood Accompanying Tsunami Inundation Flow |
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Hideo Matsutomi |
Paper: | pp. 441-449 | ||
Collision Analysis of Container Drifted by Runup Tsunami Using Drift Collision Coupled Model |
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Gyeong-Seon Yeom, Tomoaki Nakamura, and Norimi Mizutani |
Paper: | pp. 450-461 | ||
A Multiphysics Multiscale 3-D Computational Wave Basin Model for Wave Impact Load on a Cylindrical Structure |
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Solomon C. Yim and Wenbin Zhang |
Paper: | pp. 462-468 | ||
Damage to Coastal Structures by Tsunami-Induced Currents in the Past |
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Nobuo Shuto |
Paper: | pp. 469-478 | ||
Numerical Simulation of Damage to a Soil Embankment from Tsunami Overflow |
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Hiroyuki Fujii, Shintaro Hotta, and Nobuo Shuto |
Paper: | pp. 479-488 | ||
Tsunami Fragility — A New Measure to Identify Tsunami Damage — |
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Shunichi Koshimura, Yuichi Namegaya, and Hideaki Yanagisawa |
Paper: | pp. 489-497 | ||
Review of Recent Tsunami Observation by Offshore Cabled Observatory |
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Hiroyuki Matsumoto and Yoshiyuki Kaneda |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 499-505 | ||
Does the Type of News Coverage Influence Donations to Disaster Relief? Evidence from the 2008 Cyclone in Myanmar |
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Philip H. Brown and Po Yin Wong |
No.5
(Oct)
Our Social Activities Are Always Related to Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases
Our Social Activities Are Always Related to Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases
Editorial: | pp. 289-290 | |
Our Social Activities Are Always Related to Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases |
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Masayuki Saijo | ||
Thanks to the improvement of living standard and hygiene as well as to the development of the therapeutics, such as antimicrobial agents, diagnostics, vaccines, the mortality and morbidity rates due to infectious diseases have been dramatically improved in developed countries. However, the mortality and morbidity of infectious diseases, respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections are still very high and the leading causes of fatalities in developing countries. Furthermore, emerging and reemerging infections frequently occur locally and internationally. For instance, the 2009 influenza virus A/H1N1-associated pandemic has emerged and raised public anxiety levels. It is evident that we live in an environment in which infectious diseases are commonly transmitted. Human activities are closely related to the emergence of newly identified infectious diseases. In this issue, the background of the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases is reviewed. The infectious diseases that might raise public anxiety, such as Nipah encephalitis, rabies, and influenza are focused on and reviewed. The influenza pandemic and imported infectious diseases, which may cross borders, are also reviewed. Infectious diseases associated with natural disasters are reviewed for the sake of future preparedness. The hemorrhagic fevers, such as Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fevers, cause severe infections and have very high mortality rates. The diagnostic systems developed for viral hemorrhagic fevers developed in Japan are introduced. The international situation regarding the development of biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratories is introduced. In the review, it is emphasized that BSL-4 laboratories should be operated in Japan, although viral hemorrhagic fevers are not prevalent in Japan. Furthermore, preparedness strategies for large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases are presented. I believe these papers will help preparations against the infectious diseases associated with disastrous events. I would be very glad if the readers understood the background of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases and noticed that effic...<more> |
Review: | pp. 291-297 | ||
Emerging and Reemerging Infection Threats to Society |
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Masayuki Saijo |
Review: | pp. 298-308 | ||
Strategies for Communicable Diseases Response After Disasters in Developing Countries |
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Koffi Isidore Kouadio, Taro Kamigaki, and Hitoshi Oshitani |
Review: | pp. 309-314 | ||
Nipah Virus Infection - Zoonosis Among Wild Animals, Domestic Animals and Humans |
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Yoshihiro Kaku |
Review: | pp. 315-321 | ||
Diagnostic Systems for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers and Emerging Viral Infections Prepared in the National Institute of Infectious Diseases |
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Masayuki Saijo, Shigeru Morikawa, and Ichiro Kurane |
Review: | pp. 322-328 | ||
Arbovirus Infections: the Challenges of Controlling an Ever-Present Enemy |
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Tomohiko Takasaki, Akira Kotaki, Chang-Kweng Lim, Shigeru Tajima, Tsutomu Omatsu, Meng Ling Moi, and Ichiro Kurane |
Review: | pp. 329-336 | ||
Research on Preparedness for Bioterrorism - Associated Events in Japan: Smallpox Vaccine Preparedness |
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Tomoya Saito |
Review: | pp. 337-345 | ||
Preparedness for Natural Disaster-Associated Infections |
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Koki Kaku |
Review: | pp. 346-351 | ||
Imported Rabies Cases and Preparedness for Rabies in Japan |
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Kinjiro Morimoto and Masayuki Saijo |
Review: | pp. 352-355 | ||
BSL4 Facilities in Anti-Infectious Disease Measures |
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Ichiro Kurane |
Review: | pp. 356-364 | ||
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Virus Viewed from an Epidemiological Triangle Model |
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Emmanuel A. Mpolya, Yuki Furuse, Nao Nukiwa, Akira Suzuki, Taro Kamigaki, and Hitoshi Oshitani |
No.4
(Aug)
Special Issue on Early Warning for Natural Disaster Mitigation
Special Issue on Early Warning for Natural Disaster Mitigation
Editorial: | p. 529 | |
Early Warning for Natural Disaster Mitigation |
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Masato Motosaka | ||
Japan and many other counties face the risk of the natural disaster such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods. Natural disaster mitigation research and development are providing important, practical applications based on the development of the scientific technology. One major contribution is early warning system, being backed by observation and communication technology progress. Early warning research and development have been extensively studied domestically and internationally. Specifically, recent developments in earthquake engineering research and construction of seismic dense network have made it possible to issue earthquake warnings before the arrival of severe shaking. Such warnings enable emergency measures to be taken to protect lives, buildings, infrastructure, and transport from earthquake depredations. One such system went into practical use nationwide in Japan starting on October 1, 2007. Development has been conducted with cooperation of government, academic community and non-government, and private organizations. This special issue features papers on the early warning system for the natural disastermitigation covering issues ranging from natural science to social science. The recent developed earthquake early warning technology and its applications will be introduced. Besides earthquakes, the recent early warning technology for tsunami and flood are also included in this issue. The warning time available for tsunami and flood is much longer than that for earthquakes, and the contribution of numerical calculation using the real-time observation data differs with the type of disaster. Finally I would like to express my deepest gratitude for anonymous reviewers of papers in this special issue. |
Paper: | pp. 530-538 | ||
Earthquake Early Warning Technology Progress in Taiwan |
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Kuo-Liang Wen , Tzay-Chyn Shin, Yih-Min Wu, Nai-Chi Hsiao, and Bing-Ru Wu |
Paper: | pp. 539-545 | ||
Promotion Planning for Application of an Earthquake Early Warning System in Taiwan |
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Liang-Chun Chen, Bing-Ru Wu, Kai-Wen Kuo, Keh-Chyuan Tsai, Nai-Chi Hsiao, Min Chen, and Tzu-Shiu Wu |
Paper: | pp. 546-556 | ||
Development of Application Systems for Earthquake Early Warning |
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Yukio Fujinawa, Yoshinori Rokugo, Yoichi Noda, Yoshinobu Mizui, Masaji Kobayashi, and Etsuo Mizutani |
Paper: | pp. 557-564 | ||
Earthquake Early Warning System Application for School Disaster Prevention |
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Masato Motosaka and Makoto Homma |
