Session outline
 
Human Geosciences(H)
Session Sub Category Social Earth Sciences & Civil/Urban System Sciences(SC)
Session ID H-SC24
Title Human environment and disaster risk
Short title Human environment and disaster risk
Convener Name Tatsuto Aoki
Affiliation School of Regional Development Studies, Kanazawa University
Email kentaoki@staff.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Co-convener 1. Name Yasuhiro Suzuki
Affiliation Nagoya University
Email suzuki@seis.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Co-convener 2. Name Mamoru Koarai
Affiliation Survey Department, College of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Email koarai@gsi.go.jp
Co-convener 3. Name Toshihiko Sugai
Affiliation Department of Natural Environmental Studies, Institute of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Science, The University of Tokyo
Email sugai@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Co-convener 4. Name Hiroshi Une
Affiliation Geospacial Information Authority of Japan
Email hiroune@mb.infoweb.ne.jp
Co-convener 5. Name Yoichi Nakamura
Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Utsunomiya University
Email ynakamu@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Co-convener 6. Name Jun Matsumoto
Affiliation Deaprtment of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Email jun@center.tmu.ac.jp
Co-convener 7. Name Shintaro Goto
Affiliation Department of Environmental Systems
Faculty of GEO-Environmental Science
Rissho University
Email got@ris.ac.jp
Co-convener 8. Name Keitarou Hara
Affiliation Faculty of Informatics, Tokyo University of Information Sciences
Email hara@rsch.tuis.ac.jp
International Symposium No request
Language Japanese
Scope This session discusses disaster risks being inherent in the natural and human environment, which sometimes happen to appear at a disaster, from the viewpoint of not only natural sciences but also social and human sciences. Examples of discussion subjects are as follows: uncertainty of forecasting disaster and problems of huge disaster with low frequency that raised from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the methodology for improving hazard maps, national recovery plans considering probable changes or sustainability of the society, international cooperation for disaster mitigation, problems of active faults or liquefaction, adjusting disaster mitigation plan to the regional characteristics, technical development for supporting disaster prevention, education for the disaster mitigation.
Type of presentation Oral and Poster presentation
Invited papers