Community Practices for Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan
This book presents key lessons from community-based risk-reduction practices in Japan, a country that is often hit by disasters and that also has shown strong resilience in coping with those disasters. Japan has a strong governance system for disaster risk reduction. However, the Kobe earthquake of...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Tokyo :
Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Series: | Disaster Risk Reduction, Methods, Approaches and Practices,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Disaster Risk Reduction and Community Approaches
- Kobe Earthquake: Turning Point of Community-based Risk Reduction in Japan
- Typhoon, Flood and Landslide Related Disasters in Japan: Role of Communities
- Social Capital in Disaster Recovery in Japan: An Overview
- Concepts and Approaches of School-centered Disaster Resilient Communities
- Building Disaster Resilient Community through Healthcare Networking
- Roles of Community Radio in Disaster Management: Reflections from Japan
- Community Development and Disaster Preparedness in a Depopulated Society: Case of Tosashimizu City, Kochi Prefecture
- Traditional Community-based Disaster Management in World Heritage Site of Shirakawa Village
- Community Practices of Transmitting Daily and Disaster Information in Reihoku Area
- Community Resilience after Chuetsu Earthquake in 2004: Extinction or Relocation?
- Issues and Challenges of Temporary Housing in Post 3.11 Kesennuma
- Adapting Fisheries to Climate Change: Community-based and Scientific-oriented Fisheries Management of Saroma Lake, Hokkaido.