Paper: | pp. 565-569 | ||
Earthquake Early Warning Hospital Applications |
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Yoshihito Horiuchi |
Paper: | pp. 570-578 | ||
Application of Earthquake Early Warning System to Seismic-Isolated Buildings |
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Keiichi Okada, Yutaka Nakamura, and Masaaki Saruta |
Paper: | pp. 579-587 | ||
Practical Site-Specific Earthquake Early Warning Application |
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Katsuhisa Kanda, Tadashi Nasu, and Masamitsu Miyamura |
Paper: | pp. 588-594 | ||
Real-Time Ground Motion Forecasting Using Front-Site Waveform Data Based on Artificial Neural Network |
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H. Serdar Kuyuk and Masato Motosaka |
Paper: | pp. 595-599 | ||
History and Challenge of Tsunami Warning Systems in Japan |
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Fumihiko Imamura and Ikuo Abe |
Paper: | pp. 600-605 | ||
Uncertainty Evaluation in a Flood Forecasting Model Using JMA Numerical Weather Prediction |
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Hadi Kardhana and Akira Mano |
Errata: | p. 606 | |
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No.3
(Jun)
Special Issue on Japan’s Advanced Technology for Building Seismic Protection
Special Issue on Japan’s Advanced Technology for Building Seismic Protection
Editorial: | pp. 173-174 | |
Japan’s Advanced Technology for Building Seismic Protection |
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Kazuhiko Kasai | ||
Modern buildings have more complex, important functions than ever before, and damage to these functions adversely impacted on socioeconomic activity during and after the 1995 Hyogo-Ken Nanbu Earthquake that leveled much of Kobe, Japan. Although many such buildings protected the lives of occupants, their impaired functioning required costly structural and nonstructural repair. Questions have been raised about conventional building structure performance enabling inelastic deformation or considerable damage during a major earthquake, as shown in Fig. 1a. Advanced technology such as building base isolation, shown in Fig. 1b, and passive control by dampers, shown in Fig. 1c, was developed prior to the Kobe disaster and became rapidly accepted after it, in line with a strong desire to better protect structural and nonstructural components. In base isolation, a building is placed on a flexible isolator that absorbs lateral ground movement, preventing vibration in the upper parts of the structure, as shown in Fig. 1b. In passive control, dampers connected to the structural frame dissipate seismic input energy, reducing kinetic energy and vibration of the building, as shown in Fig. 1c. Such advanced technology is currently used for all major buildings and even for small residences in Japan to better protect buildings and their contents. Japan has produced a large number of buildings with the technology, and is believed to have conducted the most extensive research in realizing base isolation and passive control schemes. This special issue of JDR addresses the present and future of Japan’s advanced technology with special reference to major activities related to design, construction, and research. Its purpose is to globally disseminate and share knowledge on promising schemes to help protect lives and social assets against catastrophic earthquakes. This issue covers the current status of base isolation and passive control schemes, unique projects promoting technology for structurally challenging cases, building requirements necessitating the use of advanced technology, the status of current codes and specifications, ...<more> |
Paper: | pp. 175-181 | ||
Current State of Seismic-Isolation Design |
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Nagahide Kani |
Paper: | pp. 182-191 | ||
Iconic Architectural Forms Enabled by Base-Isolation |
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Masayoshi Nakai, Yoshio Tanno, Hirokazu Kozuka, and Masato Ohata |
Paper: | pp. 192-198 | ||
A Seismic Isolated Long-Span Overhanging Urban Infrastructure |
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Yutaka Nakamura, Toshiaki Saito, and Kazuo Tamura |
Paper: | pp. 199-207 | ||
Seismic Isolation Retrofit for Large-Scale Government Building Identified as Cultural Assets |
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Takao Nishizawa |
Paper: | pp. 208-219 | ||
Seismic Isolation Retrofit of a Medical Complex by Integrating Two Large-Scale Buildings |
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Yoe Masuzawa and Yoshiaki Hisada |
Paper: | pp. 220-228 | ||
Seismic Roof Isolation over a Large Space - Kyoto Aquarena Roof Design - |
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Katsunori Kaneda and Hirokazu Takahashi |
Paper: | pp. 229-238 | ||
Middle-Story Isolated Structural System of High-Rise Building |
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Yasuhiro Tsuneki, Shingo Torii, Katsuhide Murakami, and Toshiyuki Sueoka |
Paper: | pp. 239-245 | ||
Seismic Response Control of a Soft First-Story Building |
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Yasuhiro Hayabe and Yuichi Watanabe |
Paper: | pp. 246-252 | ||
High-Rise Building Seismic Vibration Control Using Large Tuned Top-Floor Mass Damper |
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Akifumi Makino |
Paper: | pp. 253-260 | ||
Structural Control by Innovative Oil Damper with Automatic On/Off Valve Operation |
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Haruhiko Kurino, Satoshi Orui, and Kan Shimizu |
Paper: | pp. 261-269 | ||
Building Passive Control in Japan |
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Kazuhiko Kasai, Masayoshi Nakai, Yutaka Nakamura, Hidekatsu Asai, Yousuke Suzuki, and Masato Ishii |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 271-281 | ||
Evaluating Planning Process of the Kobe Recovery Plan Based on Project Management Framework |
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Toshikazu Ota, Norio Maki, and Haruo Hayashi |
Paper: | pp. 282-290 | ||
Geologist Views of the Predicted Tokai Earthquake |
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Akira Tokuyama |
No.2
(Apr)
Special Issue on Evaluation and disaster prevention research for the coming Tokai, Tonankai and Nankai earthquakes
Special Issue on Evaluation and disaster prevention research for the coming Tokai, Tonankai and Nankai earthquakes
Development Report: | pp. 61-66 | ||
New Research Project for Evaluating Seismic Linkage Around the Nankai Trough —Integration of Observation, Simulation, and Disaster Mitigation— |
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Yoshiyuki Kaneda, Kazuo Hirahara, and Takashi Furumura |
Paper: | pp. 67-71 | ||
Structural Research on the Nankai Trough Using Reflections and Refractions |
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Yoshiyuki Kaneda and Shuichi Kodaira |
Paper: | pp. 72-82 | ||
Continuous Long-Term Seafloor Pressure Observation for Detecting Slow-Slip Interplate Events in Miyagi-Oki on the Landward Japan Trench Slope |
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Ryota Hino, Shiori Ii, Takeshi Iinuma, and Hiromi Fujimoto |
Paper: | pp. 83-93 | ||
Underground Structural Anomalies and Slow Earthquake Activities Around Seismogenic Megathrust Earthquake Zone as Revealed by Inland Seismic Observations |
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Kazushige Obara and Katsuhiko Shiomi |
Paper: | pp. 94-98 | ||
Principal Component Analysis as a Tool for Materials Characterization of the Plate Boundary — Seismic Activity Application in the Plate Boundary Zone of the Northeastern Japan Arc. |
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Mitsuhiro Toriumi |
Paper: | pp. 99-105 | ||
Toward Advanced Earthquake Cycle Simulation |
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Kazuro Hirahara |
Paper: | pp. 106-110 | ||
Conditions for Consecutive Rupture of Adjacent Asperities |
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Naoyuki Kato |
Paper: | pp. 111-117 | ||
A Model of Earthquake-Generation Cycle with Scale-Dependent Frictional Property - Preliminary Results and Research Plan for a Project of Evaluation for Coming Tokai, Tonankai, and Nankai Earthquakes |
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Takane Hori, Shin’ichi Miyazaki, and Noa Mitsui |
Paper: | pp. 118-126 | ||
Integrated Ground Motion and Tsunami Simulation for the 1944 Tonankai Earthquake Using High-Performance Supercomputers |
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Takashi Furumura and Tatsuhiko Saito |
Paper: | pp. 127-134 | ||
Characteristics and Mitigation Measures for Tsunamis Generated Along the Nankai Trough |
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Fumihiko Imamura and Kentaro Imai |
Paper: | pp. 135-141 | ||
Prediction of Strong Ground Motion and Building Damage in Urban Areas and Development of a Disaster Mitigation Strategy |
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Nobuo Fukuwa, Jun Tobita, Masafumi Mori, and Hiroto Takahashi |
Paper: | pp. 142-150 | ||
Response to Possible Earthquake Disasters in the Tokai, Tonankai, and Nankai Areas, and Their Restoration/Reconstruction Strategies |
