An Overview on Disaster Prevention Research “Urban Disaster Prevention Educational Research Symposium” by Center of Education and Research for Disaster Management (CERD)
Published on Dec 05, 2018
On Thursday, 1 November, “The 5th Urban Disaster Prevention Educational Research Symposium” was held at the Cultural Exchange Room (1FL) in OCU Media Center.
In this symposium results of the past researches based on the collection of papers on urban disaster prevention (Vol.5) summarized by Center of Education and Research for Disaster Management (CERD), were presented by faculty. At the Q & A sessions after each announcement, various questions were raised by the attendants. It was the productive symposium where future tasks for the disaster prevention was reaffirmed.
| Presentation Themes | Presenters |
|---|---|
| 【Keynote Lecture】 Learn from disasters Response of the local governments and corporations to the disasters from Osaka earthquake 2018 to Western Japan floods ～Report on questionnaire survey on effects on business continuity～ |
Tsutomu Korenaga (General Incorporated Association Research Institute Active in Disaster) |
| 【Report on Disaster Action】 Analyzing evacuation behavior of university students in the earthquake centered north of Osaka in 2018 |
Eisuke Ikuta (Graduate School of Human Life Science)/ Muneki Mitamura (Graduate School of Science)/ Takaaki Shigematsu (Graduate School of Engineering) Daisuke Saeki (Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences)/ Yuko Kohmoto (CERD) |
| 【Research Presentation】 Attempts to assessment of uncertainty for real-time prediction of typhoon disasters |
Sota Nakajo (Graduate School of Engineering)/ Yoshito Inamoto (Kumamoto University) |
| People requiring assistance during a disaster (those in need of nursing care and those with visual impairment) as well as supporters’ physical strength and evacuation behavior | Hitoshi Watanabe/Daiki Imai/Akira Ogita/ Kazunobu Okazaki/Hisayo Yokoyama/ Yuta Suzuki (RCUHS-Research Center for Urban Health and Sports), Takahiro Yamaguchi (Graduate School of Medicine), Eisuke Ikuta/ Michio Miyano (Graduate School of Human Life Science) |
| Support for disaster prevention education at schools in Kathmandu, Nepal through conducting disaster prevention city walks and creating hazard maps | Muneki Mitamura (Graduate School of Science) |
| Comparative study on raising awareness of disaster risk in Japanese school education | Ai Nishida (Osaka Gakugei Secondary School)/ Daisuke Yoshida (Graduate School of Engineering)/ Eisuke Ikuta (Graduate School of Human Life Science) |
| Attempts of natural disaster prevention and reduction of the effects of a natural disaster by the emergence of social resilience through performance by a community theatrical group | Yoshiyuki Fukushima (Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences) |
Pictures from the Symposium
