Open AccessPromotion of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Collaboration in Disaster Risk Reduction
Author(s) -
Kaoru Takara
Publication year - 2018
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.2018.p1193
Subject(s) - disaster risk reduction , resilience (materials science) , flooding (psychology) , environmental planning , hazard , promotion (chess) , emergency management , general partnership , environmental resource management , geography , political science , environmental science , psychology , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , politics , law , psychotherapist , thermodynamics
This paper describes interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches inevitably necessary for effective disaster risk management, introducing examples involving the tsunami hazard map in Sendai, volcanic eruption in Iceland, and river flooding in Thailand. On the basis of the conversations conducted at the Global Forum on Science and Technology for Disaster Resilience 2017 held at the Science Council of Japan in Tokyo on November 23–25, 2017, this paper summarizes the results of the discussion for further development of these approaches. Some international initiatives are also briefly introduced.