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Norio Maki, Hai-Li Chen, and Shingo Suzuki |
Paper: | pp. 151-152 | ||
Newly Proposed Disaster Mitigation and Recovery for the Next Nankai Trough Megathrust Earthquakes |
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Yoshiyuki Kaneda, Michihiro Ohori, and Takeshi Nakamura |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 153-164 | ||
Damage to Civil Engineering Structures with an Emphasis on Rock Slope Failures and Tunnel Damage Induced by the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake |
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Ö. Aydan, M. Hamada, J. Itoh, and K. Okubo |
No.1
(Feb)
Special Issue on Adaptation to Global-Warming-Triggered Disasters
Special Issue on Adaptation to Global-Warming-Triggered Disasters
Editorial: | pp. 1-2 | |
Adaptation to Global-Warming-Triggered Disasters |
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Syunsuke Ikeda | ||
The Committee on Disaster Mitigation under Global Changes of Natural and Social Environments, Science Council of Japan (SCJ), issued on May 30, 2007 a report, “Policies for Creation of a Safe and Secure Society against Increasing Natural Disasters around the World”. The report, which includes an outline of Japan’s past responses to natural disasters of a global scale, provides a comprehensive discussion of a desirable direction for the development of infrastructure and social systems to meet the forthcoming changes in nature and society. Based on the report, the committee reported to the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, in response to the minister’s former inquiry. Another report was issued on countermeasures by adaptation to water-related disasters, following the former report and the result of discussions made in the subcommittee on June 26, 2008. This special issue of JDR is based on the latter report of Science Council of Japan. In Japan, over the past 30 years, the number of days of heavy rain with a daily rainfall of 200 mm or more have increased to about 1.5 times that of the first 30 years of the 20th century. It has been pointed out that this is likely to have been caused by global warming. The Fourth report of the IPCC indicates that even low-end predictions implies an unavoidable temperature rise of about 2°C, and, even if the concentration of greenhouse gases is stabilized, the ongoing warming and sea level rise will continue for several centuries. In terms of social systems, population and assets are increasingly concentrated in metropolitan areas. At the same time, economic recession and aging of the population are accelerating especially in rural areas. The central parts of small- and medium-size cities have lost vitality, and so-called marginal settlements are increasing in farming, forestry and fishing villages. These factors make it difficult and complicated to maintain social functions to fight with natural disasters. Under these circumstances, it is quite important in our country to take an action for adaptation to climate changes...<more> |
Review: | pp. 3-6 | ||
Adaptation to Global-Warming-Triggered Water Disasters Measures Taken by Science Council of Japan |
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Syunsuke Ikeda |
Review: | pp. 7-11 | ||
“Disaster Immunity” - A New Concept for Disaster Reduction in Adaptation to Disaster Hazard Intensification |
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Hideo Oshikawa, Koji Asai, Kenichi Tsukahara, and Toshimitsu Komatsu |
Review: | pp. 12-23 | ||
Assessing Climate Change Impact on Water Resources in the Tone River Basin, Japan, Using Super-High-Resolution Atmospheric Model Output |
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Kaoru Takara, Sunmin Kim, Yasuto Tachikawa, and Eiichi Nakakita |
Review: | pp. 24-31 | ||
Infrastructure’s Role Against Climate Change |
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ISHII, Yumio |
Review: | pp. 32-40 | ||
Significance of Studies for Recovery and Restoration Measures in Adaptation to the Intensification of Flood Disasters |
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Tsuneyoshi Mochizuki |
Paper: | pp. 41-52 | ||
The 1755 Lisbon Tsunami: Tsunami Source Determination and its Validation |
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Angela Santos, Shunichi Koshimura, and Fumihiko Imamura |
Vol.3 (2008)
No.6
(Dec)
Special Issue on Crisis Management Following Tokyo Metropolitan Near Field Earthquake Disaster
Special Issue on Crisis Management Following Tokyo Metropolitan Near Field Earthquake Disaster
Editorial: | pp. 369-371 | |
Crisis Management Following Tokyo Metropolitan Near Field Earthquake Disaster |
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Haruo Hayashi | ||
1. Introduction It is expected that Tokyo Metropolitan area and her vicinity may be jolted by a devastating earthquake with a 70% chance for the next 30 years. If it happens, an unprecedented scale of damage and losses may follow. With the severity of possible consequences due to this earthquake, a special project, entitled as “Special Project for Metropolitan Earthquake DisasterMitigation in Tokyo Metropolitan Area” (2007-2011), is commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (MEXT), This special project consists of three subprojects; Seismology, Earthquake Engineering, and Crisis Management and Recovery. In this issue of JDR, we will introduce 10 papers produced as a series of the achievements from the subproject on Crisis Management and Recovery. This subproject considers Tokyo Metropolitan Earthquake as a national crisis occurred in the Tokyo metropolitan area. All the available knowledge of disaster researchers should be gathered from nationwide, including both emergency response and long-term recovery to minimize damage and losses. This project examines measures for improving the capacity for the people from disaster management organizations to react to crisis and help rebuilding life recovery of disaster victims. An information-sharing platform will be proposed to comprehensively manage individual disaster response and recovery measures. “Training and exercise systems” will be introduced to empower local capacity to mitigate and recover from disaster by integrating all of the project achievements among stakeholders. The final goal of this project is to make ourselves prepared for help the anticipated 25 million victims at most due to Tokyo Metropolitan earthquake. |
Paper: | pp. 372-380 | ||
Building Damage Inspection Analysis in the 2007 Niigata Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake, Kashiwazaki: Self-Inspection Analysis for Damage Evaluation |
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Satoshi Tanaka |
Paper: | pp. 381-389 | ||
Household Recovery Consulting Using Household Recovery Support Chart in Anamizu Town After the March 2007 Noto Peninsula Earthquake |
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Masasuke Takashima, Satoshi Tanaka, and Kishie Shigekawa |
Paper: | pp. 390-399 | ||
An Emergency Restoration Model for Water Supply Network Damage due to Earthquakes |
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Shigeru Nagata, Kohei Kageyama, and Kinya Yamamoto |
Paper: | pp. 400-406 | ||
Estimation of Seismic Shutoff of Intelligent Gas Meters in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area |
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Yoshihisa Maruyama, Fumio Yamazaki, Yoshihisa Yano, and Naoyuki Hosokawa |
Paper: | pp. 407-421 | ||
Pre-Disaster Restoration Measure of Preparedness for Post-Disaster Restoration in Tokyo |
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Itsuki Nakabayashi, Shin Aiba, and Taro Ichiko |
Paper: | pp. 422-428 | ||
Development of Planning Support System for Urban Rehabilitation and Reconstruction |
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Takaaki Kato, Itsuki Nakabayashi, and Taro Ichiko |
Paper: | pp. 429-441 | ||
The Development and Validation of Disaster Response Competency Profile Indices |
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Shigeo Tatsuki |
Paper: | pp. 442-456 | ||
Participatory Risk Communication Method for Risk Governance Using Disaster Risk Scenarios |
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Toshinari Nagasaka, Hiroaki Tsubokawa, Yuichiro Usuda, Shingo Nagamatsu, Shinya Miura, and Saburo Ikeda |
Paper: | pp. 457-466 | ||
An Analysis of a Local Government's Disaster Response Activity Records from the Viewpoint of Information Management |
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Shinya Kondo and Kimiro Meguro |
Paper: | pp. 467-478 | ||
IT Framework for Disaster Mitigation Information Sharing |
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Itsuki Noda, Hiroki Shimora, Hiroki Matsui, Hiroshi Yokota, Akihiro Shibayama, Yoshiaki Hisada, Masahiro Murakami, Takeyasu Suzuki, Yasunori Hada, Takeshi Yamada, Shinsaku Zama, Yasushi Hada, Jun-ichi Meguro, and Ken Okamoto |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 479-502 | ||
The Next Generation of Seismic Isolation Going Beyond Seismic Design Dominated by Earthquakes |
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Mitsuo Miyazaki |
No.5
(Oct)
Regular papers
