Open AccessTen Years of Pre-Disaster Community Development for Post-Disaster Recovery in Tokyo
Author(s) -
Taro Ichiko
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of disaster research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.332
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1883-8030
pISSN - 1881-2473
DOI - 10.20965/jdr.2012.p0215
Subject(s) - disaster planning , disaster recovery , countermeasure , disaster response , environmental planning , emergency management , disaster mitigation , engineering , computer science , poison control , geography , political science , human factors and ergonomics , medical emergency , medicine , aerospace engineering , operating system , law
Considering about an estimated dreadful damage by earthquakes centered directly under the capital city, the pre-disaster planning for post-disaster recovery is a vital countermeasure. In this paper, those predisaster planning activities were discussed. There are 5 sections. Firstly, backgrounds and early studies are reviewed. Secondly, positions of a pre-disaster planning for post-disaster recovery were discussed from a view of city-planning studies. Thirdly, the “drills for disaster-recovery machizukuri” as the field for machizukuri for post-disaster recovery were analyzes. These drills were mainly methods and activities for pre-disaster planning activities. Fourthly, the efforts made in Nerima Ward for drills are reviewed. Fifthly, the concrete results of the pre-disaster planning for post-disaster recovery are discussed, and finally the future challenges and directions of the pre-disaster planning for post-disaster recovery are mentioned.