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 321-333 | ||
Using Game Technique as a Strategy in Promoting Disaster Awareness in Caribbean Multicultural Societies: The Disaster Awareness Game |
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Virginia Clerveaux, Balfour Spence, and Toshitaka Katada |
Paper: | pp. 334-341 | ||
Recent Peat Fire Activity in the Mega Rice Project Area, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia |
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Erianto Indra Putra, Hiroshi Hayasaka, Hidenori Takahashi, and Aswin Usup |
Paper: | pp. 342-350 | ||
Damage to Seisho Bypass due to Storm Waves During Typhoon 0709 |
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Takaaki Uda, Toshiro San-nami, and Toshinori Ishikawa |
No.4
(Aug)
Special Issue on Volcanic Disasters
Information & Communications
Special Issue on Volcanic Disasters
Editorial: | p. 251 | |
Volcanic Disasters |
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Toshitsugu Fujii and Kazuhiro Ishihara | ||
The volcanic disasters are quite variable depending on the nature of the volcanic eruptions, the degrees of land-use surrounding the volcanic areas and preparedness against the eruptions. In order to mitigate the volcanic disasters, therefore, multidisciplinary approach is required. The International Volcanic Conference, ``Cities on Volcanoes 5," held in Shimabara Japan on the November 19-23, 2007 encouraged a wide range of people who are engaged in the volcanic disaster mitigation to gather to discuss topics related to volcanic eruptions and their hazards. The aim of this conference was to evaluate and improve mitigation measures, emergency management, and all required to successfully confront volcanic crises in densely populated area and to recover from any devastation. As the main topics discussed during the conference is quite adequate for the aim of this journal, this special issue tried to include papers read at the conference as many as possible. For the mitigation of the volcanic disasters, several different approaches should be included. Volcano monitoring through observation is the basis for most eruption forecasts and other measures for volcanic disaster mitigation. Impacts on human health and sustainability in volcanic areas in the fields of air and water pollution are also important issues to be included in the management of volcanic hazards. The practical lessons learned through the case histories of actual events should be shared to prepare for and respond to volcano crises that may affect communities. Hiroaki Takahashi proposes a method to estimate the real-time eruption magnitude that might be utilized to judge the duration of eruption in the early stage of eruption. Yoshikazu Kikawada et al. summarize arsenic pollution of rivers originated from the Kusatsu volcanic region. Tsuneomi Kagiyama and Yuichi Morita discuss the strategy to understand the preparing process of caldera forming eruption as a first step to assess the risk of gigantic eruption. Hiroshi Ikeya describes the prevention works executed by the central and local governments during and after the Mt. Unzen 1990-1995 eruption. Harry J. R. Ke...<more> |
Paper: | pp. 252-260 | ||
Real-Time Eruption Magnitude Estimation from Far-Field Geodetic Data: A Proposal for Volcanic Early Warning |
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Hiroaki Takahashi |
Paper: | pp. 261-269 | ||
Arsenic Originating in Kusatsu Hot Springs, Gunma, Japan, and Arsenic Pollution Status of Kusatsu Rivers |
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Yoshikazu Kikawada, Satoshi Kawai, Kazuhiko Shimada, and Takao Oi |
Paper: | pp. 270-275 | ||
First Steps in Understanding Caldera Forming Eruptions |
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Tsuneomi Kagiyama and Yuichi Morita |
Paper: | pp. 276-283 | ||
The Heisei Eruption of Mt. Unzen-Fugendake and Measures Against Volcanic Disasters |
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Hiroshi Ikeya |
Paper: | pp. 284-296 | ||
Ruapehu Lahar New Zealand 18 March 2007: Lessons for Hazard Assessment and Risk Mitigation 1995-2007 |
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Harry J. R. Keys and Paul M. Green |
Paper: | pp. 297-304 | ||
Mitigation Systems by Hazard Maps, Mitigation Plans, and Risk Analyses Regarding Volcanic Disasters in Japan |
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Yoichi Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Fukushima, Xinghai Jin, Motoo Ukawa Teruko Sato, and Yayoi Hotta |
Information & Communications
News: | pp. 305-306 | ||
Development of Disaster Management Robots for Use in Investigating Nuclear Accidents |
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Editorial Office |
No.3
(Jun)
Special Issue on Extinction of Organisms
Special Issue on Extinction of Organisms
Editorial: | p. 165 | |
Extinction of Organisms |
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Hiroyoshi Higuchi and Hideaki Karaki | ||
Plants and animals are declining or becoming extinct in many parts of the world. They include both well-known species such as the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and the crested ibis (Nipponia nippon) and once common land snails, fireflies and small migratory birds. Factors leading to population decline or extinction include habitat destruction, chemical pollution, alien species, poaching, infectious disease, and global warming. In addition to their individual adverse impacts, these factors often overlap or interconnect in time and space, compounding their effects. In limited areas isolated by habitat destruction, for example, alien species and global warming more easily cause local populations to decline and become extinct. There are also natural disasters such as volcanic activity and meteors that diminish or exterminate flora and fauna populations. However, extinction of species and groups sometimes give an opportunity for other species and groups to occupy vacant niche and similar life styles, which may lead to adaptive radiation in evolution. Organisms have repeated such evolution and extinction throughout geological history. This special issue focuses on the extinction of plants and animals resulting from both human activity and natural disasters. In the first of seven articles, Hisashi Nagata reviews the history of extinction and the natural and human factors involved. Kazuto Kawakami looks at the impact of alien species on current ecosystems in the Ogasawara Islands, demonstrating interrelationships among different plant and animal species and pointing out what we could do about island ecosystem conservation and management. Haruo Ogi discusses the effects of fisheries by-catch on sea birds. TatsuyaKunisue and Shinsuke Tanabe detail the effects of chemical pollution on wild animals. Both factors are important in conserving biodiversity and in maintaining industries such as marine fisheries. Kazuya Ashizawa et al. focus on the population decline and extinction of plants growing along dry river beds and becoming rare as a result of human activities changing the structure of natural rivers. Yunsh...<more> |
Review: | pp. 166-173 | ||
Extinction, the Causes of Extinction and the Conservation of Biodiversity |
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Hisashi Nagata |
Review: | pp. 174-186 | ||
Threats to Indigenous Biota from Introduced Species on the Bonin Islands, Southern Japan |
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Kazuto Kawakami |
Review: | pp. 187-195 | ||
International and National Problems in Fisheries Seabird By-Catch |
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Haruo Ogi |
Review: | pp. 196-205 | ||
Contamination Status and Toxicological Implications of Persistent Toxic Substances in Avian Species |
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Tatsuya Kunisue and Shinsuke Tanabe |
Review: | pp. 206-215 | ||
Decreasing Processes and Conservation of Floodplain Species |
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Kazuya Ashizawa, Hisako Okada, and Noboru Kuramoto |
Review: | pp. 216-225 | ||
Conservation and Management of the Asian Crested Ibis in China |
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Yunshan Su |
Paper: | pp. 226-235 | ||
Destruction and Recovery of Vegetation Caused by the 2000-Year Eruption on Miyake-Jima Island, Japan |
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Takashi Kamijo, Minami Kawagoe, Taku Kato, Yutaka Kiyohara, Miyuki Matsuda, Keiko Hashiba, and Kazunori Shimada |
No.2
(Apr)
Special Issue on Climate Change (Part 2)
Special Issue on Climate Change (Part 2)
Editorial: | p. 97 | |
Climate Change (Part 2) |
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Hideaki Karaki and Syunsuke Ikeda | ||
Global warming precipitated by human activity in turn affects plants and animals in addition to human life. This special issue on Climate Change (Part 2) presents two reviews on the biological effects of global warming. Higuchi discusses how plants have started to bloom, leaf, and bear fruits earlier than 30 years ago. Birds have started laying eggs earlier than 25 years ago and migrating and singing -- both related to breeding -- earlier than before. Other changes include a shift in the ranges of some plants and animals northward or to higher elevations. One problem resulting from these changes are distortions or mismatches in biological interactions such as predation, pollination, seed dispersion, and parasitism because changes in phenology and habitation ranges vary by species and groups. newpage Global warming is thus also affecting biodiversity and changing ecosystem structures and functioning. In the second review, Kobayashi et al. show how global warming is changing the habitation range of disease-transmitting insects such as mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas. Because insects are cold-blooded, their activities are strongly influenced by environmental temperature. Changes in the distribution of disease-transmitting "vector" insects in turn change the distribution of disease. Summarizing his review, Higuchi wrote that "From a cynical point of view, it could be said that we are currently making an experiment on a global scale to investigate when and how our warming of the entire globe will affect the natural world and our own lifestyles." |
Review: | pp. 98-104 | ||
Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity |
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Hiroyoshi Higuchi |
Review: | pp. 105-112 | ||
Global Warming and Vector-borne Infectious Diseases |
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Mutsuo Kobayashi, Osamu Komagata, and Naoko Nihei |
Review: | pp. 113-118 | ||
Great Water Temperature Changes of 1.5C per Decade in Tokyo Bay, Japan - its Causes and Consequences - |
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Tetsuo Yanagi |
Review: | pp. 119-130 | ||
Past Evaluation and Future Projection of Sea Level Rise Related to Climate Change Around Japan |
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Sin-Iti Iwasaki, Wataru Sasaki, and Tomonori Matsuura |
Review: | pp. 131-141 | ||
Impacts of Recent Climate Change on Flood Disaster and Preventive Measures |
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Hideo Oshikawa, Akihiro Hashimoto, Kenichi Tsukahara, and Toshimitsu Komatsu |
Survey Report: | pp. 143-149 | ||
Factors Associated with Hurricane Preparedness: Results of a Pre-Hurricane Assessment |
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Jennifer Horney, Cynthia Snider, Sandra Malone, Laura Gammons, and Steve Ramsey |
No.1
(Feb)
Special Issue on Climate Change (Part 1)
Special Issue on Climate Change (Part 1)
Editorial: | p. 3 | |
Climate Change (Part 1) |
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Akimasa Sumi | ||
Climate change due to global warming is one of the most urgent issues for the society in the 21st century. It is anticipated that the climate change causes various impacts to our society such as natural disasters, food and water shortage, new diseases, and so on. Especially, natural disasters will give strong damage to the infrastructure of our society. When we think natural disaster, we tend to think the earthquake causes severe damage to the society, however, in reality, disaster associated with heavy rainfall is more severe. In short, changes of patterns and intensity of the precipitation is considered to cause severe impacts to the society. Precipitation is realized in a cloud system, which is 10 km scale. This cannot be resolved in the large-scale atmospheric model, which is used to the present numerical weather prediction (NWP) and global warming simulation. Therefore, we have to interpret information given by the large-scale NWP model and climate model. For that purpose, we need knowledge about the convection system and its interaction with the large-scale circulation. In this volume, papers relating to the understanding of convection in the present climate and the change in the future climate will be presented. A new possibility of simulating a convective system is also presented. I hope that these papers may help you to take an action to mitigate and adapt the disaster. |
Review: | pp. 4-14 | ||
Global Warming Projection by an Atmospheric Global Model with 20-km Grid |
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Shoji Kusunoki, Jun Yoshimura, Hiromasa Yoshimura, Ryo Mizuta, Kazuyoshi Oouchi, and Akira Noda |
Review: | pp. 15-24 | ||
Effects of Global Warming on Heavy Rainfall During the Baiu Season Projected by a Cloud-System-Resolving Model |
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Masaomi Nakamura, Sachie Kaneda, Yasutaka Wakazuki, Chiashi Muroi, Akihiro Hashimoto, Teruyuki Kato, Akira Noda, Masanori Yoshizaki, and Kazuaki Yasunaga |
Review: | pp. 25-32 | ||
Maximum Potential Intensity of Tropical Cyclones Derived from Numerical Experiments Using the Community Climate System Model (CCSM3) |
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Junichi Tsutsui |
Review: | pp. 33-38 | ||
Numerical Simulations of Heavy Rainfalls by a Global Cloud-Resolving Model |
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Masaki Satoh |
Review: | pp. 39-50 | ||
Potential Changes in Extreme Events Under Global Climate Change |
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Koji Dairaku, Seita Emori, and Hironori Higashi |
Review: | pp. 51-60 | ||
Long-Term Changes in Precipitation in Japan |
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Fumiaki Fujibe |
Review: | pp. 61-68 | ||
Mesoscale Precipitation Systems Along the Meiyu/Baiu Front and Future Expectation for Research Radar and Weather Radar Network |
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Hiroshi Uyeda |
Review: | pp. 69-77 | ||
Convective Activity and Moisture Variation During Field Experiment MISMO in the Equatorial Indian Ocean |
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Kunio Yoneyama and Yukari N. Takayabu |
Review: | pp. 78-88 | ||
HARIMAU Radar-Profiler Network over the Indonesian Maritime Continent: A GEOSS Early Achievement for Hydrological Cycle and Disaster Prevention |
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Manabu D. Yamanaka, Hiroyuki Hashiguchi, Shuichi Mori, Pei-Ming Wu, Fadli Syamsudin, Timbul Manik, Hamada Jun-Ichi, Masayuki K. Yamamoto , Masayuki Kawashima, Yasushi Fujiyoshi, Namiko Sakurai, Masayuki Ohi, Ryuichi Shirooka, Masaki Katsumata, Yoshiaki Shibagaki, Toyoshi Shimomai, Erlansyah, Wawan Setiawan, Bambang Tejasukmana, Yusuf S. Djajadihardja, and Jana T. Anggadiredja |
Vol.2 (2007)
No.6
(Dec)
Special Issue on Long-term Recovery Process
Special Issue on Long-term Recovery Process
Editorial: | pp. 413-418 | |
Long-term Recovery from Recent Disasters in Japan and the United States |
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Haruo Hayashi | ||
In this issue of Journal of Disaster Research, we introduce nine papers on societal responses to recent catastrophic disasters with special focus on long-term recovery processes in Japan and the United States. As disaster impacts increase, we also find that recovery times take longer and the processes for recovery become more complicated. On January 17th of 1995, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit the Hanshin and Awaji regions of Japan, resulting in the largest disaster in Japan in 50 years. In this disaster which we call the Kobe earthquake hereafter, over 6,000 people were killed and the damage and losses totaled more than 100 billion US dollars. The long-term recovery from the Kobe earthquake disaster took more than ten years to complete. One of the most important responsibilities of disaster researchers has been to scientifically monitor and record the long-term recovery process following this unprecedented disaster and discern the lessons that can be applied to future disasters. The first seven papers in this issue present some of the key lessons our research team learned from the studying the long-term recovery following the Kobe earthquake disaster. We have two additional papers that deal with two recent disasters in the United States – the terrorist attacks on World Trade Center in New York on September 11 of 2001 and the devastation of New Orleans by the 2005 Hurricane Katrina and subsequent levee failures. These disasters have raised a number of new research questions about long-term recovery that US researchers are studying because of the unprecedented size and nature of these disasters’ impacts. Mr. Mammen’s paper reviews the long-term recovery processes observed at and around the World Trade Center site over the last six years. Ms. Johnson’s paper provides a detailed account of the protracted reconstruction planning efforts in the city of New Orleans to illustrate a set of sufficient and necessary conditions for successful recovery. All nine papers in this issue share a theoretical framework for long-term recovery processes which we developed based first upon the lessons learned from the Kob...<more> |
Review: | pp. 419-430 | ||
Nishinomiya Built Environment Database and its Findings |
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Kei Horie*, Norio Maki**, and Haruo Hayashi** |
Review: | pp. 431-444 | ||
Damage Scale and Long-term Recovery Plans in Japan: Working with Local People |
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Norio Maki* , Haruo Hayashi* , and Keiko Tamura** |
Review: | pp. 445-452 | ||
Monitoring Recovery Using Energy Consumption Indices |
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Masasuke Takashima* and Haruo Hayashi** |
Review: | pp. 453-464 | ||
Quantitative Evaluation of Recovery Process in Disaster-Stricken Areas Using Statistical Data |
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Yuka Karatani* and Haruo Hayashi** |
Review: | pp. 465-474 | ||
Recovery and Reconstruction Calendar |
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Reo Kimura |
Review: | pp. 475-483 | ||
Defining Recovery: 7-Element Model |
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Keiko Tamura |
Review: | pp. 484-501 | ||
Long-term Life Recovery Processes Among Survivors of the 1995 Kobe Earthquake: 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2005 Life Recovery Social Survey Results |
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Shigeo Tatsuki |
Review: | pp. 502-516 | ||
Recovery Efforts in New York After 9/11 |
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David Mammen |
Review: | pp. 517-529 | ||
New Orleans' Recovery Following Hurricane Katrina: Observations on Local Catastrophe Recovery Management |
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Laurie A. Johnson |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 531-536 | ||
Design Tsunami Forces for Onshore Structures |
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Harry Yeh |
No.5
(Oct)
Special Issue on Recovery from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
Special Issue on Recovery from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
Editorial: | p. 329 | |
Recovery from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake |
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Yujiro Ogawa | ||
The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995 revealed the vulnerability of modern cities to earthquakes, not in the damage to structures but also to the lives of people, local communities, and the economy. As a result, recovery and reconstruction have become indispensable to all aspects of modern cities. With the earthquake almost 12 years in the past and recovery and reconstruction almost completed, it is time for us to look back on the process. This issue (JDR Vol.2 No.5) features a roundup of post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction, including viewpoints on the challenges faced in the wake of massive damage and injury, destruction of over 400,000 damaged houses and infrastructure lifeline facilities such as water, electricity, and gas, and the collapse and rebuilding of local communities and the economy. This issue follows recovery and reconstruction and provides information on processes that could be useful in the case of a large earthquake in the future. |
Review: | pp. 330-334 | ||
Lessons on Reconstruction Strategies from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake |
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Yoshiteru Murosaki |
Review: | pp. 335-348 | ||
Problems in Housing Restoration After the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake |
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Kenji Koshiyama |
Review: | pp. 349-358 | ||
Review and Recommendations for Lifeline Recovery and Reconstruction |
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Shiro Takada* and Hirofumi Ito** |
Review: | pp. 359-371 | ||
Machizukuri (Community Development) for Recovery Whose Leading Role Citizens Play |
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Ikuo Kobayashi |
Review: | pp. 372-380 | ||
Economic Problems During Recovery from the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake |
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Shingo Nagamatsu |
Regular Papers
Topic: | pp. 381-383 | ||
Reference List Related to Recovery of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake |
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No.4
(Aug)
Special Issue on Fire Disasters
Special Issue on Fire Disasters
Editorial: | p. 235 | |
Targeting Fire Damage Relief |
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Yoshiteru Murosaki and Yuji Hasemi | ||
The relationship between human beings and fire is older than legend, making fire the potential disaster closest to men. This makes the mitigation of fire damage an ongoing community concern. The nature of fire risk has been changing with time due to changes in urban structure, the societal environment, and energy consumption. These changes are related to technological progress such as the development of fireproof materials and firefighting techniques. Technological advances such as the development of new materials and huge space may trigger the emergence of the new fire risks. The terrorist-triggered World Trade Center conflagrations in New York and the accident-induced Windsor Building fire in Madrid in 2004 are high-rise examples of this new vulnerability. The subway line fire that broke out in Daegu, Republic of Korea, in 2003 is yet another case -- this one subterranean. An example in new-material risks is the outbreak at solid-waste fuel facilities in Mie, Japan, in 2003. Automobile fuel batteries using hydrogen are yet another case of new risks. Ironically, technology developed to solve global environmental issues such as waste recycling are another example of new fire risks. Advancing hand in hand with these new risks are the age-old examples of housing fires in urban areas and structural blazes in forests and fields. Regional differences are a factor, especially urban fires in Japan's densely populated wooden residential areas and wildfires in populated forests of Australia and Russia. Studies on fire prevention must provide solutions to mitigating such risks -- both old and new. Ambitious research in this field is demonstrated in the papers reported in this special issue - articles that readers are about to find exciting, informative, and endlessly interesting! |
Review: | pp. 236-249 | ||
High-Rise Building Fires |
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Mamoru Kohno |
Review: | pp. 250-258 | ||
Survey of Literature on Escape from Underground Spaces |
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Atsuko Tanaka |
Review: | pp. 259-264 | ||
Accidents at Hazardous Installations in Japan |
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Takashi Tsuruda |
Review: | pp. 265-275 | ||
Recent Large-Scale Fires in Boreal and Tropical Forests |
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Hiroshi Hayasaka |
Review: | pp. 276-283 | ||
Risk of Fire Spread in Densely Built Environments – A Review Emphasizing Cities in Japan – |
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Keisuke Himoto |
Review: | pp. 284-291 | ||
Protecting Area of Traditional Wooden Construction from Fires Due to Earthquakes Using Local Water – Plan and Implementation of the Project on Environmental Water Supply System for Disaster Prevention – |
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Takeyuki Okubo |
Review: | pp. 292-297 | ||
Lessons from Japanese Experience with Fire Disasters in Public Buildings |
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Yuji Hasemi |
Review: | pp. 298-302 | ||
The Great Hanshin Earthquake and Fire |
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Yoshiteru Murosaki |
Material: | pp. 303-312 | ||
Experiment for Urban Great Fire |
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Suminao Murakami |
Topic: | pp. 313-322 | ||
Chronology of Major Fire Disasters in Japan |
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No.3
(Jun)
Special Issue on Meteorological Disasters and Water Disasters in Urban Areas
Special Issue on Meteorological Disasters and Water Disasters in Urban Areas
Editorial: | p. 133 | |
Meteorological Disasters and Water Disasters in Urban Areas |
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Nobuo Shuto, Syunsuke Ikeda, Shinji Egashira | ||
Immediately after World War II, economic and human losses due to water disasters were enormous in Japan. In the years of 1947 and 1953, for example, economic loss reach 10% of personal income, and the number of lives lost in the 1959 Isewan Typhoon exceeded 5,000. The Japanese government then implemented successive 5-year flood control plans that dramatically reduced such disasters. Economic loss by flooding now is on the order of 0.2% of personal income, and fewer than 100 lives are lost per year. The situation has begun changing in the last decade, however, ostensibly due to global warming and local climatic change such as the heat island phenomenon. The most typical change is the increase in heavy precipitation. Meteorologists sometimes call 1997 the turning point in climate change. The year 1998 was one of extreme heavy rain in Japan, with downpours exceeding 100 mm/h occurring 10 times and those of 50 mm/h almost 440 times. The record for 50 mm/h was broken in 2004, when some 470 such downpours occurred. Another marked change has been the increase in the fluctuation of precipitation, suggesting that drought may follow floods as a typical pattern portending major water disasters in the future. Lifestyle changes are another factor inducing water disaster. Increased urban populations inherently induce concentrated land use, paving of land surfaces, hazardous living conditions, etc. Frequent urban flooding and high underground use in Japan increases the danger for inundations. Wind disasters are also increasing. In September 2006, a tornado in Nobeoka, Kyushu, killed 3 people. In November 2006, another tornado struck Saroma, Hokkaido, killing 9 workers when a construction company's meeting room was destroyed. Polluted material transported long distances by wind is a big problem in Asia. Smoke from forest fires and chemical pollutants increasingly endanger people outside of the countries of origin, spreading throughout the continent and to islands beyond. This issue reviews recent meteorological and hydrographic disasters in urban areas that threaten to become major problems in the 21st Century. |
Review: | pp. 134-142 | ||
Water Problems in Central Asia |
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Yoshinobu Kitamura, Osamu Kozan, Kengo Sunada, and Satoru Oishi |
Review: | pp. 143-152 | ||
Urban Flooding and Measures |
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Keiichi Toda |
Review: | pp. 153-162 | ||
Snow Damage in Contemporary Japan – Progress and Measures – |
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Natsuo Numano |
Review: | pp. 163-172 | ||
Recent Trends and Future Projections in Asian Air Pollution |
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Itsushi Uno, Toshimasa Ohara, Kazuyo Yamaji, and Jun-ichi Kurokawa |
Review: | pp. 173-189 | ||
Remediation of Contaminated Land |
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Masashi Kamon |
Survey Report: | pp. 190-199 | ||
Examples of Recent Floods in Europe |
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Donald Knight and Paul Samuels |
Review: | pp. 200-227 | ||
Chronology of Major Meteorological Disasters |
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No.2
(Apr)
Special Issue on Biological Disasters
Special Issue on Biological Disasters
Editorial: | p. 65 | |
Biological Disasters |
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Hideaki Karaki | ||
Looking back on history, we find that human beings have suffered from many biological disasters. Most of these have been infectious diseases such as cholera, plague, and small pox. Medical advances have brought vaccines and other specific cures enabling us to avoid damages from some of infectious diseases, yet many remain to be conquered. Highly pathogenic avian influenza, a disease in birds occurring repeatedly since ancient times, is now found worldwide. A World Health Organization (WHO) announced on February 15, 2007 that of 273 bird flu victims in 11 countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, 166 have died. Since bird flu does not spread easily to human beings, the number of victims is limited. Once it mutates to a new strain of virus, however, it may be transmitted so easily that it could cause a large number of deaths. Many such cases have actually occurred in the past. The worst historically recorded ones involved Spanish flu, which started in 1918 during World War I among French and German soldiers and spread globally, resulting in 20 million to 60 million deaths. Spanish flu - said to have been named after its effects on the Spanish royal family - is known to have caused the highest number of deaths of any single infection. More than 30 types of emerging infectious diseases have recently been discovered including Lassa virus, Ebola virus, and Helicobacter pylori which causes stomach ulcers and stomach cancer. Among them, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, has produced 30 million victims globally since its discovery in Los Angeles in 1981. Many infectious diseases are also reemerging after having once been decreased. These include malaria, plague, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and influenza, according to WHO. Rabies is another such case that alone kills 50,000 people a year worldwide. Even in Japan, where no rabies cases have originated since 1956, two victims contracted rabies and died within the last year after being bitten during trips to Southeast Asia. Besides microorganisms or viruses, abnormal protein named 'prion' was found to cause disease. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BS...<more> |
Review: | pp. 66-70 | ||
Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases - Past, Present and Future |
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Yoshifumi Takeda |
Review: | pp. 71-80 | ||
AIDS: How Do We Overcome This Social or Biodisaster? |
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Tsutomu Murakami and Naoki Yamamoto |
Review: | pp. 81-89 | ||
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in Japan How was the “Blanket Testing Myth” Created? |
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Hideaki Karaki |
Review: | pp. 90-93 | ||
The Rabies Prevention and the Risk Management in Japan |
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Satoshi Inoue |
Review: | pp. 94-98 | ||
Avian Influenza Occurred in Japan |
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Koichi Otsuki |
Review: | pp. 99-109 | ||
Countermeasures Against Biological Terrorism (Bioterrorism) |
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Sumio Shinoda |
Topic: | pp. 110-113 | ||
Chronology of Major Global Diseases |
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Topic: | pp. 115-126 | ||
Wild Birds and Avian Influenza |
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Editorial Office |
No.1
(Feb)
Special Issue on Water Disasters
Special Issue on Water Disasters
Review: | pp. 3-10 | ||
Flood Disaster in Japan |
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Kazuya Inoue |
Review: | pp. 11-18 | ||
Review of Research Related to Sediment Disaster Mitigation |
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Shinji Egashira |
Review: | pp. 19-28 | ||
A Century of Countermeasures Against Storm Surges and Tsunamis in Japan |
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Nobuo Shuto |
Review: | pp. 29-36 | ||
Beach Erosion Arising from Artificial Land Modification |
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Takaaki Uda |
Paper: | pp. 37-43 | ||
Typhoon 0410 Causes Sediment Disaster in Tokushima Prefecture |
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Yoshifumi Satofuka and Takahisa Mizuyama |
Paper: | pp. 44-49 | ||
Damage and Reconstruction at Okushiri Town Caused by the 1993 Hokkaido Nansei-Oki Earthquake Tsunami |
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Nobuo Shuto |
Survey Report: | pp. 50-53 | ||
Lessons Learned from Tokai Heavy Rainfall |
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Akihiro Tominaga |
Vol.1 (2006)
No.3
(Dec)
Reviews on Progresses of Earthquake Engineering in Japan (Part 3)
Special Issue on Overseas Earthquakes
Reviews on Progresses of Earthquake Engineering in Japan (Part 3)
Review: | pp. 341-356 | ||
Seismic Design Codes for Buildings in Japan |
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Hiroshi Kuramoto |
Short Note: | p. 357 | ||
A Short Note for Dr. Watabe’s Review in 1974 |
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Hiroshi Kuramoto |
Material: | pp. 358-377 | ||
Aseismic Structural Systems for Buildings |
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Makoto Watabe |
Review: | pp. 378-389 | ||
Seismic Analysis of Underground Structures |
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Kazuhiko Kawashima |
Short Note: | p. 390 | ||
Introduction to Dr. Okubo's Paper Entitled "Aseismic Considerations of Transportation Systems" |
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Kazuhiko Kawashima |
Material: | pp. 391-406 | ||
Aseismic Considerations of Transportation Systems |
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Tadayoshi Okubo |
Review: | pp. 407-414 | ||
Earthquake Observation and Strong Motion Seismology in Japan from 1975 to 2005 |
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Kazuki Koketsu and Hiroe Miyake |
Short Note: | p. 415 | ||
Introduction to Professor Usami's Review in 1974 |
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Kazuki Koketsu |
Material: | pp. 416-433 | ||
Earthquake Studies and the Earthquake Prediction System in Japan |
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Tatsuo Usami |
Special Issue on Overseas Earthquakes
Survey Report: | pp. 435-443 | ||
Damage to Civil Engineering Structures by Oct. 8, 2005 Kashmir Earthquake and Recommendations for Recovery and Reconstruction |
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Ömer Aydan and Masanori Hamada |
Survey Report: | pp. 444-448 | ||
Rebuilding Brick Masonry Housing Following the Mid-Java Earthquake Disaster of May 27, 2006 |
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Masasuke Takashima and Satoshi Tanaka |
Topic: | pp. 449-451 | ||
Book Review of “On Strong Motion Seismology” (in Japanese) written and edited by Hiroaki Yamanaka, published by University of Tokyo Press |
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Editorial Office |
Topic: | pp. 452-487 | ||
Chronology of Earthquakes |
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No.2
(Oct)
Reviews on Progresses of Earthquake Engineering in Japan (Part 2)
Reports on Transportation Disasters
Reviews on Progresses of Earthquake Engineering in Japan (Part 2)
Review: | pp. 177-188 | ||
Earthquake Damage to Industrial Facilities and Development of Seismic and Vibration Control Technology – Based on Experience from the 1995 Kobe (Hanshin-Awaji) Earthquake – |
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Kohei Suzuki |
Short Note: | p. 189 | ||
A Short Note for Dr. Shibata's Review in 1975 |
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Kohei Suzuki |
Material: | pp. 190-200 | ||
Anti-Earthquake Design of Industrial Facilities |
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Heki Shibata |
Review: | pp. 201-209 | ||
Recent Seismic Microzoning Maps in Japan |
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Saburoh Midorikawa |
Short Note: | p. 210 | ||
A Short Note for Dr. Kobayashi's Review in 1974 |
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Saburoh Midorikawa |
Material: | pp. 211-225 | ||
Seismic Microzoning for Urban Planning |
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Hiroyoshi Kobayashi |
Review: | pp. 226-243 | ||
Recent Developments in Liquefaction Research Learned from Earthquake Damage |
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Takaji Kokusho |
Short Note: | p. 244 | ||
A Short Note for Dr. Ishihara's Review in 1974 |
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Takaji Kokusho |
Material: | pp. 245-261 | ||
Liquefaction of Subsurface Soils During Earthquakes |
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Kenji Ishihara |
Review: | pp. 262-271 | ||
Seismic Design of Bridges After 1995 Kobe Earthquake |
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Kazuhiko Kawashima |
Short Note: | pp. 272-273 | ||
Introduction to Dr. Iwasaki’s Paper Entitled “Response Analysis of Civil Engineering Structures Subjected to Earthquake Motions” |
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Kazuhiko Kawashima |
Material: | pp. 274-295 | ||
Response Analysis of Civil Engineering Structures Subjected to Earthquake Motions |
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Toshio Iwasaki |
Reports on Transportation Disasters
Survey Report: | pp. 297-312 | ||
Fukuchiyama Line Train Derailment |
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Prepared by Editorial Office |
Survey Report: | pp. 313-319 | ||
Private Company's Admirable Assistance in Derailment Attracts Nationwide Attention |
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Prepared by Editorial Office |
Survey Report: | pp. 320-324 | ||
Teito Rapid Transit Authority's Hibiya Line Derailment |
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Prepared by Editorial Office |
Regular Papers
Review: | pp. 325-333 | ||
Floods - Are We Prepared? |
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Donald Knight, Shuyou Cao, Huasheng Liao, Paul Samuels, Nigel Wright, Xingnian Liu, and Akihiro Tominaga |
No.1
(Aug)
Congratulatory Message
Reviews on Progresses of Earthquake Engineering in Japan (Part 1)
Special Issue on Indian Ocean Tsunami
Congratulatory Message
Message: | p. 3 | |
Message from Editors-in-Chief |
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Suminao Murakami and Katsuki Takiguchi |
Message: | p. 4 | |
Message to the “Journal of Disaster Research” |
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Christopher Arnold |
Message: | p. 5 | |
In Celebration of the New “Journal of Disaster Research” |
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Joseph Penzien |
Message: | pp. 6-7 | |
Thinking of Disasters |
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Minoru Matsuo |
Editorial: | pp. 8-10 | |
Reviews on “Progresses of Earthquake Engineering in Japan” |
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Katsuki Takiguchi | ||
It seems that when human beings attain one thing, it is at the simultaneous loss of something else. Upon developing recording devices, we lose our ability to memorize. Upon creating convenient computers, we lose our ability to calculate. What, then, do progress and development really mean? In considering this, time spans become especially important. How are we to properly understand the progress and changes that have occurred in the last 3 decades in light of disaster prevention and reduction? Advances in communication technologies and developments in transportation system seem somehow to have accelerated the speed at which we live and at which our lives pass. How are we to balance the changes between progress in disaster prevention/reduction and the increasing potential risks disasters can bring due to our increasingly complex society? It seems certain that one thing has not advanced at all – the human capacity for foresight. Let us consider the span of 3 decades from another perspective: Henry Petroski, in his Design Paradigms – Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering – (Cambridge University Press, 1994), introduces the theory that every 30 years, a bridge falls – within the span of 30 years, succession in wisdom dies out. Articles published more than 30 years ago give us a unique opportunity to assess their foresight, especially those written by persons in leadership positions at the time. In the 3 years from 1973 to 1975, the journal Technocrat, published by Fuji Technology Press Ltd., presented 9 review articles on earthquake disaster prevention. They were all written by leaders in the field. An editorial reviewing urban disaster prevention in Japan was also published in Toshi bousai keikakuron (Urban Disaster Prevention Planning) (Dobunshoin) in 1986 – roughly a decade later. These 10 articles will be republished in Vol. 1 Nos. 1-3 in this journal, together with new articles reviewing progress and development afterward. This unique series will consist of 18 articles as shown in the following list. Don’t miss it! Katsuki Takiguchi Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Reviews on Progresses of Earthquake Engineering in Japan (Part 1)
Review: | pp. 11-24 | ||
Earthquake Disaster Mitigation and Earthquake Engineering in Japan – A Review with a Special Emphasis on the Kobe Earthquake and its Impact |
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Tsuneo Katayama |
Short Note: | p. 25 | ||
A Short Note for Dr. Omote’s Review in 1973 |
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Tsuneo Katayama |
Material: | pp. 26-45 | ||
Earthquake Disasters and Earthquake Engineering in Japan |
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Syun'itiro Omote |
Review: | pp. 46-71 | ||
Development of Urban Disaster Prevention Systems in Japan – from the Mid-1980s |
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Itsuki Nakabayashi |
Short Note: | p. 72 | ||
A Short Note for Dr. Murakami’s Review in 1986 |
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Itsuki Nakabayashi |
Material: | pp. 73-94 | ||
Trends in Disaster Management Measures in Post World War II in Japan |
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Suminao Murakami |
Material: | pp. 95-102 | ||
Urban Renewal for Earthquake-Proof Systems |
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Shunichi Sato |
Special Issue on Indian Ocean Tsunami
Survey Report: | pp. 103-115 | ||
Damage and Height Distribution of Sumatra Earthquake-Tsunami of December 26, 2004, in Banda Aceh City and its Environs |
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Yoshinobu Tsuji, Yuichiro Tanioka, Hideo Matsutomi, Yuichi Nishimura, Takanobu Kamataki, Yoshikane Murakami, Tsutomu Sakakiyama, Andrew Moore, Guy Gelfenbaum, Sindhu Nugroho, Budi Waluyo, Inyoman Sukanta, Rahmat Triyono, and Yuichi Namegaya |
Survey Report: | pp. 116-122 | ||
Banda Aceh Overview – After One Year Tsunami |
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Ir. Muwardi Nurdin |
Survey Report: | pp. 123-130 | ||
Field Survey of the Tsunami Caused by the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of December 26, 2004 and the Restoration of Impacted Inland Water Bodies in Sri Lanka |
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Anil C. Wijeyewickrema, Shusaku Inoue, Priyantha Gunaratna, Manoj Madurapperuma, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Miura, and Toru Sekiguchi |
Review: | pp. 131-135 | ||
Global Disaster: The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami |
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Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura, Kazuhisa Goto, Hideaki Yanagisawa, and Yoko Iwabuchi |
Paper: | pp. 136-141 | ||
Excitation Process of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Determined from Seismic Fault Rupture |
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Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Hitoshi Mikada, and Masanori Suzuki |
Paper: | pp. 142-147 | ||
Wave Dispersion Effect in the Indian Ocean Tsunami |
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Yoshinori Shigihara and Koji Fujima |
Regular Papers
Paper: | pp. 148-156 | ||
Numerical Simulation of Tsunami Inundation in Urban Areas |
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Tetsuya Hiraishi and Tomohiro Yasuda |
Paper: | pp. 157-168 | ||
Study on Oil Spread Caused by the 1964 Niigata Earthquake Tsunami |
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Yoko Iwabuchi , Shunichi Koshimura, and Fumihiko Imamura |